Opinion
By Steve Osuji
‘NEWSES’ is of course not correct grammar. News is an uncountable noun. News is news. But when events become overwhelming, we take some liberties and lapse into the unusual.
This columnist is so snookered by the rash of sad news items he found in the newspapers in one day that he couldn’t help but call them ‘
newses.’
Going through the newspapers last Tuesday June 16, to source ideas produced over 10 issues of serious national concerns that could have taken up this space. How do you have such a number of unpleasant occurrences and still term them news? They naturally have to be ‘newses’ and we must manage the space to accommodate as many of them as possible. This is hoping someone would see them and take some positive action.
So below is a smorgasbord, a salad of offensive matters happening in our country currently.
YELEWATA: A BLOOD MONUMENT FOR 272 CITIZENS KILLED IN COLD BLOOD
June 13, 2025, will forever remain a dark day not only for the people of Yelewata in Guma LGA of Benue State; it is indeed a never, never day for the entire world and the human race.
The hapless people of that remote precincts of central Nigeria were slaughtered, annihilated and incinerated in a four-hour holocaust. It was the kind of tragedy possible only in an ungoverned jungle. But it happened in Nigeria. Four hours of blood festival.
F.O
Tags: Sad news Yeleweta
