For over two weeks now, the two neighbouring communities of Nkputu in Owerri Ezukala and Awuka in Ogbunka in Orumba South local government area of Anambra State have been on each other’ s neck. Before this time, they were known to be living in peace until the recent communal clash that led to the killing of two persons and destruction of property worth millions of naira.

TRAVELERS on the Ninth Mile-Nsukka highway wept uncontrollably in the afternoon of Monday, June 20, 2011 on sighting the mangled bodies trapped in two commuter buses that were involved in a fatal accident in which 28 persons perished. Four of the casualties were members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who were returning to their homes after the national service in one of the northern states.

A fresh wave of kerosene scarcity has engulfed the nation and consumers are not smiling. Long queues are visible at filling stations and the product sells between N150-N300 per litre.

Some female undergraduates are gradually turning to prostitution in their bid to meet up with the lifestyle they have carved out for themselves on campus. Ordinarily, the higher institution is a place where the young adult finds herself alone for the first time in his or her life. He or she is forced to take decisions for good or bad and if not properly guided, could make grave mistakes.

When the news filtered into Yenagoa penultimate Thursday that septuagenarian Pa Erasmus Oko and his wife Mrs. Idemokumo Oko, the parents of former chairman of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) central zone and ex Bayelsa State Commissioner for Energy, Comrade Maxwell Oko had been kidnapped by unknown gun wielding youths, many were horror-struck.