The West African Journalists Association has condemned the kidnapping and continued detention of journalists Wahab Oba, Adolphus Oknokwo, Sylvester Okereke, Shola Oyeyipo and driver Azeez Yekini of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.

The president of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor,on July 6, became the first Pentecostal minister to emerge as the president of the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. In his first interview in his church office in Warri, the cleric speaks on his programme for Nigerian Christians and expresses his views on next year’s elections.

I hope and pray that by the time the time of this publication, the four journalists abducted by kidnapers would have been released. On Sunday, the Chairma of the Council of Lagos State NUJ, Mr. Wahab Oba and Secretary of Zone D, Adolphus Okonkwo lost their freedom.

The relative peace of Plateau State was disrupted again yesterday after an attack on Mazah village in Jos North Local Government Area which left at least seven people dead.

Be e-relevant or irrelevant – Common saying in Singapore By IKEDDY ISIGUZO,  Chairman Editorial Board You would require a lot of e-imagination to see any future for the Eagles in 2014 after the debacle in South Africa. In line with the times, I think it is even better if we are talking about e-imagination. We […]

The pro-zoning Northern Political Leaders Forum is launching, later this week, a state-by-state mobilisation against moves to jettison zoning, in the latest of the battle of wits, that has pitched President Goodluck Jonathan against former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

I wish I had answers, sadly all I can offer is advice that we deal with the demons of insecurity, heartbreak, rejection on a day to day basis, looking to God for help and asking our fellow men for support! The alternative is a world filled with a lot more Raouls and Mels!!

He wasn’t a womanizer like Peter and he was eager to settle down. We fell in love and decided to get married. Peter was to be the best man. When I rang to tell him, he sounded a bit sad. Was he jealous!

Now, although Bafana Bafana was eliminated in the group stage, the team was not disgraced: at least, it defeated a former world champion – France. Ghana too tried, but Asamoah Gyan’s costly mistake of missing a penalty kick robbed his country the honour of being the first African nation to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup. Nigeria’s participation was a complete disaster.

In all my years in the US, I never read of a president “commissioning” a state project. Jonathan seems set to break the “Mugu record” laid by Obasanjo. Is this leadership, given that no Ministry or parastatal this year has an approved capital vote mid-July?

THE Federal Government –owned Electronics Development Institute (ELDI) based in Anambra State has made a passionate appeal to the Anambra State government to partner with it to ensure mass production of its products.

The introduction of the security services of another nation to Nigeria’s internal problems finally ought to tell us that the Nigerian police, the State Security Service, and the general infrastructure of Nigeria’s National Defence is no longer of consequence.

THE Leader of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr Philip Shuaibu, has called on the National Assembly to publish the list of state assemblies that passed the “first line charge” in the amended law which gave the National and State Assemblies financial autonomy if the amended constitution is passed into law.

The first salvo was caustic: “Nigeria is becoming a progressively worse country and we have gotten to a stage where the administration we just complained about yesterday or just got rid of is considered better than the new one.
“Just look at Goodluck Jonathan. The court gave a judgment on the Bauchi State Deputy Governor who was wrongly impeached and yet, the state governor, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, refuses to obey the court judgment. Even as bad as late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was, he would not just sit and watch the show of shame in Bauchi where you have two deputy governors. That is the sad story of my country”. Kayode Fayemi is of the Action Congress, AC, and was its governorship candidate in the Ekiti State governorship contest of 2007. His pedigree as an intellectual of global reckoning compelled us to seek his views. You will not be disappointed.

Let’s not deceive ourselves. The kidnappers of four journalists are known.
They are not ghosts, not spirits as the radio jingle tells us. But they are spirits because every human being’s core is spirit and that is why it beats the imagination that he has lost his sense of his cosmic brief, which is to give more than to take, to serve more than to be served.