He made to escape from death, but it would seem death was determined not to spare him on that fateful Sunday night. Hearing gunshots from a nearby house, 80-year old Da Dung Bot Gwom, the village head of Tapo in Heipang District of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area did not want to leave anything to chance.

Turning in a widening gyre, the falcon could not hear the falconer, things fall apart and the center could not hold , mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth, that is the W. B. Yeats lines that announced the title of the famous book written by the Iroko of African and world literature Professor Chnualumogu Achebe, 82, who passed to the land of the spirits yesterday in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sun set for Professor Chinua Achebe and the world is full of tributes and recollections of the poet, the broadcaster, the critic and the progressive politician and above all the master of prose, when shall we have another?

Sadiq Adetumobi,23 is currently cooling his heels at the State Criminal Investigations Department,SCID,over the recovery of stolen fabrics worth millions of naira in his possession.

On the day that Saudi Arabia announced the beheading of seven men for stealing, Nigeria announced a presidential pardon that included two people who were convicted for stealing.

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe,Professor of English, one of the greatest novelists of the modern era and often hailed as the Father of African literature, had been ill for a long time before he finally succumbed on Friday, March 22nd 2013.

Too much talking developed after it became concrete Kenya’s Harambee Stars will play newly crowned African Champions, the Super Eagles of Nigeria. The Kenyans did most of the babbling perhaps to shore up their confidence.

The last is yet to be heard of the presidential pardon granted some Nigerians for sins committed in the past years.

Chidi Otumba is a financial and management consultant with deep interest in business, information technology and financial forensics. He is the Managing Consultant/CEO of Treasurehall Consulting. As a chartered accountant, he has the honour of being vice Chairman, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Amuwo & District Society, which has about 300 chartered accountants as registered members spread across Isolo, Okota, Amuwo, Ojo and environs.

Hilary Ogbuagu known by many with the name El Levite, is a young man of many parts. He is a talented songwriter, recording artiste with a unique flair for Gospel Reggae, music director and a dancehall artiste. El Levite had his primary and secondary school education at Central school Ibenda, Obollo Eke and Obollo High school, Obollo-Eke respectively, both in Udenu LGA of Enugu State. He is a graduate of History and International Relations of Lagos State University. He tells Youthful Vibes about his growing interest and love for gospel music, and how it has inspired so many youth to make a difference. Excerpts:

AS the death toll in Monday’s bomb blasts at a bus park in Kano rises to 110, President of the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Evangelist Elliot Uko, has urged Igbo youths to remain calm and await the decision of Igbo leaders next week. In a chat with reporters, Uko holds northern leaders and politicians responsible for the Boko Haram insurgency, saying that sponsors of the sect have murdered sleep.

Few days after staging a superlative Festival of Love Valentine show in Abuja, one of Nigeria’s most resourceful comedians, Julius Agwu is gearing up for the Port Harcourt edition of Laff 4 Christ Sake, another popular event brand from his stable. Having held in London and Lagos, this is the first time Laff 4 Christ Sake will be holding in Port-Harcourt.

The Local Organising Committee for the Africa Athletics Youth Championships, AYAC 2013 in Warri will begin to feel the heat of the continental event when 15 countries arrive Nigeria on Sunday for the athletics show.

AS the Super Eagles battle the Harambee Stars of Kenya today in a 2014 World Cup qualifier at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar, ex international, Tony Ukeachu has said that they must play a high tempo game and make the visitors feel the pressure all the way.

Achebe’s remarkable journey into the creative turf began in 1958 with the publication of classical novel Things Fall Apart. Set in the fictional community of Umofia, the novel anthropologically explores the Igbo life completely destroyed by the arrival of the White man, whose coming into the peaceful community created serious socio, political and cultural conflicts. The novel, using the character of its hero, Okonkwo presented the continent ofAfrica in its realistic portrait against the background of permittivity and uncultured painted in the narratives of Western writers.

The stage is set again, and the topic currently dominating discourse in most quarters in the industry is the possibility of Rita Dominic writing her name in gold as the best actress in Africa.