IT is heart-warming that concrete plans are being made to return Plateau State indigenes chased away from their communities by rampaging armed herdsmen militias over the past year.

Future events were to prove him wrong because in 1939 a more nihilist World War (II) again broke out between the Allies and Germany and its Axis allies. Once again, the Allies prevailed, but the cost of the war was so staggering that the winners made better efforts to appease the losers and thus prevent the outbreak of a World War (III) in these atomic and nuclear ages which could extinct mankind.

When the news of his disappearance broke, the Saudi authorities told one lie after the other to shield the truth. First, they said he had walked out of the embassy. Later, they said he died while fighting with officials in the embassy. Finally, they admitted he was killed by a drug which was injected into him with the intention of abducting him to Saudi Arabia.

FORMER President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) clocked 61 on Tuesday, 20th November 2018 and celebrated it by presenting his autobiography entitled: My Transition Hours, at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.

THE Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, CSM, season is here again. The hot season is a period to be apprehensive because this disease claims many lives almost every year. For instance, between December 2016 when that season’s outbreak started and May 2017, 1,166 deaths were recorded, mostly in the North.

ON Sunday, November  18, 2018, the campaigns for the 2019 general elections began in line with the guidelines and timetable issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

STEPS to end the obnoxious Osu caste system in Igboland appear to be gathering steam in a way never seen before. In September this year during the 1019th celebration of the New Yam Festival of Nri Kingdom (believed to be the birthplace of most Igbo groups), Eze Nri Enweleana II, Obidiegwu Onyesoh, abolished the system in his community. In July this year, it was abolished in Irete in Owerri, Imo State.

IN June 2019, the unconditional amnesty granted the ex-militants of the Niger Delta will be ten years old. The late President Umaru Yar’ Adua had in June 2009, listened to wise counsel and made this offer to the agitators destroying our economic assets in the Niger Delta in exchange for peace and their rehabilitation. This measure became so effective and popular that successive regimes continued to adopt it

ORGANISED Labour – the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, led by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, and Comrade Joe Ajaero’s United Labour Congress, ULC – are floating on the euphoria of a historic achievement. They squeezed out a new National Minimum Wage of N30,000 without actually embarking on indefinite strike, burning down the economy and subjecting the people to untold hardship.

FOR once in a long while some diplomatic efforts to alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians living in foreign lands appear to be recording a heart-warming breakthrough. Shops and small businesses belonging to Nigerians – about 400 in all – shut by the Ghanaian authorities are gradually being reopened.