For those pieces of advice and constant abuses she got from her fans and foes in respect of her past her lifestyle, sultry actress cum singer Cossy Orjiakor has surely become a changed person.

As Nigeria battles to stem activities of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Warri based Reverend (Dr) Simeon Okah, Bishop of the Flock of Christ Mission, says the sect’s activities are inadvertently helping to convert more people to Christianity as Nigerians and elsewhere do not like to be associated with violence. He also speaks on insecurity and other issues of national interest. Excerpts:

The Nigerian USA community has started their biggest manhunt for missing Tosin Oyelowo. Oyelowo, a graduate of University of Charleston West Virginia School of Pharmacy was said to have got missing on December 9th, 2011.

In his Sunday Trust and Sunday Vanguard “Point Blank” column of December 11, 2011, the former Director General of the NTA, Mr. Tonnie Iredia took a moral high ground and subtly called for the resignation of the current Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayya Ahmed Rufai over the latest strike by the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The remains of Prince Bello Afegbua, a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, will be interred today at Okpella, a border village between Kogi and Edo States of Nigeria. He had died penultimate week at Irrua Specialist Hospital in Edo State after a brief illness, marking the end of an era and a journey that saw him dominate his environment for 80 years on this putrid plane.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Mommy… I forgot to tell you that someone slapped me in school yesterday…” Who? I queried; she told me. What did you do? “Nothing, I cried.” “Did you tell your teacher? I tried to tell my teacher but she wouldn’t listen to me; she told me to go and sit down…”

Someone has said that if a trillion dollar bills were laid tip to tip in a row, it would go right round the world seventeen times. In these days of calculators and computers it would be fun to find out the truth about that statement. Just multiply the length of a dollar bill by one trillion and divide that by the circumference of the globe, and bob’s your uncle!

On Sunday, December 18, 2011, a new vista will open in Nollywoodwhen Muveez and Jamz Vendors Limited celebrates the patrons of the movie industry. The company will be giving away a brand new Kia Rio saloon car and other prizes in a promo to formally launch one of Nollywood best movies that hit the cinemas during this year titled “Kiss and Tell”.

Onyebuchi Ojieh, stage name “BUCHI” is one of Nigeria’s finest comedians. He was born in the late 70s into a family of five, he is the second child. He grew up in the south side city of Warri in Delta state. He attended the Ambrose Ali University in Edo state where he obtained two degrees, Executive Diploma in Criminology [EDCR] and an LLB.

While on official assignment to Nigeria from her former office, National Geographic, Pannaz Pahnam met her husband, a Lebanese whom she later married.But while trying to settle in Nigeria, she encountered some difficulties…Truly, in a big city like Lagos, only a foreigner knows what it is truly like to be lost. Pannaz tells her story.

Makurdi Benue State Deputy Governor, Chief Steve Lawani in this chat with Saturday Vanguard spoke on the protracted political crisis between the PDP and the ACN, and the alleged certificate forgery leveled against Governor Gabriel Suswam by the opposition in the state and other burning issues. Excerpt:

Secretary of the Weightlifting Federation of Nigeria, Ms Uche Onwumeh has disclosed that coaches and referees of the federation will be taught on the latest techniques of the sports next year by the International Weightlifting Federation and the Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation.

Bassey felt a gentle touch on his right shoulder and he managed to open his eyes as he turned from a side of the bed. Though he couldn’t see clearly now but he still managed to identify this young lady in immaculate white urging him to prepare to take his bath with her soft and caring voice.

The only constant thing in life is change, but whether it is good or bad, whether we choose to embrace or reject it is the question. With the passage of time, we have seen changes in the world around us that we never thought would happen.