IT was indeed a moment of joy and jubilation as the National Obstetric Fistula Centre in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, treated and discharged 25 more indigent women who had suffered obstetric fistula after many years of failed attempt to get medical solution.

A PLETHORA of abandoned or underutilised buildings currently dot the nation’s landscape. Lagos, the former seat of the Federal Government and unarguably, the country’s commercial capital, is littered with most of these structures, majority of which used to be beehive of activities in the 1980s and 1990s. They were, however, abandoned when many Federal Government-owned ministries and establishments relocated to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

NIGERIA has a population of over 67 million unemployed youths out of a population of about 167 million persons, a 2011 report by the National Bureau of Statistics, said.

MR Ahmed was diagnosed with cancer of the prostate and decided to go to India for treatment. A few days after he came back to Nigeria, he complained of dizziness, headache, swollen legs which the family attributed to the long flight.

VARIOUS narratives about Nigerians resident in different countries abroad show how individuals are constantly subjected to various levels of inhuman treatment while in pursuit of existence. Little wonder some Nigerians are of the opinion that it is time Nigerians in Diaspora began dreaming of actualizing decent lives back in Nigeria.