Footballers are celebrated for scoring great goals against opponents. But when a player scores an incredible own goal, does he deserve a pat on the back? Should the goal be judge for what it is, GREAT goal?

Lagos State Government, weekend, urged residents not to panic as the rainy season began, assuring that any flash flood recorded during any rainfall, would be temporary as the government had done what was needed to ensure the flood did not last.

Human rights organisation, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiatives, YCRI, Sunday, berated the north and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for kicking against the call for imposition of emergency rule in some volatile states in the northern part of the country.

The Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has said that he has no interest in contesting the presidential election in 2015. Rather, he would only vie for the senatorial seat of his state as requested and endorsed by his people.

The Federal government, Sunday, debunked reports in the media (not Vanguard) that it plans to declare a state of emergency in five states of the federation owing to security challenges in the states.