He ventures into the forest looking for his daughters, armed with bow and arrow in case the terrorists surprise him. The odds are stacked against him. No one has found the 276 girls abducted from their school last month by the terror group Boko Haram.

Take a very close look, if you have the heart, at the gory pictures of the wreckage at Nyanya Mass Transit Park, Abuja rocked by bomb blast in the early morning of Monday, April 14, 2014. About 100 people were killed, over 200 others sustained injuries, many maimed, burnt beyond recognition while nearly 18 high capacity buses, several smaller commercial vehicles and cars filled with passengers ready to leave, all destroyed in the explosion planned and mindlessly executed by Boko Haram Islamist insurgents.

As the search for the over 235 school girls who were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists continues with no hope for the past three weeks, students in Borno state led by Comrade Yusuf Tom and Miss Fatima Zanna Maliki had given government 40 days, which is expected to lapse on May 24, 2014, stating that, if by then the girls were not released, they are going to mobilise students nationwide and gather at the Ramat Square in Maiduguri, where they hope to go on hunger strike until government does everything within it’s power to release the abducted students.

The 15th of April, 2014 will ever remain fresh in the minds of parents/ guardians and by extension the people of Chibok and Borno state as a result of Boko Haram terrorists invasion of Government Girls Secondary School Chibok and abducting over 200 school girls undergoing/writing their Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations, (SSCE).

My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has taken place in Abuja and many innocent people have been butchered, slaughtered and maimed.

For Augustina Chigozie, the journey to single parenthood is painful and regrettable. Narrating her experience to Saturday Vanguard, she said, “I did my traditional and white wedding. That was a few months after the man proposed to me. We did not go into a long courting before I got married to him. This was due to the fact that I met him in my church yearly camp meeting.

Marriage is the union of a man and a woman in mutual consent to live together, become “one flesh”, be fruitful (have children), multiply and replenish the earth. From time of creation, God found it was not good that the man should be alone and He formed a woman out of him as help mate.

The first point to be noted is that the appearance of ethnic conflict in Nigerian national politics especially as it relates to the Igbo and the Yoruba actually masked a more complex struggle between interests that were non-ethnic in nature.

THE recent upsurge in the acquisition of private jets by individuals and government officials has attracted the attention of Nigerians with the ongoing probe by the House of Representatives of the alleged unofficial use of chartered planes by the Petroleum Minister,Mrs Diezanai Alison-Madueke.

Even after the AG had taken the reins of power in Ibadan, the Western NCNC still insisted that Zik and Prince Adeleke Adedoyin were to proceed to the central legislature in Lagos. Dr Olorun-Nimbe, who collaborated with the Action Group and disobeyed party directive to step down for Zik earned the wrath of the party and was eventually expelled from the NCNC and soon sank into political oblivion. Adedoyin was prepared to step down for Zik on the condition that Olorun-Nimbe should relinquish the Mayoralty of Lagos to him.