Nigeria’s army is planning a makeover for  the Sambisa Forest, from being the den of Boko Haram terrorists  into a tourist destination.

THE Holy Bible says in Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: Because you have rejected knowledge, l also rejected you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, l also will ignore your children”. Isaiah 5:13 put it slightly different, and this is what it says: “Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst”.

THE Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s spending of $496 million on purchase of Tucano jets without National Assembly’s approval as a flagrant violation of the Constitution.

IMO State chapter of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, has described the state government’s move to recalculate or reduce the pensions of retirees, despite recent judgment of the National Industrial Court, as “insensitive, wicked and unlawful.”

AS the 2019 general elections draw nearer and less than three days after the campaign office of President Muhammadu Buhari in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, was opened, the state government has marked the building housing the office for demolition, triggering political tension in the state.