The commercial city of Onitsha and indeed the whole of Anambra State was set agog yesterday as the gubernatorial candidate of Labour Party in the forthcoming election, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, flagged-off his campaign.

Professor Ben Nwabueze, the leader of the Patriots, dissects Nigeria in a keynote address at the National Summit on the Future of the country. Extracts:

Stage performance in theaters in the country for some time now have suffered a setback which gave room to the thrive of home videos and indigenous movies. Despite the efforts of the Theater masters like Hubert Ogunde and alike, not much has been done to revamp the industry which draws formidable crowd to National Theater and other Art centers as it was then.

Respected Nigeria football aficionado,Chief Adegboyega Onigbinde is hopeful that the outcome of FIFA’s query to Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi over alleged racial slur on Belgian-born coach Tom Saintfeit, will not affect the fortunes of the team in the 2014 World Cup qualification play-offs.

The first of six children, stylish Bunmi Adeboye is a 1995 Microbiology graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-Ife. She thereafter veered into the banking industry where she carved a niche for herself as a marketer with savvy until she voluntarily resigned 15 years later to channel her imaginative prowess into her first love- events decoration. This gave birth to Stylista, a flourishing events company already servicing the crème de la crème of the society in less than two years! A happily-married mother of two, Bunmi who turns forty on September this week had an encounter with Vista Woman in her office in Lagos. Enjoy!

“0803-307-2836 …You are quite right about the quality of private universities in Ghana and those in Nigeria and it’s no brainer to say there’s no comparison. Most of the ones in Ghana are not better than glorified secondary schools in terms of infrastructure and course contents. I should know, because I was in that country to inspect a few on behalf of my son…Mike Oteri.

As a player, Enyimba of Aba coach, Salisu Yusuf won the Federation Cup twice and he is banking on that experience to have one over Warri Wolves in today’s final at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.

As the dust raised by the mid-term report of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Executive Council settles, the case for a similar report by the National Assembly has become imperative. The case is made all the more compelling by the fact that the legislative arm of government claims to being the embodiment of the sovereign will of the Nigerian people. In particular, the South-east is in dire need of periodic assessment of its representatives at the National Assembly, given the marginalization of the zone in numerical terms in both chambers.

NATIONAL President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor last Sunday urged Christians to ignore enemies of the Church who have continued to preach heresies just because they have access to influential media.

“Nigerians are what they are because their leaders are not what they should be”
“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.”- Chinua Achebe

WHEN the Federal Government, in June, announced that it would launch the newly established Mortgage Refinance Company, MRC, by September, there were mixed feelings across the country.

One of the issues yet to be appropriately addressed in our democratic experiment is the insulation of societal institutions from partisan politics so that they can effectively perform their statutory functions. The failure to do this has been due largely to our inability to observe the fine divide between the ruling political party and the government of the day.

This is the story of two governors, one serving, one out of office. In 2008, barely a year in office, Delta State FA selected Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for a football award in their FA Cup final. The governor thanked the state FA ably led by Amaju Pinnick.

To repeat, many passages in the Holy Bible and Holy Koran prescribe intolerance against non-believers, although there are numerous texts in both scriptures that promote peace, love and solidarity as well. Therefore, it is incontrovertible that one cannot grasp fully the underlying causes of religious fanaticism in Nigeria without appreciating the role played by the “holy” scriptures in projecting the culture of religious exclusiveness.

Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun State Command has cleared some companies at the Ogun Guandong Free Trade Zone in Igbesa, in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state of sharp practices.