Mr Ufodike Chimuanyan Egwuchukwu Aroma, a graduate of Geography and Regional Planning at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka last week won the N10 million prize money in the MTN sponsored ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’. The indigene of Nnewi, Anambra State, still basking in the euphoria of being the latest millionaire in the most popular money winning programme in Africa spoke to Vanguard about his success on the hot seat.

I never knew Gani Fawehinmi in a deep and personal way, but he was of course, rested somewhere in my consciousness, as I’m sure he does in the consciousness of any Nigerian of my generation, as an inevitable testimony of true acts of public heroism. He was indeed the hero of the silent unrepresented; those we love to call the masses. He, therefore, somehow, seemed to belong to all of us.

THREE weeks after two indigense of Orogun kingdom, Ughelli North local government area of Delta State were striped of their chieftancy titles resulting from the recent ill- fated Orogun Progress Union (OPU) election, the ‘Ukomor’ of the clan, Chief Johnson Akporugo, had been sacked by the Okpara-Uku, HRH Otagba Eferobome I of the kingdom.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has raised an alarm over alleged plans by the state government to instigate students and non- governmental organizations (NGOs) to protest the refusal of the state House of Assembly to confirm the list of members of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) as presented to it by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

THE Recent parley between Mr. Lamido Sanusi and the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency might have come and gone, but it left a lot of questions unanswered about both parities. That the CBN governor floored the lawmakers in the opinion of some, have reflected how shallow Nigerians understand the tenets of the 1999 constitution.
CHARLES KUMOLU reports.