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.

DUMPSITE management is a unit under Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA. There are three major landfills and two temporary sites serving Lagos residents. The three major landfill sites are Olushosun, at Ojota, Abule Egba, old Alimosho and Solous, Igando.

LAGOS residents now live in fear as the 2013 rainy season gather momentum. This is apparently due to the devastating effect of floods that come with the season. Previously, particularly, 2010 and 2011, there weres heavy rainfall accompanied by severe rainstorm which claimed hundreds of lives and destroyed property worth billions of naira across the metropolis.

MRS. Ebobra Newman Ometan, 30 and members of her family comprising three boys and girl had fantastic plans for the Easter holidays until a dark cloud fell upon the hitherto happy family and things fell apart, leaving many unanswered questions.