Needed help has continued to come the way of victims of recent flood disasters in Nigeria, with the International Rescue Committee, IRC, sending a delegation to the country to render technical assistance and supports worth millions of dollars through an appeal fund planned for that purpose. It is doing this in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA.

A night outing after a hard day’s job was what they went for, but it turned out to be a costly one; one that ended in the ricocheting of guns, a blood bath which left 10 dead and several injured. The gunmen were said to have come in a Vectra car at about 8.30pm while customers at the S.K. Beer Parlour, located at Heipang in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, had ordered drinks and were ‘cooling down’. The three men alighted from the car, brought out sophisticated guns from under their long dresses and sprayed people in the bar with bullets before speeding off.

As the people of Ido-Ekiti, the headquarters of Ido-Osi Local Government area of Ekiti State, converged in the ancient town to celebrate this year’s annual festival otherwise known as Ajodun Omo Ido, the Olojudo, Oba Ayorinde Ilori-Faboro, extended his hands of friendship to his opponents and indeed all the sons and daughters of the town. The monarch asked the indegenes to forget their differences and join him to move Ido-Ekiti forward.

THE Ovie (monarch) of Idjerhe (Jesse) Kingdom in Ethiope-West Local Government Area of Delta State, HRM, Erhikevwe I, whose palace was razed by irate youths over his refusal to authorize the lynching of a suspected ritualist, on November 13, speaks on how he escaped death by the whiskers . He also sheds light on how he tried to avert the tragedy and the reasons for the vile actions of his adversaries in the kingdom.

IT was a sad story of love gone sour. Indeed it came as a big shock to residents of No. 8 Eze Street, off Okposi Street, Nkaliki, Abakaliki when they woke up to discover that their neighbour, Mr. Yaune Okorji, an Assistant Immigration Officer attached to Ebonyi State headquarters of the command, had lost his life because of a marital squabble which had lasted for quite some time.

As the ban placed on operations of commercial motorcycle riders, popularly called Okada bites harder in Lagos, a Yoruba group, O’odua Nationalist Coalition, ONAC, has called for a five-year long term plan to completely phase out Okada as a means of transportation in the South West states.

A popular maxim has it that the rich also cry. The reality of this recently played itself out in Ogun State as a traditional ruler, the Aga-Olowo in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Adeosun, narrowly escaped death when he was attacked by a gang of suspected assassins which stormed his palace in the wee hours penultimate Sunday.

One day, we will all die and when the time comes, there is nothing that can be done about it. Death is a debt every living soul must pay when the time comes”. These were the last words that Babangida Mohammed Danbaba, a Police Inspector attached to the Government House Bauchi, said to one of his colleagues at work.

Against the backdrop of the recent flood that ravaged many parts of Nigeria, leaving death and destruction in its wake, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, says it has taken pre-emptive measures against any likelihood of future re-occurrence of disasters, including bush and market fire during the harmattan and dry season.

One day, we will all die and when the time comes, there is nothing that can be done about it. Death is a debt every living soul must pay when the time comes”.

CONTROVERSY now surrounds the alleged murder of master Wisdom Felix Edu, who until his death was a staff of Treasureland Hotels, Ediba Road, in Calabar Municipal Council of Cross River State. Curiously, the tree beside the swimming pool where his body was discovered was said to have ‘mysteriously’ withered within 24 hours after his death.

If he had exercised restraint instead of complaining about the smoking of Indian hemp by his landlord’s son and his friends in his rented apartment, perhaps Akinyemi Oguntula’s life would not have ended so tragically. If only he had ignored and endured the inconvenience caused by the smoking of the noxious Indian hemp, he would have been alive today.

The 26th Lagos International Trade Fair as organised by Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, may have come and gone but the memory lingers on among many Lagosians, especially those on Lagos Island given the proximity of the venue, Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS.

The Nigeria Police Force has issued a stern warning to the public to watch their movements around certain areas across the country which are regarded as black spots where ritual killers operate.

Several warnings from KAI Marshal,Rtd. General Danjuma Meigeri, not withstanding, some notorious KAI Brigade officials, have shifted their extortion of erring pedestrians who prefer to dash cross the expressway rather than using overhead bridges from the Ketu-Ojota area to Onipanu in Ikorodu road.