The Omomen family of Sobe in Edo State has raised the alarm over their missing member, Mr Abie Omomen, 58, who, they claimed, travelled from Benin-City to Kwoi in Kaduna State on February 20, 2011 but has since not been found.

He made to escape from death, but it would seem death was determined not to spare him on that fateful Sunday night. Hearing gunshots from a nearby house, 80-year old Da Dung Bot Gwom, the village head of Tapo in Heipang District of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area did not want to leave anything to chance.

AS the death toll in Monday’s bomb blasts at a bus park in Kano rises to 110, President of the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Evangelist Elliot Uko, has urged Igbo youths to remain calm and await the decision of Igbo leaders next week. In a chat with reporters, Uko holds northern leaders and politicians responsible for the Boko Haram insurgency, saying that sponsors of the sect have murdered sleep.

No fewer than 670 students over the weekend benefited from the MTN Foundation scholarship scheme. While 590 students were from Science and Technology institutions in the South-West region, 80 blind students in Nigerian tertiary institutions made the list of the phisically challenged scholars.

Residents of Aladelola Street in Ikosi-Ketu, Lagos, where a PHCN official and a security man were electrocuted early January this year, are still living in fear. This is because, officials of PHCN are yet to replace the obsolete wires that caused the death of their neighbours. Worse still, the old wires are still left to dangle dangerously on weak electric poles thereby posing a great danger to people living in the area.

…As more killings loom
The kidnap of three persons, a man, woman and her son in Adadama in Abi Local government of Cross River State by people believed to be militants in Amaegwu village, a neighbourring community in Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi State is the latest of the evils that have continued unabated.

Tears freely flowed few days ago at Tse Gbila Ayaku in Vandeikya local government area of Benue state when the five children of a widow, Mrs. Ladi Nongu, who met their untimely death in a ghastly motor accident along the ever busy Makurdi-Gboko road, were being buried in their final resting place.

A HUNGRY man, they say, is an angry man. But Vanguard Metro, VM, is in a position to declare that a homeless man could be a venomously angry man as a recent visit to the shanty, Iganmu Alawo Community in Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area, otherwise known as Badia East, which was recently demolished by the Lagos State government, has revealed. And this is aptly captured in this scenario:

THERE must be something defective with the line of attack adopted by government and security agencies to tackle the lingering crisis in oil-rich Uzere Kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, otherwise the bloodshed, which escalated in 2011, should have abated or ceased two years after.

SINCE penultimate Saturday, it has been anguish in Akwukwu-Igbo, headquarters of Oshimili North Local Government Area ofDelta State, where rainstorm rendered over 5,000 persons homeless and destroyed no fewer than 200 houses.