Niger State has had its own bitter experience of the Boko Haram nightmare, with attacks from the dreaded terrorists leaving scores of people dead and property worth millions of naira destroyed. The tragic incidents also left a thick cloud of fear in the state.

CALL him a veteran in vandalising installations belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, you will not be wrong. The truth is that middle aged Chukwu Onyekachi from Okofia Village, Ezza East Development Centre in Ezza South local government area of Ebonyi State was for long on top of his game as a vandal until nemesis caught up with him following his arrest by men of the State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

COMMANDANT General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr. Ade Abolurin, has warned his members not to avenge the death of their colleagues who were allegedly killed, last week, by policemen in Owutu area of Ikorodu in Lagos State.

The hinterlands in Benue State have gradually become theatres of war where the rules of engagement and sanctity of human life are brazenly disregarded. From Gwer West to Guma and from Gwer to Oturkpo and Makurdi, it is the same sad story of killings and bloodbath occasioned by conflicts between the natives of these communities and invading Fulani herdsmen.

A POPULAR proverb has it that everyday is pregnant with mysteries which defy human knowledge. This saying played itself out on March 21, 2013 in Yelwa Makaranta Community, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis when two middle aged men lost their lives while working inside a well. The incident threw the entire residents of the community into confusion and mourning.