The grand finale of Triple Fun Club 2011 Literary, Oratory, and Leadership Week came to a close recently at the Atlantic Hall, Hotel Presidential in River State

The Bayelsa State special security outfit, Operation Famou Tangbe (OFT), may have been proscribed by the police but this well-kitted and highly motivated outfit will remain evergreen in the minds of the people.

Lara, a pregnant lady, was due in a couple of weeks and had asked her doctor for an epidural and she heard a stunning reply from him:“What is that, who told you about epidural?”. She responded that she learnt about it abroad. That was when the doctor realised he was talking to a knowledgeable person. And the doctor just spilled: “We don’t have that here, please”.

Lagos State government has called on intending pilgrims to Saudia Arabia for the 2011 pilgrimage to be orderly and law abiding during and after the pilgrimage exercise even as it charged the state ad-hoc committee on hajj to work hard in order to achieve the purpose they were appointed.

The joy of every parent is to see his or her child grow happily into an adult and become successful in life.

However, this cannot be said of Ms Toyin Odunowo, a single parent whose only child, Mayowa Abolaji, is suffering from what medical experts called a congenital heart disease, that is, a large Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) commonly referred to as ‘hole in the heart’.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has appealed to Nigerians not to despair but to see the current challenges facing the nation as necessary steps which great nations today have gone through in the past.

Over the years, one of the disturbing concerns of the 21st century especially in Nigeria is finding and nurturing purposeful leaders for socio-political and economic advancement.

It is time once again for the ruling class to celebrate Nigeria’s independence. Indeed, activities to that effect commenced last Sunday when President Goodluck Jonathan attended an interdenominational church service that day, although the event got to its omega point yesterday, October 1, when the country became 51 years old. Evidently, for the average Nigerian to get to 51 years in this country is an achievement, considering the fact that latest estimates of life expectancy for men and women are below 50 years.

Ilorin was agog last Friday when some of the country’s best performers invaded the city in a musical concert put together by telecom giants, MTN, to celebrate the company’s 10 years of providing social services to the nation.

Osun State, created on 27 August, 1991, along with eight other states by the regime of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, recently rolled out the drums for a week long activities to mark the 20th anniversary of the state.

To encourage de-congestion of the ports caused by containers undergoing physical examination, APM Terminals Apapa has said that all containers classified as Fast Track (blue channel) would no longer attract the general customs inspection charge, but a minimal administrative and operational charge.

The special court martial set up to try former Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, Brigadier-General Muraina Raji, over the escape of two Boko Haram suspects from detention at the brigade has discharged and acquitted him.

What remains evergreen in each person’s memory depends largely on the unique experiences he garners while growing-up. For me, what I recollect so vividly is my routine task as a youth of talking with my uncle-Ajayi-who had a habit of saying something quite different all the time from the subject at hand

Troy Davis, ( 42) was executed on September 21,2011, in the United States of America and some would say he merited his execution. Because he was found guilty of the death of an off- duty policeman, Mark MacPhail.

It was double celebration for Ekiti State Saturday, as the nation turned 51. It was also the 15th anniversary of the creation of the Ekiti State, which was created October 1, 1996.