THE DEMOCRATIC Peoples Party (DPP) has, at an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, disbanded its merger committee formed to negotiate how the party could join the proposed All Progressive Congress (APC). It has instead outlined strategies to work with other parties in what the party referred to as a “strong and strategic third party force that will alter the present political map based on better leadership alternatives that the Nigerian people will be presented with.” It also took far-reaching decision to stem what the party called “manifest indiscipline and gross misconduct that is so strange to the DPP”.

Crude. Cruel. Absurd. Call it any of these words and many more and you won’t be wrong. Twins are still not spared in some communities in Kwali and Abaji Local Government Areas of Abuja Federal Capital Territory (FCT) decades after a Scottish missionary, Mary Slessor, championed the campaign that stopped the killing of the children in Nigeria. The story as packaged by Sunday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU AND LAIDE AKINBOADE.

The Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria are a nationality of approximately 50 million people, the vast majority of whom are concentrated primarily within Nigeria, but who are also spread throughout the entire world. They constitute probably the largest percentage of Africans that live in the diaspora and they have made their own extraordinary contributions in virtually every field of human endeavour throughout the ages.

The Keera Autism Foundation, (KAF), a not-for-profit organization, is set to embark on a massive awareness campaign to enlighten the general public on the plight of children, living with autism as well as help provide succour for both the children and family members.

UNTIL lately, the Minister of Niger-Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, was a member of the political family of the South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, in their native Delta State. Both are from the Ijaw ethnic nationality in the South Senatorial District. While Clark hails from Kiagbodo, Orubebe is from Ogbobagbene, both in Burutu Local Government Area of the state.

Saturday, May 4, 2013 made it one year since the Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, was murdered by unknown gunmen at his residence in Ugbor, GRA, Benin-City. He was shot dead in the presence of his wife, Funke. Sadly, investigations into the killing are puzzling. The Department of State Security (DSS) linked his death to armed robbery that went awry but the police declared it was pure assassination.

Substitute Ben Watson scored an injury-time winner to give Wigan Athletic a sensational 1-0 win over Manchester City at Wembley Stadium on Saturday in the biggest FA Cup final upset in 25 years.

VETERAN Nollywood actor and one of the industry’s patriarchs and pioneer role interpreters Peter Bunor has been to death and back since he was struck by a deadly stroke.

For some of us who were classroom teachers at an era when learning and the acquisition of knowledge was much sought after and desired, and both the learners and their teachers were very interested in getting things right, the current deteriorating state of our educational system, is of much concern.

First, just imagine:Abubakar Shekau, Kabiru Sokoto and Abu Qaqa stepping out of Aso Rock Presidential Villa after conferring with the President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria. Mind you, these are leaders of the Jama’ atu Ahl-Sunnati Lil Da’awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram. They have just met with Nigeria’s President of northern extraction. This is year 2020. Then imagine Qaqa, just a couple of weeks after meeting with Mr. President, coming out to threaten the country with chaos should that northern President not win a second term of office. Yet, that President carries on as if nothing is wrong; or nothing has happened.