Like other states in Nigeria, Gombe has also been hit by flood and windstorms that accompanied most rainfalls this year. There is reminiscence in Gombe State. The year has reminded Gombe people of an unprecedented natural disaster that struck the state especially Gombe metropolis in 2004. Called Gombe Tsunami, the tsunami claimed several lives, destroyed several houses, submerged farmlands just as economic and domestic animals went with the phenomenon.

Memories of recent bomb attacks in Bauchi seem to be haunting residents of the State, creating fear and uncertainty in them. This is even as the victims of the latest bomb attack but who escaped death by whiskers, are presently recuperating at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital in Bauchi.

Horror came in the shape of suicide in one of the resettlement camps in Kogi State where two victims of the ravaging floods decided to take their own lives. They could not bear the loss of properties. Suicide they wrote. In relief camps in Kogi, 20 people have already died. The conditions are not the best. Two bags of rice for 2000 victims per day: How would it go round?

Sir Emmanuel Ndubuisi Mbaka Foundation, a non- governmental organisation, has purchased tricycles, known as keke, for youths in Isuikwuato local government area of Abia State under the Foundation’s poverty alleviation and empowerment programme.

Family members and the kinsmen of a Yola based car dealer, late Mr. Christian Eze have given the Inspector General of Police a 24 hour ultimatum to unravel the circumstances leading to the death of the father of six children.