Inter Milan midfielder Joel Obi insists that the Super Eagles have the capacity to beat Guinea and qualify for next year’s Nations Cup, his rising profile at the Italian giants as well as his future.

Osun Governor Rauf Aregbesolawants Nigerians to rise and demand a proper federal structure, politically, fiscally and organically.

In Tony Blair’s “A JOURNEY”, the former British Prime Minister talks in Chapter II, The Apprentice Leadership, about fear and courage as he did in many chapters of the book. For instance, he remembers that “The journey from Opposition (read obscurity in Jonathan’s case) to government had taken three years.

Have you been making frantic efforts on your own to enjoy progress in your career, business or family, without any meaningful success? Has breakthrough unlimited been elusive to you since the beginning of the year?

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke has presented a new tourism and culture transformation agenda to the heads of parastatal under the ministry, just as he admonishes them to eschew rancour and work in synergy to move the sector forward.

Last week was the 70th birthday of veteran and award-winning photographer, jazz percussionist, one-time trend-setting barber and publisher, Sunmi Smart-Cole . And as a way of celebrating that great moment that took place in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in 1941, SS Cole as he was fondly called who is of Nigerian-Sierra Leonean parentage put together a befitting birthday bash.

“We have an obligation to admire the talents in the youths and to celebrate them so as to give them a sense of belonging in the society”, were the words of the assistant parish priest of the St Denis Catholic Church Akoka, Bariga, Rev. Father Bernard during the 4th edition of the Little Miss St Denis beauty Pageant.

Rousseau -although a proponent of legislative supremacy- seems to be on the same page with Musdapher: ‘the people’s obligation to obey the law depends upon their ‘freely’ CONSENTING to it’! Meaning although ‘who’ writes the law may smell like the ‘Sovereign’; or ‘who’ interprets ‘it’ may seem like the ‘The Law-giver’; it is who CONSENTS to the law that is ‘the law’!

Understandably, not only were our readers very concerned about the state of our roads, particularly Ore/Benin Road which the media have been highlighting for several years now, they were very angry about the apparent lack of serious sense of responsibility that the government has been displaying abDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDout it.

The editorial comment of a national newspaper of Sunday, September 25, titled, “The Abuse of Honorary Degrees,” has left many admirers of the newspaper wondering what their motive is in such sanctimonious editorializing that clearly targeted some Nigerians for attacks based on spurious premises. Bereft of logic and sound reasoning, the editorial comment, which should be the newspaper’s official position on issues, presents a good case study in self-negation, contradiction and double-speak.