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.