This is about Stephen Nyitse, the young man who on the day of the coronation of the new Tor Tiv managed to beat security and went straight to where the king’s coronation seat, stool, throne had been placed and sat on it. We are told this caused a stir, and not a few in the crowd must have shouted: “abomination!”, Even the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Benue branch, Bishop Mike Angou considered Nyitse’s action sacrilegious.

The anti-climax of the Acting President’s admonition of Christians was for him to have openly blamed the victims, rather than the perpetrators

It is very much unlikely that there is an adult person, man or woman, who has never borrowed money at one time or the other. It could be from an individual such as parents, brother or sister, friends or from a lending institution.

More than 30,000 children have lost or been separated from their parents during insurgency which has left nearly two million uprooted after fleeing Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria”

There is this time honoured saying that behind every successful man is a woman. No man can honestly lay a claim to success without the support of women; whether here at home or abroad, we have seen the important role that women play in the life of their men. It must be for this reason, among others, that the International Day for Women has become well-recognised all over the world. Women must be celebrated as mothers; they must be celebrated as wives; and they must be celebrated as helpmates that God has made them to be for the men. Above all, today’s global village necessitates that women must also be celebrated for their contributions to world civilization and development.