Apart from the traffic jam stretching from Airport road and the presence of heavily armed soldiers primed for any eventuality, a first time visitor cannot but feel the sombre mood in the town presently threatened by Boko Haram insurgents. Yola and indeed other parts of Adamawa State are facing some perilous times. The roads, busy with people leaving the stricken town, tell the story.

WHY would you disconnect my light when I have already paid? Do you know what it means to pay N10,000 for light that I did not even consume? And you have the guts to ask me to pay another money. You even billed us for the pumping machine when you know that we have not had water in this part of Coker Village for almost one year now. If you are in my shoes, will you pay?” a middle-aged woman yelled at the marketing officer attached to the area by Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC.

A former Director of Research and Development in the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, who proposed to make a prototype Armored Personnel Carrier and production armaments locally, Jerry Obike Ogbonna, is a retired navy captain seeking to represent Abia North in the Senate through the 2015 polls. Four years ago, he contested against Senator Uche Chukwumerije in the PDP, but lost. Ogbonna, now in All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), believes that the incumbent senator has stayed too long after 12 years.

Preparations for the dedication of the two months old son of Mrs Loricia Onunkwo, a Bauchi-based Igbo business woman, scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 9 at the Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church, Fadama Mada Parish, Bauchi, turned to a nightmare for the Onunkwo family when the nursing mother was brutally killed by gunmen .

AS Nigeria awaits consideration from the United Nation’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shell (CLCS), the need to make available funds to the National Boundary Commission and the Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) office in New Yoke is said to be essentially imperative.

NIGERIA and South Africa have in the past three weeks been embroiled in a serious diplomatic and economic dispute over the twin arms purchase deals that would have seen South African Concerns playing the role of third party in the arms purchase transactions.

President Goodluck Jonathan, in the last ten months, has made two major speeches that got Nigerians glued to television and radio sets hoping to be told new things. Speeches of Presidents and Heads of State, in the past, had one of such that either put smiles on the faces of the people or did otherwise.

Life is not essentially about the wealth an individual has acquired. It does not matter at what age you were able to make it to the top. But what matters to most people with the heart of Christ is how many faces you were able to put smiles on their faces. One of such Nigerians with large heart is Peter Omoh Dunia, who recently clocked 42.

IF Oliver Okwara had joined the Nigerian Army now, many would have attributed it to the biting unemployment in the country.

FOR more than a decade, Plateau State, the “Home of Peace and Tourism”, has been plagued by series of violent attacks and bomb blasts which have left thousands dead, property worth billions of Naira destroyed and relationships among people severed.

FOR the past 41 years of its existence, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has handled the mobilization of graduates across the country for the mandatory one year national youth service through analogue method, which is replete with all sorts of irregularities.

Around 10am penultimate Monday, armed men followed Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State in a convoy of vehicles. The wailing convoy snaked its way from Kaduna metropolis towards southern Kaduna.

Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, is one of Africa’s respected cities and acclaimed to be one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It has since become a haven for tourists, investors and sellers

An estimated 600,000 vehicles from Abuja suburbs and neighbouring states enter the Federal Capital City every working day of the week excluding the number of vehicles domiciled in Abuja.

THE National Executive Committee, NEC, of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at its 66th meeting, endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s sole candidate for the 2015 presidential election ahead of his formal declaration for his re-election bid and the party’s national convention fixed for December 6.