Moments after his wards silenced the mouthy Malawians in a 2014 World Cup Cup qualifier at the U.J. Esuene Stadium Saturday to move into the final round of the qualifiers, Super Eagles Chief Coach, Stephen Keshi said he was ready to face any opponent to pick one of the five tickets reserved for Africa.

MEMBERS of the Knighthood Order of St Paul (KSP) in the Benin Catholic Archdiocese, Saturday, condemned the call for the removal of the Catholic Archbishop of Benin Archdiocese, Dr Augustine Akubueze, describing the call as ungodly and a taboo in the church.

The Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, has pleaded with members of Boko Haram to stop killing people, saying no one can fight for God.

Nze Akachukwu Nwankpo, a Knight of St John International (KSJI), is a scholar of human nature and a conflict resolution expert. Apart from his years as a consultant in the private sector, he served in the highest executive arm of government during which he was Special Adviser to the President and served in various critical committees of government including Committee on Niger Delta militants, Presidential Task Force on Power and SURE-P.

The Special Mini Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to fill some positions in the party’s National Executive has come and gone. Whether or not the party deserves commendation can be viewed from two standpoints. The first and perhaps the more obvious is that which believes that to congratulate the party on the event does not in essence arise. This is because there was nothing special about the convention as its title tended to impute. The correct title should have been “PDP Repeat Convention”.

Chico Ejiro is one of the most prolific Nollywood producers who has become a household name in Nigeria and beyond. He met his wife, Joy, in 1994, and wedded her in 1998.They have four children. Zeb Ejiro, the best-known of the new Nigerian cinema auteurs outside of the country, and Peter Red Ejiro, another Nigerian movie producer are his two elder brothers. Chico and his wife take us through the journey of their marriage.

She started out humbly as a classroom teacher in the 80s and today she’s one of the influential women in the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria where she represents Kaltungo/Shongom constituency of Gombe State. Hon.(Mrs.)Binta Maigari Bello currently Chairs the House Committee on Women in Parliament-WIP. A rare politician who has successfully combined politics with gentility in a notoriously violent political sphere such as Nigeria’s, Binta’s passion for community service dates back to her days as a child when she dreamed of alleviating the sufferings of her people each time she visited the village with her parents.

Every monumental task I have assigned myself on this page, since the first article appeared in August 1994, always calls for too quotations. It invariably marks my departure from the tedium of present economic, social and political crises on which everybody is focused – especially my co-columnists writing for every paper.

Declan Chukwuma Umege is a practicing Health Safety and Environmental professional. A University of Nigeria, Nsukka graduate of Microbiology and Masters degree in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Management, University of Portsmouth UK. As someone who has lived and worked in Niger Delta and seen the effects of oil pollution there, Declan recently came out with a book titled Muffled Voices, that tells the story of environmental and human rights crimes committed by oil companies against their host nation. In this chat, the Imo State born upcoming author explains why he wrote the book and other sundry issues.

Caught In The Storms is a non fiction authored by a budding writer, Amaka Ezenwankwo, an Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) graduate of Mass Communication, who though expresses herself in key genres of Literature, flaunts a bias for prose and poetry.

This new father was shocked when he rushed to the hospital to view his first child and he found his wife in tears. When he asked her what the matter was, she pointed silently at the cot beside her bed and continued sobbing. The man looked into the cot, saw the baby and sprang back in horror. He didn’t sob, but looked downcast as he went to lean against the wall. A nurse who came in saw the abject misery on the faces of the couple and she tried to assure them that the severe case of harelip that their son had, can be corrected by surgery, and that the child was healthy in all other respects.

METHODIST Church Nigeria, announced the election of a new Prelate who will run the affairs of the church for the next five years. In a keenly contested election during the 44th special conference of the church which ended on Sunday night Archbishop Samuel Chukwuemeka Kalu Uche emerged the new Prelate and head of Methodist Church Nigeria.

A couple of days ago, I was watching Al jazeera, where the presenter, had mentioned a special feature exchanging information about the current situation that Nigerian university students who are facing prolong the Nigerian’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike.

Junior athlete, Aminat Olowora won three gold medals for Lagos State at the 2012 National Sports Festival and a lot of promises were made by Lagos State sports officials to the athlete, but last Sunday as she competed at the Africa junior championships in Mauritius, Olowora was a shadow of herself.

Mr. Paul Odili is Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s Communication Manager. In this interview, he speaks on the performance of the Delta State government under Uduaghan and the fate of the newly registered All Progressive Party (APC) in the state. Excerpts: