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.

LIKE Macbeth in one of Shakespeare’s epic dramas, erstwhile Minister of Federal Capital Territory and Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai appears to have murdered sleep and will find it difficult to sleep as he continues to receive knocks from different Christian groups and individuals following his comments in an interview he granted Saturday Sun recently.

The Nigeria Boxing Federation, NBF has invited 30 boxers and four coaches to camp ahead of the forthcoming International Amateur Boxing Association, IABA World Championship holding in Almaty, Kazakhstan from October 10-27, 2013.