It was an event Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State was scheduled to hand over 250 taxi cabs to taxi operators in the state as part of on-going efforts to phase out rickety cabs in the state. But the event was to be temporarily disrupted by a bomb scare which created panic beyond the confines of the State Secretariat, Alausa.

Before now, street begging was the exclusive preserve of the physically-challenged whose condition usually attracted sympathy. Majority of them were usually seen at bus-stops and other public places soliciting for alms.

Pandemonium will best describe the scene that fateful Friday of December 31, 2010. This was after an explosive device was detonated at a part of the Mammy market located inside the Mogadishu Cantonment Barracks in Abuja where people sell roasted fish.

As you read this piece, thAs yurbed and confused. Many are still struggling to beat the deadline of updating their accounts in various banks across the country, while others are jostling at different Glo or MTN centres to beat the deadline of registering their lines.

The coming of Christianity to Igboland has severally been hailed by commentators for the positive changes it brought into the communities. Christian missionaries established schools, hospitals, orphanages and other facilities that helped to improve the well being of the people.