Did the wicked pastors, bishops and general overseers who conspired to have Jesus crucified really know he is the Messiah?  Yes they did.  Would they in their right minds dare to kill the son of God?  Yes they would

For a politician who believes in the sanctity of the state and its machinery, perhaps many have come to confuse the role and personality of Chief Anthony Akhakon Anenih. But to those in the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, he epitomises experience and loyalty. Since 1998 when the party was formed, Anenih remains perhaps one of the very few – very, very few – members who have never contemplated decampment as a directive policy of politicking.

National Institute for Cultural Orientation’s (NICO) bid to actualising its aim of harnessing Nigeria’s cultural resources to meeting the challenges of social integration, peace, unity and national development got a boost last week when it matriculated about seventy students into its 2012/2013 Diploma and post graduate Diploma programmes.

It is a cheery news for Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi as the team’s top striker, Emmanuel Emenike has returned to action after suffering a hamstring injury at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.

After the disappointment of not participating at the London 2012 Olympics despite earning qualification, Nigeria Aquatics Federation president, Babatunde Fatai-Williams declared that Nigeria swimmers will return to the Olympics and make an impact in Rio 2016.

Local and international road runners are angling to participate in the maiden Okpekpe road race billed for April 13 in Okpekpe, Edo State.

In what is apparently a hurried exit from earth, a 65-yr-old woman, described as the daughter of the late Ukpe clan head, Madam Alice Obeng, yesterday, committed suicide by hanging in Bayobri community in Ukpe, Obudu local government area of Cross River State.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Saturday, said Nigeria lacks good leadership to administer her enormous potentials.

Obasanjo, who identified lack of quality leadership, among other factors, as major hindrances to development in Nigeria as well as other African countries, lamented the lack of leadership that could harness the resources to the point of noticeable development.

Mr Oseloka Henry Obaze, until mid last year, was a United Nations employee. He is one of those who responded to Governor Peter Obi’s call to Anambra State indegenes in diaspora to come home to assist in building the state. He was appointed secretary to the state government in June last year. In this interview, Obaze speaks on the challenges of changing the mindset of the people in taking ownership of government.

ON the eve of 100 years of amalgamation of Southern and Northern Protectorates to form Nigeria and ahead of the 2015 general elections, eminent Nigerians, who converged on Enugu for the 14th National Convention of the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, recently, had one demand. They want the Federal Government to organize a national conference for Nigerians to discuss the multifarious challenges facing the country and hammer out solutions. Without this, they feared that the country might implode.

Chad has claimed it had killed top al-Qaeda leader in North Africa, Mokhtar Belmokhtar in northern Mali.

The avoidable but raging war among the governors, particularly those of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, which culminated in the birth of PDP Governors’ Forum from the all-influential Nigerian Governors’ Forum, led by the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, last week, points to a crack in the political machinery of the PDP and threatens to cause a major leakage in the party’s umbrella, if the discontentment among the contending forces is not well managed before the dawn of the 2015 polls.

Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, is a fearless man, who shoots straight on matters of national interest without looking back. For that reason, he has come to be admired, and loathed by Nigerians depending on where they stand. Since the controversy over President Goodluck Jonathan’s qualification to contest in 2015 broke out, Mohammed, a Russian-trained medical doctor-turned political commentator and analyst, has maintained his position that Jonathan is not qualified to run in the next election. In this interview, Mohammed also gives reasons why the newly-formed All Progressive Congress (APC) may make waves and why it may fail.

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has claimed that Real Madrid tend to get the big decisions from referees after his side were denied a last minute penalty in their 2-1 defeat to Real Madrid.

Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, a lawyer and politician, is a man who does not shy away from his duty. As the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, he is naturally responsible for the political decisions taken by President Goodluck Jonathan. With the emergence of the All Progressive Congress, APC, and the insistence of some politicians that Jonathan should not contest the 2015 election, Gulak says the President is entitled to run in the poll. The presidential aide asserts that it would be wrong for any Nigerian or group to abridge Jonathan’s tenure on account of the fact that he came in by circumstance to serve out the remainder of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Ádua’s tenure.