LAST week, I went to a funeral in Yenagoa – my first visit to the state capital of Bayelsa for ages. And I spotted a huge poster that really moved me. It had a full-length photograph of President Jonathan on it. And he was striding forward purposefully and smiling broadly like someone who feels on top of the world.

Often, the blame for our pain rests on the simple choices we make every day. Unknowingly, most of the pain we experience results from common lifestyles and everyday dressing. Our lifestyles have been found to provide poor arch support, leading to pain in the feet, ankles, and knees.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Thursday, said Governors were consulted before Federal Govern-ment launched the Sovereign Wealth Fund with $1 billion last Tuesday as against insinuations in some quarters that they were not consulted.

AHEAD of next year’s governorship election in Edo State, high level intrigues, plots, blackmail, name-calling and political witch-hunting have started in earnest, especially in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State. It is obvious that in the days ahead, more of it will resurrect among those who are posing and pretending to be members of the party, but in the actual sense they are moles who were on a suicide mission to disintegrate the party and pave way for the ruling party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to win again in the forthcoming election.

Mr. Inuwa Bwala erstwhile Punch, Tell and Leadership correspondent is a two term Commissioner in Borno State. Presently shepherding the Ministry of Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Mr. Bwala in this interview narrates the challenges that have confronted the State administration since the inception of the Boko Haram insurgency, efforts by the Governor Kashim Shettima to provide succor and the unsung successes that have been buried by the news of the insurgency.

Barely a week of its release to the cinemas, “The Return of Jenifa” (TROJ) has out sold all other Nollywood movies at the cinema in the country, a feat which many believe may rank the movie as one of the fastest grossing Nollywood movies.

For the past three months, members of the family of Chief Fabian Umeh, a community leader and politician from Ezinifite in Nnewi South local government area of Anambra State have done everything humanly possible to locate his where about, but to no avail.

Enyimba football club chairman and Nigeria Football Federation board member, Felix Ayansi- Agwu is yet to get over his team’s ouster from the CAF Champions League.

24-year old University of Benin student, Lynn Uke became the third contestant to be voted out of the 3rd season of popular music reality TV show, Glo Naija Sings.

Barely weeks after its official launch in Nigeria Trace Urban Anglophone Africa has stepped up its promotion of premium African music. Trace Urban has two exclusive videos this week, 2Face Idibia from Nigeria and D’Black from Ghana.

The acting Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Gombe State, Mallam Sadiq Musa has said that sensitive and non-sensitive materials for the re-run election in Balanga/Biliri Federal Constituency in Gombe State which holds tomorrow have been received by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Chief Umeh Kalu, the Abia State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice recently fielded questions in an exclusive interview with Vanguard on various issues affecting the State.

Nigeria’s Falcons have a onerous task ahead in their second leg London 2012 Olympic qualifiers against their Cameroonian counterparts Saturday in Yaounde.

THE Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, said his government is investing heavily in agriculture because over 90 per cent of the stat’ s population are involved in it.