Dog meat suya (barbecue) is a common delicacy among the people of Plateau State. It is eaten with burukutu (a local brew), beer, or any other preferred drink. A formal or informal gathering is incomplete without dog meat suya. However, among all the ethnic groups in the state, only the people of Afizere stand out as those who forbid dog meat.

Nigerian Thelma West is a rare gem in the diamond world as a woman in a male-dominated sector with few Africans, despite the continent being the main source of the precious rocks.

The university town of Nsukka which was not long ago thrown into confusion and mourning following invasion and murder of two persons in nearby Abbi community by suspected Fulani herdsmen is once again under the grip of tension arising from the attack of an Enugu-based herbalist, Emmanuel Udorji, by unknown gun men who stormed his home supposedly on a killing mission.

Barely a year after they lost their lives in a boat mishap while on an assignment to monitor the last Presidential and National Assembly elections at one of the riverine areas in Epe Local Government, Lagos State, the six victims are to be immortalised, courtesy of a group, AMBSAM Foundation, which has concluded plans in that regard in collaboration with Epe community.

THE excitement that greeted the resumption of work on the Yenagoa-Obogoro-Oporoma Road three years ago has given way to despair following the suspension of work on the project in the wake of the fall in the state allocation from the federation account.