When Mrs Gloria Ololade Ajibulu woke up on February 3, 2012, little did she know that a brutal attack awaited her.

THE birth of a new child is usually an occasion for celebrations but for the family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari village in Zaki Local Government Area of Bauchi State, the arrival of a very strange baby girl on January 13, 2012, was greeted with sorrow.

The birth of a new child is usually an occasion for celebrations but for the family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari village in Zaki Local Government Area of Bauchi State, the arrival of a very strange baby girl on January 13, 2012, was greeted with sorrow.

If anybody had told “Baba”,a mechanic with the LAGBUS Management Authority that death was lurking around that fateful Wednesday, January 25, 2012, he would have waved it aside as the machination of his enemies. Baba, as he was fondly called by his colleagues at LAGBUS, was killed by the stationary bus he was trying to put in order.

Just as residents of Yenegoa, the Bayelsa State capital were trying to put behind them the near catastrophe that jolted the capital city, when Tombia bridge was bombed, a more audacious attack was launched on the riverside Olugbobiri community in the Southern Ijaw council area by unknown armed gunmen who bombed a section of the country home of ex -militant leader, Mr. Africa Ukpariasa, popularly known as Gen Africa.