Delta State has taken the driver’s seat at the Eko 2012 National Sports Festival and an elated governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan declared during a surprise visit to Delta State contingent in Lagos, that Delta will win the sports fiesta hands down and dethrone boastful Rivers State.

He had just been made a Sergeant two months ago.
And he had served the Nigeria Army for 19years.
That was the once exciting life of Sergeant (Sgt) Emmanuel Stephen.
All that gone like a candle light in the wind!
Last Tuesday evening, a sombre, small crowd of mourners gathered in front of Sergeant Stephen’s House at Block 87, Other Ranks Quarters, Command and Staff College, Jaji.

The man Professor Ben Enwonwu, (Member of the British Empire), almost two decades after his transition remains an icon and a reference point in the annals of Visual Arts in Nigeria. Under him I first worked when I left Zaria. Indeed he was truly a mentor and a man whose influence on me remains till today. Through his mentoring, I came to realize the importance and power of mentoring in the lives of young protégés.

It was a well planned operation by bandits. The dare-devil robbers, numbering about 50, stormed Auchi, Edo State, in a bus and three Camry cars loaded with dynamites and bombs. They unleashed mayhem on three new generation banks and one old generation bank.

In what is apparently a fallout of the suicide bombings of a church in the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), yesterday, removed two top military officials from their posts.