They Sell The Needy For A Pair Of Shoes

 By Owei Lakemfa

I woke up at the weekend to a letter by Professor Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai of the Bayero University, Kano. He had on March 25, 2023 performed a civic duty as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Returning Officer for the Tudun Wada/Doguwa House of Representative elections.

He had announced with his professorial authority that Ado Doguwa of the All Progressives Congress, APC, polled 39,732 votes to defeat his closest rival, Yushau Salisu Abdullahi, of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, who polled 34,798 votes. Now, in his letter, he makes a different declaration: that the previous verdict he declared was false, but that he had to do so because his life and those of other electoral staff were endangered. He said the collation area was under siege and he was “completely traumatised, hopeless and confused”.

Nigeria: Tackling The Menace Of ‘The Great Flood’

 By Harrison Eromosele

The annual ritual flooding which every  so often besieged and submerged communities, suburbs, towns, and certain metropolises across several states and countrywide has degenerated from being a recurring decimal problem to a recurring death crisis. The havoc wreaked by this year’s deadly flooding is overwhelmingly unprecedented.

Indeed, it has earned for itself, a catastrophic history. This is the great flood of 2022. There are frightening grapevine hypotheses, suggesting that the devastating scale of this year’s (2022) flood condition in relation to 2012 would possibly imply a repeat, once every decade.

Help For Flood Victims In Kogi, Bayelsa, Others

 By Moshood Erubami

The torrential downpour from  rain and its consequences have come against pre-warnings that the resultant flooding will destroy crops, houses, schools, and businesses including the losses of lives, with many injured and countless losing their livelihoods, while millions will be displaced.

The loud shout for immediate action on the effects of global warming and climate change and its consequences in flooding resulting from the climate emergency is now. It is most tragic and pitiable that most residents of the states ravaged by the flooding in Nigeria now pull up canoe boats in front of their houses to access the outside outlet to reach their various destinations while waiting for the government both in the state and federal, for actions that could bail them out of the condition and mitigate their affected economic and social conditions. The images captured of the consequential menace of the heavy rains are nauseating with men, women and their children largely affected with life-impacting consequences wading in waterlogged streets after the flooding.