Flood of tears

It's been a very gory festive period as several incidences across the nation continue to claim lives and throw families into mourning. It was a tragic Thursday in Osun state as nine persons died while 11 others were injured in a motor accident on the Gbongan-Ile Ife Road in the state.

The accident which involved a commercial bus and a truck occurred around 1.30.p.m. opposite the Gbongan Community High School, Gbongan.

Flood of tears flew in Maiduguri on Thursday as unknown gunmen shot a businessman and slaughtered seven others. The eight people were killed at different times in what appeared like a coordinated attack.

The businessman, Alhaji Gashua Girigiri was shot at the front of his store while the attackers were said to have held the other seven victims at gun point, before using sharp objects to slit their throats.

Tears continue to flow across rivers and seas as death toll from the inferno triggered by fireworks in Lagos on Wednesday, increases to four. As hundreds of families count loses from the fire, traders who had travelled for the yuletide have cut back their holidays to visit their stores.

And so it was that when Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, wept openly while presenting the 2013 appropriation bill before the state House of Assembly following the havoc wrecked on the state by members of an Islamic sect. “The weeping governor” presented N184.3 billion budget aimed at kick-starting the recovery of the state. Even as he expected to raise Internally-Generated Revenue, IGR, of N30.1 billion from the war-thorn state in 2013.

… Gunmen alleged to be Fulani herdsmen killed three people at Bachit in Riyom Local Government Area in a night raid. The gunmen shot dead a man and his wife while asleep, shot dead another and wounded several others as they tried to escape from the village during the raid.

 However, JTF seems to be winning some and losing several as the force said it killed 5 suspected terrorists and demolished a bomb factory at Rigasa in Kaduna North Local Government area, at a house located off Makarfi Road. Kaduna.