The new minimum wage issue has not only become contentious but has already provided a pointer that something grave could happen because of it from tomorrow, August 1.

A lot has been written about the schemes to undermine the efforts of the current Heartland Management. These acts of sabotage are at the head of the team’s poor showing earlier this season.

Bob Nosa Uwagboe penultimate week, at the African Artists Foundation(AAF), Ikoyi, threw the curtains open for an engaging solo exhibition titled ,Homme Libre. The artist, whose creative experiment in the past 7 years has resulted in thought provoking themes , also gave his audience an insight into moments of sparks of anger, pain, passion and vision that define the tenor of his art.

Youths they say are leaders of tomorrow and if the saying is real, there is every need for the youths to be adequately prepared so that they will be able to fit into that role.

Next, Dawkins considered Stephen Unwin’s Bayesian probabilistic argument for the existence of God. In his book with the pompous title The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation that Proves the Ultimate Truth, Unwin listed six items which reflect his own personal judgments: he arbitrarily assigns numbers to them and, with a facetious emergency injection of faith, arrives at the ridiculous conclusion that the probability of God’s existence is 95%.

The Nigerian banking industry is poised for greater productivity this fiscal year as nine banks made list of top 1,000 World Banks ranking and top 25 banks in Africa. This is a clear indication that the on-going reforms and new monetary policies mapped out by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to guide the operations of the banks are yielding positive results.

One keeps learning every day. It was from the reaction of one of the readers who wrote in on the above subject that I learnt that a bill has to be passed by our lawmakers that would enable people to sue the government on the state of our roads, before that action can be successfully taken.

One of the reasons we are getting nowhere in Nigeria lies in the fact that too often our conversations, discussions or disagreements are conducted with dubious data as the basis for discussion.

As part its contributions to the development of the visual art sector in the country ,an art organisation, Betleguese last week joined the list of art sponsors in the country.

If we go strictly by the English dictionary definition of the term ‘secular’ to mean concern ‘with temporal, worldly matters’ to the exclusion of ‘religion’, many of the ‘apparently-secular’ Scandinavian countries especially of Sweden, Norway and Denmark which have state-established Lutheran Churches –and most of whose Ministers are said to be drawn virtually from the civil service-, would unquestionably be ‘non-secular’.

Last week, I taught on how to receive the impartation of the Spirit of wisdom. I showed you the things in divine wisdom. Also, we tried to identify where wisdom can be found. This is a summary of that teaching.

The Advisory Board for Nigeria Prize for Literature has approved an initial shortlist of six out of the 126 books submitted for the 2011 edition of the prize.The list parades well-known writers of childre

Andy Ikechukwu Emueze is a graduate of Painting from the Federal Polytechic Auchi. Since graduation from school, he has pursued a passion in the arts, which he eventually turned into a career. Born in Lagos in the 1970s, Ikechukwu has to his credit several exhibitions within and outside the shores of Lagos.

NATIONAL President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who recently returned to the country after two weeks spiritual retreat abroad, spoke to journalists at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, on the state of the nation including the vexed issue of Islamic banking and the insecurity in the nation. The CAN president says members of the House of Representatives disappointed Nigerians on their position on Islamic banking.

Nigeria was Saturday, in Brazil drawn in Group F of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers with Malawi and the winners of the preliminaries between Seychelles and Kenya and Djibouti versus Namibia as opponents.