A video showing Nollywood bad boy Jim Iyke in a deliverance session at the Synagogue Church of all Nations has surfaced online.

This is not a movie. The video captured the actor thrashing about and in fits as a group of men believed to be part of a prayer team at the church battled to restrain him while another continued to scream “Out!!”

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said neither Boko Haram or any group can frustrate the country from attaining it’s deserved place in the comity of nations.

HAVING taken a cursory assessment of Nigeria as it celebrates the 53rd Independence anniversary,  former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday gave a verdict that Nigerians have lost faith in their government because of what he termed this lack of vision on the part of the government in the management of the nation’s political, economic and social affairs.

THE easiest way to get away with anything is to claim you are acting against a terrorist. Once the charge is pressed, with the attendant publicity, the onus is on the suspect to extricate himself from the allegation.

Five foreign nationals, who allegedly specialised in conveying petroleum products from pipeline vandals to BeninRepublic, have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy Task Force in Badagry area of Lagos State.

Four Nigerian banks may lose N88 billion in revenue to the proposed phase out of Commission on Turnover, COT, charges. This may give rise to a minimum rate on savings accounts that could raise interest expense by the banks to N22 billion in 2013, a recent report by HSBC on four out of the twenty-four Nigerian banks has revealed.

ANTAGONISM against Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has assumed a new twist with a group, Rivers Integrity and Development Forum, RIDF, calling on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe the governor over alleged financial abuses of the state’s resources.

Julia Oyefunke Fortune, author of ‘Chronicle of a Cancer Survivor’ and a volunter for cancer and legislative ambassador for the American Cancer Society, tells the story of her battle with cancer and her campaign against the disease.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, the Intercontinental Lagos built at a cost of N30 billion.

All Progressives Congress, APC, weekend, raised fresh alarm over alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Presidency to rig the 2015 general elections, especially the presidential poll.

Kidnappers of an Edo State High Court Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, abducted on his way to resume at the Ekpoma Division of the high court last week, are yet to make contact with the family.

Fiscal and monetary policies are the instruments government use to manage the economy. The main focus of economic policy is the over all well being of the citizenry. Economic policy worldwide is meant to gear the economy towards full employment of resources, stable prices, balanced growth, and a favourable external reserve as a back up to exchange rate stability. These overall objectives can be conflicting and it requires men and women with deep knowledge of the workings of the economy to manage the unintended outcome of policy. In Nigeria today, it will appear that monetary policy is concerned mainly with price and exchange rate stability with little concern for balanced growth and the attainment of full employment

HE finds it very convenient to clear the cargo in Lagos and spends about N300,000 or more to bring it to this part of the country and still makes profits.

THE Abubakar Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, raised alarm of alleged moves to crack down on its members across the country by the presidency by committing the leadership to prison, just as it urged all its leaders and members to, as a matter of urgency, write their wills.

EkitiState Governor Kayode Fayemi and his OndoState counterpart, Olusegun Mimiko, will today, speak at a day of tributes for the late former Ondo State Governor Olusegun Agagu.