The South East zone of Magodo Residents Association held its second edition of community sports and fun day amidst pomp and pageantry.

Dog meat suya (barbecue) is a common delicacy among the people of Plateau State. It is eaten with burukutu (a local brew), beer, or any other preferred drink. A formal or informal gathering is incomplete without dog meat suya. However, among all the ethnic groups in the state, only the people of Afizere stand out as those who forbid dog meat.

The confessions of President Muhammadu Buhari during penultimate Thursday’s National Executive Committee, NEC meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC about the failed elections under his watch should ordinarily elicit much interest. The president in his speech appeared to be appealing to the grassroots of the party for understanding in the face of the difficult challenges the country has been passing through under a government that promised much change.

Since the defeat by the All Progressive Congress in last year’s general election, members of the Peoples Democratic Party have been forced to an unfamiliar position of being a party in opposition after sixteen years of calling the shots at the federal level. Gradually but steadily, members of the party, especially its leadership have come to accept that the years of dictating the pace of activities in the country are over; at least in the next three years when there would be another elections and the parties will seek the people’s mandate again.

A petrol station is not the place to spend Easter. But that was what happened to millions of Nigerians last week. For many, the entire Easter weekend was devoted to the search of the elusive liquid gold. So it was at Christmas. So it was at New Year. It is beginning to look like the leadership is determined to deny the rest of us the simple pleasures of the festive seasons having taken most other pleasures and conveniences from us. In the midst of all this, the man whose duty it is to ensure we have sufficient fuel for our needs said most undiplomatically that he was not a magician and that our woes would continue a while longer. We had adequate fuel most of last year and the year before. Were his predecessors practicing sorcery or magic?