Students of Owerri Girls Secondary School will not forget November 28, 2010, in a hurry. They woke up like they did in previous days.

NOBODY in his normal state of mind would disapprove a fight-back by the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger-Delta after about nine of its soldiers were shot dead and a number of its gunboats destroyed by militants, under the aegis of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, headed by wanted militant leader, “General” John Togo during a fierce gun battle on Wednesday, November 17.

IT WAS a touching, palpably compelling moment in Ika nation, recently, when a philanthropist, physician, humanist and aspirant into the Ika Federal constituency seat, Dr. Isioma Okobah, who is based in the United States, paid a sympathy visit to the families of the six pupils who lost their lives in the water tank tragic incident in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.

FOR residents of Ojodu area of Lagos State, the worry of shopping for the 2010 Christmas celebration may be over.

There are just two classroom blocks for the about 200 pupils in the school. But even space constraint is not their only problem.

FOR commuters plying the Lagos Badagry expressway, Thursday, December 1, 2010, is a day they will not forget in a hurry. Same applies to those who reside along the expressway, especially the Finiger-Alakija axis of the highway. Aside being trapped in the traffic for several hours, the sight of roasted human corpses, was one that will haunt them for years to come.

Doris Simeon Ademinokan stands out in Nollywood. In an industry where rumour mills are regularly at work, she has managed to keep her head above waters and staying free from scandals.

If anybody had prophesied to Lucky Olotu, an indigene of Ekeremor in the Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State that the cold hand of death was lurking to snatch his lovely family, he probably would have dismissed the prediction as another ruse given the healthy state of his pregnant wife, Benita and three- year-old son, Paul.

IT WILL certainly be a Tuesday to remember for most staff of Vanguard Media Limited. It was a day they had the honour and privilege to receive a man of God of great repute.

Imo State was again thrown into serious mourning, Monday, November 22, 2010, following the gruesome murder of the traditional ruler of Ibeamaukwu autonomous community, Umunakanu, Ehime Mbano Local Government Area, Eze Emeka Njoku, in bizarre circumstances.