While he was enjoying the perks of public office, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode did not call for the break-up of Nigeria; he in fact earned a reputation as an attack-dog for the president and the government of the day, which for him was the meaning of Nigeria. A child of privilege, Mr. Fani-Kayode has, it seems, often taken it for granted that Nigeria would always carter to his desires. It was not, as is often expected of his peers in other places, about public service. It was always about the convenience of his claims to unearned privileges. His father, the late Remilekun, was a great prop for privilege too. He trained as a lawyer in Cambridge. Even made a decent second. But his greatest accomplishment was not alas in law; it was in politics and the vice that accompanies it.

The people of Ikeinghenbiri in Southern Ijaw Council area of Bayelsa State have expressed concern over the slow response of Nigerian Agip Oil Company to last week oil spill in their community. They lamented that the spill from Agip’s oil field, noticed on Monday, had impacted their community negatively. Deputy paramount ruler of the community, Chief Collins Adikoko, said, yesterday, at the riverside Ikeinghenbiri that though they had reported the spill to the oil firm, it was yet to be fixed.

The story continued by reporting that Mr Fidelis Chukwujindu and his accomplice, Mrs Ngozi Ayoha, operating University College Hospital Ogboko, Ideato, P.O. Box 1960 (Nigeria’s year of independence if you don’t remember), Orlu, Imo State, had collected N8,000 from prospective candidates this year alone for application fees alone.

Whenever we seem to be on the right track in our thinking and actions, some people, out of personal glory, want to throw spanners into the works and in the process cause the derailment of a worthy cause.

Sometime ago, the federal government announced that it would celebrate the centenary of Nigeria. When I read that in the newspapers, my mind went to work.

An Edo North based socio-political group, Edo North Consultative Forum (ECF), has dismissed claim that the Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, was not qualified to vote in the last Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Special National Convention that took place in Abuja.

The Nigerian simply adjusts. He\she shakes off every volley of disaster, disgrace no matter how audacious. It simply rolls off the back of the Nigerian. Not so long ago, there were lines we did not cross as children, adults and as people. Now those lines have either disappeared or have been disregarded all together.

The fear of the National Assembly seems to have become the beginning of wisdom in the Presidency. Since the resumption of the federal lawmakers from their annual vacation, there has been tension that the on-going crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will rub-off on the federal legislature.

Ex-International, Garba Lawal, has told Nigerian football administrators and Super Eagles coaches, never to handle Ethiopia with kid gloves but to get the Eagles in real killer mood in the battle for the 2014 World Cup ticket.

Dr. Godwin Oyedele Oyediji is a former chairman, Agriculture, Non-oil Export Trade Group, Lagos Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (LACCIMA). He speaks on the just concluded 19th Nigeria Economic Summit (NES), the need for government to put measures in place to revamp agriculture for large scale production, the recent loan granted Nigeria by the World Bank to boost the sector for greater productivity and the state of the economy in the third quarter of 2013.

Lance Corporal Adi of the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police (NACMP) is one of the heroes of the war against the Islamist group, Boko Haram, in the North-east. A native of Pakistan, Adi’s platoon was singled out for commendation by the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azibuike Ihejirika, for executing an operation in Maiduguri, Borno State capital..

The much publicized Native and Vogue Port Harcourt International Fashion Week, kicked off, on Friday, in Port Harcourt, with designers raising the bar with vibrant innovative collections.

The event place Aztech Arcum, venue of the show, was packed full with fashion enthusiasts and eminent citizens of the state led by its number one citizen, Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

The Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), held its 15th Convocation Lecture and the investiture of new fellows, penultimate week at the University of Lagos(UNILAG) and topping the agenda at the occasion was the need to address the decaying values of Nigeria.

TONY AFEJUKU is a Professor of English and Literature in University of Benin. A former ASUU leader, Afejuku, in this interview, says he is happy in his “ little world of poverty.” He also speaks on the recent sacking of some Itsekiri villages in Warri North local government area of Delta State, his perception of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the need for President Goodluck Jonathan to do things rightly.

The last visit of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the ceremonial president in the first republic, to Zungeru, Niger Delta, his birth place, was on November 16, 1991. It was shortly after a colourful ceremony organised to raise funds to build Zik Centre, located in the town, to mark his 89th birthday. Earlier during the second republic, precisely in 1983, during his political campaign to Zungeru when he was the presidential candidate of Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP), Azikiwe took time off his political schedule to visit his birth place.