I join millions of his well-wishers from across the country and the globe, in wishing President Jonathan God’s blessings as he begins soon, his four years as president of Nigeria. He won overwhelmingly because he worked hard to convince many Nigerians that he’s the best candidate at this point in time.

By June 7 we will know who becomes the Speaker. It would have to be Mulikat Akande-Adeola or Muraina Ajibola. Two of them come from Oyo State: both of them are lawyers and are two-time representatives. As I have heard them out, the two of them are very articulate. Any of them will be a credit for the lower legislative chambers.

The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) derby between Dolphins and Sharks will now hold today. The game was billed to be played on Saturday but local elections in Rivers State, where both sides are based has now occasioned a shift in the date.

DELTA State Commissioner for Orientation and Communcation, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, last night, faulted the claim by the campaign outfit of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, gubernatorial candidate in the state, Chief Great Ogboru, that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan was wrongfully declared winner of the April 26 gubernatorial election by INEC with 523, 793 votes.

After more than a decade off the scene, popular female, urban contemporary gospel artiste, Lorine Okotie, is back in the studio. Lorine is now making a return that the gospel audience has long awaited. The pioneer of contemporary gospel music began her music career years back under the supervision of her older brother and producer, Chris Okotie.

Flora Nwapa published Efuru in 1962, four years after Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. I did not know all of this then at that age but I was fascinated that she was a writer because whatever else that occurred to me that African women could be, writing was not one of them. We had had career days right from kindergarten where we were exposed to all the available career options that awaited us

Recipe for premature aging: Excess weight (which gradually leads to degenerative disease) sedentary lifestyle, Alcohol, Smoking, sugar – toxins.

Versatile singer, Awodumila Akinmayokun, otherwise known as May D, has emerged the first artiste to be officially signed to Square Records, the label of multiple award-winning singers,P Square.

Since the death of many Nigerians in the post-election riots of last month, the media have been replete with reports on the subject. The figures being published for those affected are quite disturbing.

I basically discovered that as a kid. I still remember what it felt like using my father’s screw driver as a microphone and my mother’s head tie as my long hair and the wall in our living room as my microphone stand. Every time I did that, my father would look at me helplessly because there were different holes I put there with my artificial microphone

There is an unstated or implicit consensus among ndi Imo, particularly those parts of old Imo State that constitute the present state, to the effect that since the late Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe’s governorship ended in 1983, the state has never witnessed purposeful, people-oriented, governance. In other words, the administration of Mbakwe remains the gold standard for judging the performance of any administration in Imo State.

There are some experiences you would have laughed at as being ludicrous if they hadn’t happened to you. For two years, Michelle, a 30-year-old IT analyst was blissfully in love with her man of two years. She was more financially well off than he was but after a year together, Anthony, her beau, convinced her he wasn’t a gold-digger. According to her, “Watching him help out at my house, decorating and helping with my cars convinced me that perhaps we did have a future together. So, when he started urging me to start making wedding plans, I was very excited. He was a very handsome man with whom I was sure we would make lovely babies.

Emmanuel Okala, Felix Owolabi, Gara Gombe, Jaret Tenebe, Chikelue Iluonosie ,Taju Disu Samson Akiga, Sani Usman and Harrison Jalla were expected to be inaugurated as interim board of the reformed Nigeria Football Association, NFA yesterday in Abuja.

Comedy business is bound to take a new dimension as a pioneer filmmaker and comedy merchant extra-ordinaire, Opa Williams has unveiled plans to export his brainchild comedy show, “ Nite of a Thousand Laughs”to other African countries . The countries include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Liberia amongst others.

Among the oft-cited second generation of Nigerian literary scholars, to whom the credit of sustaining the dignified heritage of Nigerian literary intellection as diligently inaugurated by the now legendry pioneers of the tradition is most glowingly ascribed, Onuora Ossie Enekwe is undoubtedly a leading light.