Uneasy calm has pervaded the university town of Nsukka, Enugu State, following allegations of involvement of masquerades in the increasing acts of robbery, torture and extortion of money from unsuspecting victims.

When the family of Ifeanyi Ugwu woke up last Saturday morning, never in their wildest imagination did any of them envisage the tragedy that befell them later in the day.

A Nigerian fugitive, Abdul Adewale Kekere-Eku, was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment in the UKfor murdering 18-yearold Marcus Hall in 2001, following a brawl outside Luton’s Atmosphere Nightclub.

A 70 year old man might have cheated death when he bounced back to life after spending over 30 hours in a mortuary in Makurdi, the Benue state capital. Doctors at a private hospital in the town had on Saturday, August 26, 2015, certified Amos Otene dead at 4. 30 am and promptly covered him up and wheeled him into the mortuary, awaiting instructions from members of the family for embarment.

This was not the pact we signed when I agreed to be your wife about a decade ago. It is too painful for me to believe that God allowed this to happen so soon,without a word to your Nedu and daughters who are too tender to tell stories about their daddy