Lagos State government has announced a performance of 89 percent for the 2012 budget, the highest since the inception of the administration in 2007.

Watchers of the unfolding drama in Mali, where reports emerged at the weekend that the leader of Boko Haram Islamic Sect was shot and injured in a combat with members of joint task force, may be having a second thought about their misgivings of Nigeria’s decision to participate in the West African military intervention in the drought and poverty stricken Sahel country.

With case file CR:3000/X/FHQ/ABJ/FSARS/VOL.T1/90, dated August 1, 2012, in respect of the matter of the killing of Olaitan Oyerinde, wherein it was reported that a total of 16 witnesses and 18 suspects were interrogated, including Mrs. Funke Oyerinde, Sunday Vanguard presents you a report whose investigation spanned four weeks of rigorous work. It is about the bungling of an investigation, the reasons of which are yet to be properly explained because of the massive incongruity in the report of the investigation. It will shock you.

Ogochukwu Promise (Phd) is a Fiction writer, playwright, poet and essayist. She is the founder and coordinator of The Lumina Foundation which instituted the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. She also edits and publishes the literary magazine, The Lumina, as well as The Promise Magazine.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State last October marked his two years in office. In this interview, Fayemi reflects on the challenges of the 24 months as the chief helmsman of his state. He also speaks on his endorsement for second term by his party, Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN), based on the mid term report of his administration.

Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, like many other Nigerians, is worried about the challenge of insurgency staring the nation in the state. He is even more worried that one of the institutions under his supervision, the Immigration Service, has a role to play in curbing the insecurity posed by insurgents.
In this interview, the minister speaks on the measures taken by government on insurgency and the other mandates of his ministry, especially on prison and the fire service.

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, escaped death, yesterday, as gunmen, operating on motocycle (Okada), opened fired on his convoy. The incident occurred when the monarch was leaving Masalacin Murtala area of the Kano metropolis where he had gone to attend a Qur’anic graduation ceremony.

Reconstruction of social and historical account of African traditional societies is an enterprise that ought to be thriving in an environment that has over the centuries groaned under the perfidy of discovering themselves through the eye of writers outside their cultural experience, but more importantly, at a time when studying history as an academic discipline has been outlawed.

I am very sad and disturbed that we have not achieved much in the past 52 years. On my own assessment of how far we have gone in 50 years of independence, I will say we have gone some way but not very far in the area of women’s participation in politics and in governance.

COME Tuesday, February 5, 2013, the open-ing ceremony of the 12th national biennial confer-ence of the umbrella body of Pentecostalism in Nigeria, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, will take place at the Uyo Sports Stadium, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.