About five gunmen last Monday morning took positions at a bent in Kakeyi village, 2 km east of Zaria city and about 5 km from the N24 billion mind-bugling 150 million litres per day Zaria new water treatment plant.

To Ademola Ibirogba, 32, life is full of mysteries. The story of his life started when he had to drop out of school because there was no financial support from his family side. That was in 1993. In 1995, he became an apprentice and learnt battery charging. In 2001, he became a boss and set up his own battery charging business. Although the business was little, he was content with it.

Margaret Johnson, a five-year-old who survived the terror attack in Bayero University Kano (BUK), was surrounded by her parents, Johnson and Halima, and three other sisters on her hospital bed at the emergency section of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano.

Twice in two months, Ali Hudu Kurma, a 25-year-old deaf and dumb, narrowly escaped from suspected kidnappers. On each occasion, he had boarded a commercial vehicle from Piako to Kano, where he had lived over the last one decade and met some strange faces that made him uncomfortable and, on the two occasions, he choose to force his way out to safety.

LIFE in Egita and other communities in Egi Kingdom in Ogba Egbema Ndoni local government area of Rivers State has not been the same for the people since April 3 when gas erupted from the operations of an oil firm in the area.

Tragedy struck in Edo state last Saturday April 28, 2012, when the people of Edo state, particularly the State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), were thrown into mourning following the shocking death of three journalists, Olatunji Jacob and George Okosun, both of the Independent Television and Fidelis Okhani, a camera man attached to the African Independent Television (AIT).

*My wife slept with my father thrice – Son…*It’s an abomination, I never did that- father
Henry Nnadi, the 38- year-old dry cleaner that killed his 1-year-old son, Ebuka, and burnt his wife, Mercy,36, with hot iron for allegedly sleeping with his 65-year-old father, has finally spoken on the circumstances that led to his beastly act from the confines of his prison cell at Kirikiri, Lagos.

Mr. Celestine Obumneme Ezenwa, a spare parts dealer left home on the 26th of June 2011 in high spirits for the business of the day. As usual, his programme was to go about his business and return home to his wife and daughter of two years at the close of the day.

If Sekinat Emiola had known that an extra-marital affair she was having with Asimiyu Ayantayo who lives at Oke Aremo Ibadan could lead to her death, she would have exercised some restraint. She left her four children with a message that after she finished her business at Eleyele, she would have a stop- over in the residence of Asimiyu before she came back home.

This is not the best of time for the family of Mr. & Mrs Felix Ifeoma Onyekwelu as their 10-year-old son, Charles, is yet to eat and wear clothes by himself . Charles could not stand and walk because of his spastic limbs.