Every minute, 380 women become pregnant. Some time, 190 women face unplanned or unwanted pregnancy, 110 women experience a pregnancy related complication and another 40 women have unsafe abortion. On average, 116 women die every day in Nigeria from complications of pregnancy, labour or childbirth. Is there no end to these needless troubles?

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State yesterday, declared the Sliver Jubilee celebration of Enugu State, created on August 27, 1991, a solemn moment for the people of the state following last Thursday’s murder of a Catholic Seminarian, Lazarus Nwafor, by herdsmen at Attakwu, in Nkanu West, Local Government Area of Enugu State.

18,000 women are being taken out of poverty in Jigawa State courtesy of a goat multiplication farming programme introduced by Governor Muhammed Badaru Abubakar. The governor is replicating an initiative used by many countries in Africa, Asia and South

So, let us try to consider as dispassionately as we can, on the basis of available data, whether the first military coup was indeed an Igbo coup, as alleged by some writers such as Isama Elaigwu, in Gowon: The Biography of a Soldier-Statesman and Karl Maier, in This House has Fallen Nigeria: in Crisis. But before we do that, certain basic points must be highlighted.

Today, one of the major threats to Nigeria’s economic and social stability is the army of unemployed and underemployed people, especially youths, roaming its cities and villages. Such persons, no doubt, constitute huge security risk to the society, as they are willing tools for mischief-makers and of great concern as indeed it can be likened to a volcano on the verge eruption.