NIGERIA is being seriously dogged by unbelievably violent crimes, perhaps as a result of grinding poverty, poor leadership and growing desperation among the citizenry. This year, the Offa bank robbery in April was easily one of the most notably violent crimes on record.

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.