Following the incessant clashes between herdsmen and farmers across the federation, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration would not tolerate any acts of banditry and criminality. He said that the security agencies in the country had been mandated to adequately deal with such act as it was capable of truncating the peace of the country.

A group, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, claiming to be a breakaway faction of the
Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, emerged, yesterday, backed out of the continued attacks on pipelines by the principal organization, threatening to expose the identities of NDA fighters and their sponsors if the militant group do not cease hostilities.

Even with the calls for his resignation closely reaching crescendo, Speaker Yakubu Dogara of the House of Representatives has said he would not resign. “Resign for what?” He said during an interface with the State House Correspondents at the presidential villa yester-day.

Since the creation of man, man has always wanted to have things his own way. Often, he feels, his ways are the best. Sometimes no matter how well you try to get him to understand the truth (JN 17:17), man will still tell you that he knows best. What man often fails to understand is that, he is a created being, created by someone greater than him. The simple question now is; can the creature be greater than the creator? If your answer is no, then why spend your quality time leaning on your own understanding as opposed to trusting in God, who is your maker and knows the best for you.

Imo State is in the news again and probably for what some concerned citizens and labour leaders called “the wrong reasons”. They have equally not failed to wonder why “obnoxious policies and equally vexatious labour practices should start from the state”.