Titilayo Oluokun, a prophetess, has pleaded with an Agege Grade ‘A’ Customary Court to dissolve her 22-year-old marriage. The 51-year-old woman, who lives at 8, Aina Aladi Street, Agbado, Lagos, told the court that her husband, a pastor, is randy.

Former Governor of Osun State and erstwhile Peoples Democratic Party National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has written to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, asking that members of the Board of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited be prosecuted as recommended by the police.

A thirteen-year-old girl, Precious Udu, who was taken from Obudu in northern Cross River State to Calabar to work as a house maid, has allegedly been bathed with hot water severely burning her neck, shoulder and chest even as she was not allowed to attend school by her mistress.

…Says he sharpened the pen of many writers …
London-based Nigerian poet and playwright, Efemena Agadama has described the demise of world literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe as a great loss not only to Africa but to the entire world.

Harambee Stars of Kenya were three minutes away from causing a major upset in African football, but Nnamdi Oduamadi spared the Super Eagles the embarrassment of losing the 2014 World Cup qualifying match at U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar.

Jesus healed one leper. Just as his adversaries were trying to decide how to handle this, he then healed ten lepers, all in one go. He hit the ball straight into the court of the Jewish religious establishment. Would they be honest enough to acknowledge to Israel that he is the long awaited Messiah?

Barely four days after the bombings in Kano which left scores dead, gunmen struck in Adamawa State.

At the end of the attack, late Friday, no fewer than 25 persons, including a former commissioner in old Gongola State, were feared dead.

Scene of attack was the headquarters of Ganye local government.
The suspected insurgents hit Adamawa just as another suicide attack was foiled by security agents in Kano yesterday.

Tributes continued to pour in for Professor Chinua Achebe yesterday.
Former governor of Lagos State, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, said the deceased was a national treasure. Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and former governor of Anambra State, Senator Chris Ngige, described him as a literary giant.

When the present National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, came on board on March 24, 2012, exactly one year ago, the National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, didn’t need any soothsayer to tell him that the challenges were enormous and that the party also required true reconciliation as well as bring back into the fold of the PDP family aggrieved members following irreconcilable differences arising from party congresses, primaries and the emergence of the present leadership where many were coerced to step down especially for the positions of National Chairman and Secretary.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alh. Bamangar Tukur, yesterday, said the party would face a “heavy” war ahead of the 2015 elections, saying “ there is a group that just came up (ostensibly referring to APC) and wants to sweep the mat off our feet”.

Alhaji Maitama Sule, eminent politician and former Nigerian ambassador to the United Nations (UN), is not dead, according to Project Nigeria.

A statement, last night, by the group which he co-chairs, said the elder statesman, contrary to a claim that he was dead, was hale and hearty.

A university don, Prof. Akinwumi Isola, has raised the alarm over the looming extinction of Yoruba and other indigenous languages in Nigeria.

According to him, failure of the people to speak Yoruba language to the young ones was capable of wiping out the language.

Isola, a literature icon and professor of language, said this at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko while delivering the 4th convocation lecture of the institution, which was presented in Yoruba language and entitled, ‘Kini A fee Maa Fii Ede Yoruba Se?’He expressed concern that the country did not learn a lesson from China, which, he said, was able to achieve the present level of development because the people use their mother tongue for education and other transactions.

Six months! That is how long it has taken Sunday Vanguard to carry out its investigations (which are still on-going) into activities at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, specifically the Office of the Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega. Though two years away, the 2015 elections may be in danger of being rigged systematically in view of the processes and procedures set up by the commission.

Barr. Patrick Obahiagbon (Igodomigodo) is the Chief of Staff to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and a strong believer in the ability of the newly formed All Progressive Congress (APC) to kick out the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Presidency in 2015. In this interview, the former House of Representatives member scores the federal administration, led by the PDP, low in terms of delivering dividends of democracy. He also speaks on the tax regime in Edo State and the April 20 local government elections in the state. Excerpts:

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said that no political party with acronym “APC” has been registered. .