The countryside in any part of the world is an area that is considered more relaxing, comfortable and quiet, compared to the bustling cities that have emerged in the cosmopolitan areas of the world. The countryside is the retiree’s haven, a place to escape the pollution, noise and crime of the major cities.

There were anxious moments when the Nigeria Air Force planes took to the skies in Kaduna as the NAF celebrated its 46th anniversary.

Chief Dapo Sarumi is a typical Lagos politician. But beyond that he shook this nation between 1991 and 1992 when he sought the governorship ticket in Lagos. The contest arguably remains the fiercest yet in the history of gubernatorial primaries in Nigeria.
At the end of the day, both Sarumi and his competitor, Professor Femi Agbalajobi, were disqualified from further contesting, not because they did anything bad but because it was a No-Retreat, No-Surrender scenario.

Yes, I still have my dreads on. But I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag now. You’ll see it in my next album. I’ve decided to change what I look like. My new image won’t be just about me. I want to try it and see if my fans will accept it because after all, life is all about change.

It is well known that National Assembly members have perfected the art of manipulating federal budgets to satisfy their deadly insatiable appetite for primitive accumulation. Smart Adeyemi, chairman senate committee on federal character and inter-governmental affairs, is so disappointed with the avarice of his colleagues that he has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate federal legislators for corruption.

You know, this is a teaching hospital. Before I knew it, he’d summoned some medical students who filled the room. I was already in labour, and there they all were, peering curiously between my legs I’v ever been We’re being tested on breech births’, a female medical student breathed excitedly hold my hands and breathe deeply.

I am not the coiner of the word ignorancy. Bishop David Oyedepo is. Yes, I have come across the word ignorance, and have met hundreds and thousands who show how ignorant they are on issues of import. Democracy is one issue of import and millions of us in this country are ignorant of it.

President Goodluck Jonathan specifying requirements for the nation’s enduring democracy.
Last week, this series ended with a poser, “how can we ever develop when every four years we go through the orgy of election induced violence master-minded by our political leaders?” In 2007, it was “do-or-die” according to someone who, if he were not the occupant of the innermost corridors of power, would have been considered fit for a straight jacket.

Our own Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has a different kind of fight. He did many revolutionary things. He did some unheard of things in the reformation of Lagos State. Name it: he has done it – environmental, roads, schools, taxes, etc. and all of them in 36 months. And he has 12 months to go.

Dr. Chris Ngige of the Action Congress, AC, who is now contesting the February 6th governorship election in Anambra State, relates how he stood up to political godfathers in the State during his tenure as governor.

President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to, announce, later this week, the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. But many believe that the announcement is not the main issue but the preparations for the 2011 general elections. Whoever the new INEC chairman is will have to contend with some challenges which are presented in this report.

With six days to Super Eagles crucial World Cup opener against dreaded star-studded Argentina, Nigeria suffered a blow with the announcemenet that star midfielder Mikel John Obi had been left out of the squad because he did not want to aggravate a knee injury.

It was quite late when we found out that it was cervical cancer. She was having backache, unusual bleeding and all the other symptoms of cervical cancer. The most terrible fact about the disease is that it is no respecter of age; it shortens one’s life-span and could happen to a fifteen year old girl, twenty year old, just name it. Normally people think it only infects older women but in recent times we’ve all seen that claim debunked with young people dying of cervical cancer all around the world.

Macmillan, one of the largest and best known international publishing houses in the world is characterized by academic and professional, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing of the highest quality.

Nigeria’s effort to harness its gas potentials is yet to yield the desired fruit.Dr Joseph Ezigbo, managing director, Falcon Petroleum Limited, an indigenous internal piping and gas conversion company, speaks on the gas sector.