When Professor Dora Akunyili assumed duty as the minister of information and communications in 2008, she was quick to announce to Nigerians that her tenure would be on re-branding the country thereby attracting good perception of its image both among Nigerians and foreigners alike.

Natony, a major contractor of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has been issued a certificate of conformity to the requirements of NIS ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System Standards.

Dear young men,” said this pastor who was ministering at an interactive session at a young men’s convention in a Pentecostal church, “God created man for leadership. As Christ is the head of the church, so is man the spiritual head of his own home. So, for the married amongst you here this afternoon, if you’ve never thought yourself the spiritual head of your family, it’s time to think of yourself as being one, and also equip yourself to assume that role. For the bachelor, start preparing yourself for that role. A man is responsible for the sustained spiritual growth of members of his family, and God will hold him accountable.”

Macro-economic instability, poor governance and lack of or inadequate risk management have been identified as some of the factors responsible for the sharp practices bedeviling the banking sector, stock market and general investment in Nigeria.

What started like a big joke last year by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, when he announced a mouth watering $200,000,000 special entertainment fund for the Nollywood industry on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Silver Bird Group

Not a few Muslims have been railroaded into ‘accepting’ what most of our Christian brothers are only too happy to ‘believe’, namely that Nigeria is a ‘secular state’. ‘Secular’ as in Webster’s Dictionary’s definition means: ‘concerned with temporal, worldly matters’ to the exclusion of ‘religion’; or ‘the profane’ in disregard of ‘the sacred’. And especially in circumstances such as we have now, with Islamic banking needlessly on the Bunsen burner, many are wont to assert that ‘secularity’ even with contemporaneous denial of the country’s ‘multi-religious’ status.

Those who know him well enough would have observed that virtually everybody he comes across is referred to jovially as BROS.For this multi-lingual Igbo man who speaks the Yoruba language with some deliberately twisted fluency, Frank Nweke Jnr. came to national limelight when he served as former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Information Minister between 2003 and 2007. Quick-witted and sharp-minded, Nweke Jnr. is today Director-General of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, NESG.

The billionaire of the recently- rested News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, has been known for years, but not as much as he is now known. In recent time, his fame or notoriety has gone round the world. Murdoch’s overweening political influence has long been recognised, from well before when the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, flew to Australia in 1995 to pay homage at his corporate court. It is said that those who knew him have the fear that those who crossed him would be given the full tabloid treatment over their personal misdemeanors, real or imagined.

Two months ago, writing about another media tsunami, it was predicted that, with the elections over, government officials would soon invade media houses to raid them for “Media Advisers” and Commissioners. The raid is not over yet. But it has captured two of the best.

It was another glorious moment for eminent personalities and members of the noble media profession last week, at the Agip Recital Hall of the Muson Center Onikan, Lagos, as Diamond Publications, the organisers of the annual DAME awards, rolled out drums in celebration of her 20 years in business as well as the presentation of three new books written by Mr Lanre Idowu, journalist and publisher of Media Review.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ogun State Command is putting measures in place to step up security at the border points in order to curtail illegal trades and prevent offensive goods from coming into the country.

Penultimate week, precisely at an after inauguration party held at his residence at Obosi, Anambra state, Honorabe Tony Oneweek Muonagor after an excellent performance that marked the end of gyration for him, he formerly presented and anointed his longer time friend and co traveler, AB Cowboy to succeed him as the new leader of the gyration music movement.

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Tincan Island Command has impounded two security vehicles smuggled into the country through the ports.

Dawkins discussed an experiment led by Dr. Herbert Benson and funded by the Templeton Foundation, to test whether praying for sick people actually improves their health (p. 86-88). The results showed that there was no measurable difference between the recovery rate of those that received intercessory prayers and those that didn’t. But there was a difference between patients who knew that they had been prayed for and those who did not know one way or the other: the former group suffered significantly more complications than the latter.

Friends and relatives recently turned up in large numbers as foremost female lawyer, Mrs.Hairat Aderinsola Balogun, OON, formally presented her law memoirs,To Serve in Truth & Justice.