It was natural that Blessing Okagbare became emotional exactly two week ago. What Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan did overwhelmed her and she strongly fought back tears. When the emotions got the greater part of her the tears flowed.

TWO months after the controversial deportation of Igbo residents, Governor Babatunde Fashola, Thursday, rendered an unreserved apology to the Igbos over the July 24 dumping of some alleged destitute in Onitsha, Anambra State by his administration, saying, “the action of our government was misunderstood.”

World Scrabble players have vowed to give World Champion Nigel Richards the fight of his life, just as Governor Godswill Akpabio has declared that the Godswill international classics will outlive him.

THERE was nervous serenity in Kokori, the country home of the most wanted kidnapper/armed robbery kingpin in DeltaState, Kelvin Oniarah, 24 hours after he was arrested, Wednesday, at a hotel in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, where he was taking cover with his comrades-in-arms.

GOING to Apapa from any part of Lagos is akin to travelling through the biblical “valley of the shadow of death.”