South African police fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas on Saturday to disperse a protest by striking miners accusing union leaders of betraying worker interests.

As the controversy created by Chinua Achebe’s new book, “THERE WAS A COUNTRY”, rages, social critic and poet, Odia Ofeimun – who has been thrown in the eye of the storm because of his first reaction which sought to exonerate Pa Obafemi Awolowo, who served as Vice Chairman to the ruling body of the Nigerian government and whom Achebe accused of war crimes because of the Nigerian government’s war-time policy which allegedly led to the starving of Igbos – presents in this piece never-before-revealed perspectives.

Some lawyers in Lagos on Saturday expressed concern over the increasing rate of divorce in Nigeria.

When the news filtered into town that a man had pushed his wife into a completely filled pit latrine resulting to her death, the story sounded bizarre.

Vice President Atiku Abubakar has congratulated  the Archbishop of Abuja, the Very Reveren d John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan following his  elevation as Cardinal by the Catholic Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI.