When rumours and text messages purportedly from the Boko Haram Sect to attack Plateau State started making the rounds towards the end of last year, many residents found them unsettling. What with the antecedents of the sect in different parts of the North.

WHAT the people of Anambra State had been clamouring for over the years is about to happen and that is that the state will soon be included among the oil producing states in the country with its attendant benefits. Though the Anambra River basin was known to be rich in crude oil and gas deposits, it was placed on what was described in the industry, as strategic reserve.

PORT HARCOURT: IT was certainly not a sweet story for the police penultimate week in Port Harcourt when a Corporal shot his senior, an Inspector dead and then turned the riffle at himself and pulled the trigger, killing himself on the spot as well.

Created only fifteen years ago out of old Bauchi State, Gombe State is fast growing in limbs and bounds. Its strategic location in the center of North Eastern geo-graphical hemisphere has made it a political rallying point for North –east politics.

For five weeks, the tragic end of a businessman who reportedly died inside the Ikeja police division cell has been a running story with emerging twists and untold angles unfolding by the day.

Fees of Church-owned universities in Nigeria per semester: Bowen University – N650,000, Covenant University – N640,000, Benson Idahosa – N500, 000, Babcock University – N450, 000, Redeemers University – N375, 000, Ajayi Crowther University – N350, 000, Fountain University, Oshogbo – N320,000.

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Life may never remain the same again for 26-year-old Elizabeth Bassey, following the tragic incident that resulted in her losing her right hand. The mother of one is currently battling hard to adjust to her present condition as she tries to use her left hand to do everything . Presently, she covers her amputated right hand with a scarf, apparently to avoid causing a stare.

As at the last count, the Boko Haram menace, bombings, coordinated attacks and failed attempts resulting in IEDs exploding, and burning of schools had consumed the lives of over 1, 200 persons. This was before the sad helicopter crash of Wednesday 14th March 2012, in Jos when the BELL helicopter carrying DIG Haruna John, the DIG in charge of operations at Force headquarters, ACP Garba Yelwa (Pilot), CSP Alexander Pwol-Ja (Co-Pilot), and Sergeant Sonatian Shirunam (Orderly), crashed.

Friendship, it is said, is like a bond which binds people together. For Messrs David Dung Tiri, a community leader and Sunday Davou Pam, two long standing friends of Rayfield area of Jos, doing things in common has become part of their lives. They had been bosom friends for decades. But last Sunday’s blast at St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church in Jos where they worship created an uncanny kind of bond or experience, turning them into widowers.

Family of the late DIG Haruna John is asking questions? They asked why the Nigerian police should have about two helicopters. But the late DIG’s widow dumbfounded, unable to respond to sympathisers’ questions.