Though many Nigerian house wives and food vendors may not have experienced famine at any time, but the prevailing difficulty in sourcing for the primary ingredients for providing needed meals for their variously families and customers may have left them wondering if that is presently the case in the country.

ALL that is not given is lost” is the guiding principle that seems to propel Sunshine For The Less- Privileged Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, that has taken it upon itself to cater, as much as it can, for the needy in Nigeria.

Their response seem to imply that their lives and survival depended on it. But unlike what obtains presently in Nigeria, members of the Lagos State House of Assembly surprisingly demonstrated the imperative of subjecting themselves to an HIV/AIDS test instead of shying away from it as many are wont. This they did during a one-day free HIV counseling and testing services organised by the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, LSACA which took place at the Assembly complex.

To say that Yooyo and Mbayongo council wards in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State are now ghost communities is an understatement. This is no thanks to the activities of a notorious armed group led by one Terwase Akwaza also known as ‘Ghana’ which recently unleashed terror on the communities.

I told my brother to quit this place but for five years all my pleas fell on deaf ears. I have a befitting accommodation in Mowe where I gave him three rooms but he ignored my advice, prefering to occupy two shops here with his four wives and 15 children.”