Stella Agbogun, District Governor of 404B of the Lions Club, with her team, visited the Kogi flood victims and presented food items and materials worth over N3million to them. In this encounter, she shares her team’s experience on the visit.

In the introductory epigram to this piece, I invoke the Restoration poet Dryden, poet of the Carolingian courts, who knew a thing or two about gluttony under the excess appetites of Charles II of England. “O gluttony, it is to thee we owe our griefs” laments Geoffrey Chaucer. Gluttony and Greed are Siamese twins.

Ahead of the annual Widows Day organized by the Roses Ministry, a faith-based non-profit organization, Mrs. Regina Ezenwa, the National Co-ordinator, gives an insight into the event billed for this Thursday at the National Population Commission in Lagos. Over 500 widows are expected to gather at the event. Enjoy!

I thought Chinua Achebe has rattled Nigerian sensitivities with his recent book, ‘There was a country’ until I read Emmanuel Osuchukwu’s ‘1966 Crisis and the Evolution of Nigerian Politics’. The book is insightful and did not spare any punches in discussing vital aspects of Nigerian history and politics.

The birthday gift of a private jet presented by a member of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri and chairman of the committee of the procurement of the jet, Kevin Nwachukwu, to Pastor Ayodele Joseph Oritsejafor, the head of the church and the national president of Christian Association of Nigeria, on Saturday, November 10, has generated a lot of controversy. In this interview, Oritsejafor tells the story of how the jet was acquired.

Perhaps, some columnists would need to be re-educated to understand the harm in over-generalisation. Being a columnist does not give any individual the magna charta to write about fellow individuals as if playing god.

A professor of political economy and management expert , Prof. Pat Utomi, has faulted Federal Government’s effort to combat human trafficking, describing it as half- hearted insisting that there is a disconnect between government and the people.

As a morale booster for his State’s athletes at the National Sports Festival beginning in Lagos on Tuesday, the Borno State governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima has promised them Naira rain if they excel in the biennial event.

This book has 105 pages and it’s a Step Out of Creative publication based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This is the first book by Mercy Tola Ojumu. From the beginning of the book, it is obvious that the author has great burden for women.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, Saturday, commended the University of Benin (UNIBEN) for being the best university in the country and sub-Sahara Africa and urged other Nigerian universities to live up to the standard required for the growth of education in the country.

The Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro’s recent visits to Austria and Slovakia have been of tremendous benefit to the Nigerian people .The visits, which were at the instance of the Austrian and Slovak governments, afforded the Minister to address the concerns of Nigerians in those countries at a high level of government. The Austrian trip was subsequent to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the government of that country and Nigeria in Abuja on June 8, 2012.The agreement seeks to facilitate the repatriation of citizens residing irregularly in the territory of each of the two countries and to treat such persons in a manner which is dignified and guarantees their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Seeing the wobbling feet and the feeble hands of the aged people gathered at Jakande,Isolo in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State by Centre for Happy Elderly People, CHEP, under the leadership of Deaconess (Mrs.) Lilian Jirigho, was a pitiable experience. A country like Nigeria where many of the senior citizens that have spent all their productive years in the service of government or in the private sector could not afford shelter, food and medication.

A Lagos Grade ‘A’ Customary Court sitting in Agege dissolved a 20-year-old marriage over battery, adultery and threat to life. The court president, Mr. Emmanuel Shokunle, said the marriage had broken down irretrievably, adding: “From today, you cease to be husband and wife, you shall go your separate ways. ”

A 34-year-old man, Mr. Sunday lgbauma, told an Agege Grade A Customary Court that his wife, Oluwakemi dragged him around with his sexual organ whenever they had misunderstanding.

CATHOLIC Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, Saturday, in a solemn ceremony at the St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, created 22 new cardinals including the Metropolitan and Archbishop of Abuja, Archbishop John Olufemi Onaiyekan.