ABUJA residents woke up Monday, October  29, 2018, to scenes of utter chaos and pandemonium, as the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, or the Shi’ites and the Nigerian Army engaged in a bloody face-off in Karu and other suburbs of the Federal Capital Territory.

NOW, it is certain that of the nearly 100 political parties asking Nigerians to vote for them in 2019, two are in the forefront: the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, governing at the centre and in some states, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  in opposition at the national level but in administration in some states.

NIGERIANS are getting sick and tired of the petty politics being played by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over the execution of projects that have existed through the regimes controlled by both political parties.

NIGERIA’S longest-serving military ruler, General Yakubu Gowon, has aptly added his voice to the need for aspirants to political offices in 2019 (especially the presidential candidates of the two main parties – the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP) – to accept the result irrespective of the outcome.

SUNDAY, October 21,  2018 marked the beginning of this year’s edition of the week-long International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week which ended on Saturday, October 28,  2018. It is not yet too late for Nigeria to get in the mood and join the fray in efforts to get rid of this deadly substance from paints which are part of everyday modern living.