KIDNAPPING (read man-stealing) has metamorphosed into such a very big industry in Delta State that it currently has a
loose association, comprising graduates and undergraduates with an organized set-up and leadership.

Last Thursday morning, President Jonathan Goodluck sat under a giant rotund canopy among some of Nigeria’s most important political leaders in the remote Fadadn Kagoma village, in Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, as part of record breaking crowd in the history of the village, for a grim event as Kaduna State first and only Christian to be elected governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, was being buried after 64 years on earth.

DISTURBED by the parlous state of affairs in the country, some eminent Igbo leaders have proffered suggestions on how to get the country back on the track of socio-economic and political development.

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, has warned that the activities of Boko Haram, kidnapping, armed robbery and other social upheavals in the country were drifting Nigeria towards a failed state.

Chike Egbo, the 25-year-old student at Enugu State College of Education, who was bathed with acid by her estranged fiancé, David Suleiman, in November, has been reported dead.