WHEN the Islamic terrorist outfit commonly referred to as Boko Haram started their insurrection in Northern Nigeria pretty much everyone was a target. Christians, Muslims, members of the security forces and their institutional facilities, revellers in drinking joints, people in marketplaces and so on, were targeted with suicide bombings and assassinations.

THERE has been a furore on the various social networks over an article credited to Mallam Nasir el Rufai, in which he allegedly said Anambra State was “poor”. Many from that state, their friends, relations and well wishers were incensed with the very notion of ascribing poverty to Anambra State.

ABIA State is unlike many of its peers around the country. It was one of the states created by the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida on August 27, 1991. All the new states (like Abia) which started off on virgin capital cities did not have Government Houses. But all of them now do, exceptAbiaState, which is still being operated from private residences acquired from individuals.

DANA Air was my preferred airline. Their ticketing system was easy – you could buy your ticket in advance and collect your boarding pass immediately for convenient boarding on travel date, unlike some others where you had to come two hours to boarding and stand in long queues.

IT is the hottest debate in town. Boko Haram and terrorism have been pushed to the back seat, for now. Temporarily forgotten is the proposed electric power tariff increase the Federal Government vowed must go into effect this month. Sidelined for now are the petrol subsidy report and its mind-numbing revelations on which many interest groups have served notice they would soon go on “occupy” street protests.