Alhaji Auwal Lawan is the National Coordinator of the Jonathan/Sambo Movement, the first group to organise a major rally to drum up support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential bid and press on him to contest the election.

The sudden death of renowned scholar and professor emeritus of Education, Professor Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa came to me, like every other person who knew him, as a rude shock.

When Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city lost its innocence in the area of violence and especially bomb blasts on October 1, not a few Nigerians were taken aback.

Many of them had have been forced to flee their homes while those who thought they could brave the situation are now gripped by fear. Indeed the flood has been unrelenting in its surge as it continues to wreak havoc on those communities abutting the River Ogun.

ONE debilitating strand that can be threaded out of the Nigerian situation is what can be described as the lack of commitment to one another and to the nation. If you like, you can equate this phenomenon to lack of patriotism.

The doctors attached to the Centre for Gender Values and Culture who in the last three years had embarked on series of health care assistance to women and children in the predominantly riverine state after evaluating little Emmanuel case, who was then passing stool through a device inserted on his stomach, referred his case to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) where second and third surgical operations were carried out on him this year having lived without an anus for about a year

This is not best of times for six top officials of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, as they were yesterday re-arraigned before an Abuja high court sitting in Gudu over a 65-count amended criminal charge bothering on conspiracy, fraud and criminal breach of public trust.

SECOND Republic Vice President Dr, Alex Ekwueme, yesterday, described the “No Victor, No Vanquished” policy of General Yakubu Gowon as an economic failure for the people of South East

A member of the Federal House of Representatives, Mr Patrick Obahiagbon, yesterday, declared that the people of the state had witnessed what he described as a “developmental tsunami of socio-economic transformation” since the coming of Governor Adams Oshiomhole. He appealed to the people of the state to support the plan by the Governor to source for N30billion bond from the capital market

“Professor Fafunwa was a remarkable man. I share his passion for education. I’m well aware of the difference he made in the lives of many people as an education policy expert and teacher. He was a pioneer in several areas of education in this country.”

FIFA must derive some pleasure from kicking Nigeria about — like football. Unfortunately, Nigerian authorities have been misled into believing that there could be no life without FIFA, maybe football.

Senator George Sekibo in his contribution described Jega’s remarks as a conspiracy against the National Assembly and expressed fears on the ability of INEC to conduct free and credible polls in 2011. He added: “I foresee a situation where people fail in their duty or job and blame it on the National Assembly.”

My husband had a stroke a very long time ago and we have not had sex for nine years. We’re both in our early 50s and he doesn’t think I should. Settle for a sexless life; we don’t want to split because we still ‘love each other and our children are doing well.

When he was the President, there were a lot of business activities going on. We did not depend solely on the oil industry. My friends and I used to export things to earn foreign exchange. Now, nobody is talking about encouraging small scale export. It was during his time that we had so many institutions put in place that made our business more robust.

The hearing of a case filed by the former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the sealing off his residences in Ibadan and Afao-Ekiti, was stalled due to the absence of the anti-graft agency in court.