Letters - Page 74

SIR: I am learning to sleep with noise. That is the only way I can categorise the sound coming from my new neighbour. After midnight, they keep vigil.

SIR: The spate of burglary in rural communities is compounding the plague of poor folks and the anxiety of city dwellers who have to lock down their village homes after each visit.

SIR: Our thoughts are with the hundreds of pilgrims involved in the 2015 Hajj stampede and their families. May the Almighty grant the bereaved families the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

SIR: I have taken a very critical look at the trend of appointing chairmen for national electoral commission in Nigeria since independence.

SIR: He who comes to equity must come with clean hands. Like judgment day, they have been appearing before equity but their hands have turned to an odoriferous bag of garbage.

SIR: Although I single-out France, virtually the entire Europe was engulfed in religious intolerance in the 16th and 17th centuries.

SIR: Nigeria’s gas flaring re-emphasises the aphorism that we are rich in energy resources but poor in energy supply. The Associated Gas Re-Injection Act was made as an Act to compel every

SIR: When, in December 2011, former President Goodluck Jonathan promised to eradicate terrorism in six months but failed to do so throughout his tenure, nobody could do anything to him.

SIR: The delayed payment of workers at the federal level has been a source of concern and there is the urgent need to ameliorate the hardship they are facing.

SIR: The party, All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA), in Abia State has accused the Abia Government of selective destruction of illegal structures in Aba, saying it was vindictive and targeted at their