“Argo,” which won best picture Oscar Sunday, tells the true story of a CIA operation to spirit six US hostages out of Iran — even if it takes liberties with history, by its makers’ own admission.

WHEN Karl Heinrich Marx, the 19th Century German Philosopher, Economist, Sociologist, Historian, Journalist and Revolutionary Socialist, declared that religion is the opium of the people, he could as well have been speaking of contemporary Nigeria and other undeveloped parts of the world.

Hon. Dakuku Peterside representing Opobo/Nkoro/Andoni federal constituency at the House of Representatives is the Chairman of the Green Chamber’s Committee on Petroleum (Downstream).

housewife, Mrs Kareen Opara, has gone underground after allegedly stabbing her son’s wife, Esther Oluchi, to death in Anguwa Baba area of Nasarawa State. But the police have launched a hot chase to fish out the suspect.

Super Eagles assistant coach, Sylvanus Okpala has said the team’s triumph in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations concluded in South Africa penultimate weekend is now history even as Nigerians continue to celebrate the feat.

No fewer than eight persons, yesterday evening, lost their lives in an auto crash which occurred along Ibadan-Lagos Expressway in Mowe, Obafemi- Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

WHENEVER a strange situation developed in the history of the Biblical Israel, their judge, ruler, or king, depending on the time in history, prayed, asking God what He was saying concerning that situation.

Three students of the Nasarawa State University were yesterday, allegedly shot by soldiers deployed to quell festering protests over water shortage on the campus located on the Keffi-Abuja Road.

No fewer than five persons were reported killed, Saturday, in Wukari, Taraba, when adherents of two religious groups engaged each other in a violent clash.

Nations Cup hero Sunday Mba yesterday, in Sunday Vanguard, said that he was a Rangers player having moved

Seven petrol tankers, weekend, got burnt at Waterside area of Kirikiri Town, Lagos, where tank farms are sited, while unspecified number of persons sustained injuries in the inferno.

District head of Madagali, in Adamawa State, Dr. Sa’ad Danburam, has been shot dead in Maiduguri, Borno State by gunmen.

THE onslaught launched against the people of Uwheru, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State by suspected Fulani herdsmen continued, weekend, with the killing of a 52-year-old man in Agadama-Uwheru

LAGOS—PRIMATE of Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, Sunday called on Nigerians especially Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion not to embrace the culture of gay marriage now rampant in Europe.

Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, weekend, condemned what it described as the excessive powers conferred on the President and Minister of Petroleum in the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, and called on the National Assembly to remove the “discretionary and excessive powers accorded to them in over all interest of the country and the petroleum industry.”