FIGHTING broke out, weekend, at Mosogar community in Delta State between two youth factions, resulting in the burning of property and shooting of a carpenter, simply identified as Solomon.

Barring any last minute change of plans, the talks expected to culminate in the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, should continue today.

GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, yesterday, warned mischief- makers who had capitalised on perceived frosty relationship between him and a former pastor of his church, declaring that he did not curse Pastor Ituah Ighodalo.

A senior colleague described him as an angry man. Don’t miss the point: His anger is directed at the system. He should be understood. If a man, in just seven years as federal commissioner for works and housing can build about 20000 kilometres of roads and today, the total network of roads in the country can not proportionally measure up to that even if by half, he should be angry.This is the second part of the interview we commenced last week. In this part, Okunnu places so much store by the relationship between him and the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, after which he dropped a bomb shell: “Obasanjo got drunk with power”. He said much more.

The Mallam Adamu Ciroma nine-man committee of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, in search of a consensus candidate for the North, was billed to meet with some political leaders in the South between yesterday and today, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.

For the first time in the history of Nigeria, a direct investment intervention has been made by the Federal Government into the entertainment industry. Announcing this lifeline yesterday at the Eko Hotel and Suites venue of the Silverbird Group 3oth anniversary, President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed that N200 million has been set aside by the finance ministry for direct investment into the Nigerian entertainment industry.

For all you men out there who are fond of one-night-stands, one day soon, your past could return to hunt you. The thrill of one-night stands never leaves the average male adventurer who wants to have as many notches on his bed-post as he could-and marriage seldom stops him.

These days, it is difficult to believe what you read; not to believe what you hear. Take for example: Farida Waziri of EFCC issued a list of those with what the Yoruba would say had ‘comma’ in their characters; in other words, some Nigerians, who had to answer for some charges.

“Security is a challenge to any government. Before this time we never had any kidnapping in Nigeria. We never had the problem of car bomb in Nigeria…The first kidnapping we had was in 2006 when I was a Deputy Governor..If anything happens and government does not handle it on time, selfish people exploit it for commercial purposes”.

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community”

In 2005, she was a naive, 18 year old geography undergraduate when she escorted her friend to the Silverbird office to submit her form for the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant. But on getting there, some members of staff discovered Omowunmi Akinnifesi to be a beautiful girl and wondered why she was not picking the form herself. She was encouraged to do so and she heeded the advice filling and submitting the form on the very last day entry forms were to be submitted. The rest as they say, is history for she went on to win that contest, emerging as the Most beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2005.

It was heart warming some two weeks back when in far away Vienna, Mrs Deziani Alison-Madueke was celebrated as Nigeria’s first female oil minister. Lucky woman!

In 2001 after the Presidential Adviser’s Office on NASS had nudged the Ghali Assembly to pass the controversial Anti-Corruption Bill, it’s House Committee wrote the Special Adviser, Aminu Wali requesting him to, in recognition of his S. A.’s ‘commendable’ liaison role, release me to join its members to attend that year’s 10th International Anti-Corruption Conference in Prague Czechs Republic.

If you as a woman were asked to count the stars on your crown that tell the story of each woman you have helped to come up the ladder, how many stars would you have on your crown?. . . This powerful question was posed to me by Ini Onuk, Executive Secretary of WIMBIZ (Women in Management and Business), during the recent interview she granted me.

Worried about the influx of fake and substandard goods allegedly from Republic of China, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has warned Nigerian importers to desist from sabotaging the economy by bringing such products into the country to the detriment of consumers.