This is not the best of times for Benue state, not with the influx of over 50,000 internally displaced persons who on daily basis throng Makurdi, the Benue state capital, from crisis- ravaged villages and communities in Guma and Makurdi local government areas of the state.

For 84 families of 2002 Ikeja bomb blast, January 27, 2002 will forever remain a nightmare. This is because the pains and agony they feel as a result of the death of their loved ones are yet to heal.

REFUGEES from some neighboring African countries recently, at a town hall meeting organised by the South West zone of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI, appealed to the Federal Government to assist them by integrating them into the society.

No fewer than 8,000 people who reside in South West parts of the country, have been rendered homeless by wind and rainstorms which ravaged the areas within a space of two months.

Residents of 18 riverine communities of Onisiwo Island Kingdom, Apapa area of Lagos State, have cried out loud to any ‘messiah’who could save them from their present predicament of alleged marginalisation, total neglect and misrepresentation.