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.