In Luke 10:5 when Jesus sent out his disciples two by two, He told them that whatever house they enter, they must first say ‘peace to this house’. This brings my thought to family violence. How many homes experience peace?

Obviously that is a limitation, but we are not totally helpless as a result. Media practitioners over the years have improved their information-gathering and investigative capabilities using available technology, to the extent that one can have enough reliable information about prominent individuals (without necessarily meeting them face-to-face) which otherwise would not have been possible.

The great dome of his head framed by wooly white hair. As we sat for a long, lingering breakfast, overlooking a golf course and a mild sun in descent, we went down memory lane, I prodding gently to retrieve the fragments of a remarkable life; a rich and textured life, and long. He said, very humorously, over a generous spread of hash-brown, eggs and sausage, “you see, I eat slowly. I have to be careful now how I chew otherwise my teeth will fall all out.

President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be winning the battle for the support of the majority of the state governors following what one of them called the president’s “reassessment of the basis of his engagement with the governors.”

The National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo is under fire for what influential members view as his “subterranean moves” to cause confusion in the state chapters”.

In the first part of this interview published last week, we prepared your minds for revelations regarding the following issues raised earlier viz:
What did Shagari tell Olunloyo? What did the Ooni of Ife have to do with the 1983 governorship elections in Oyo State? Who tried to appease Oduduwa shrine with money?
What was Olusegun Obasanjo’s role in that election? Read about Obasanjo’s attitude to money and it will shock you? Do you know how much governors earned during the Second Republic?
Did you know security vote was 50 times the salary of governors?

As occasions go it was quite nice and it shows what an impact her life has had if people she led so many years ago dropped all to see her on a day as dull and rainy as Tuesday was. I was only going to stay a while but a downpour put paid to any other plans and I had decided to wait and see some of the old friends that were coming.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has told the newly nominated service chiefs that Nigerian security agencies should no longer be reactive but proactive to issues.

The camps of President Goodluck Jonathan and General Ibrahim Babangida are now locked in a verbal duel after Chief Raymond Dokpesi, the Director-General, IBB 2011 Presidential Campaign Organisation alleged, yesterday, that the president was after his life.

LAST week, I told you that you have an enviable and glorious destiny. Also, I said that every child of God is predestinated to live a glorious life. I taught on one of the things it takes to take delivery of your glorious destiny—Consecration. This week, I will show you other things to do to take delivery of your enviable destiny—believe that it is practicable, desire it and be committed to a life of prayer and fasting, be committed to the Word of Life, be committed to fellowship, keep a Godly association and Godly exercise.

Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Friday, rendered account of his stewardship in the last 1, 200 days, saying his administration is committed to redefining governance in the state.

DEPUTY Director General of Uduaghan Campaign Organization, Dr. Festus Okubor, says he is not opposed to positive criticisms but expressed displeasure in using anger as a yardstick for assessment of performance.

“Do something, Oga, do something. I’ve been stranded on this Ore-Benin road for over five hours now. Please tell government to do something”, an angry traveller in an SOS phone call to Sunday Vanguard on Thursday evening.

In recent times, statistics available have shown that in Nigeria, cervical cancer accounts for 15 per cent of female cancers as compared to just about 3.6 percent in the developed countries. Shockingly, less than 0.1 per cent of Nigerian women have ever had cervical cancer screening in their lifetime and less than 1 per cent is aware of the existence of this silent killer. Consequently, cervical cancer kills a woman every hour in the country. Although 100 percent preventable, the cancer kills more women aged 24 to 35 years old women in developing countries than any other cancer in other parts of the world.

Professor Alphonsus Bosah Chukwurah (ABC) Nwosu was Political Adviser and Minister of Health in the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2003. Before then he was the Chairman, Organizing Committee of MKPOKO IGBO of 1994 and the Head of the Igbo Secretariat at the 1995 Constitutional Conference. Recently he was appointed Director of Research, Planning and Strategy for President Ibrahim Babangida’s Campaign Organization. In this interview, he speaks of what should constitute the Agenda for 2011 Presidential Election, the contentious issue of zoning and advises his kinsmen, Ndigbo not to abandon the accepted concept of zoning which they fashioned and pushed through for redressing marginalization at the 1995 Constitutional Conference