IN this interview with Ben Agande in Abuja, founder and General Overseer of the Day Spring Christian Ministries International, Pastor Charles Olowojoba, speaks on a wide range of issues, saying contrary to the fears being expressed in certain circles, Nigeria will continue to remain one indivisible country and that the 2015 election will not only be free and fair, but it will not be bloody.

Support has come for the Labour Party candidate Ifeanyi Ubah in the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election from Chief Sunday Akabueze. Speaking to newsmen in Awka the Anambra State capital, Akabueze, the Chief Executive Officer of Sakab International Limited, said his support for the Labour Party governorship candidate stemmed from the fact that Ubah is the only candidate who can the state.

Masked attackers stormed a packed upmarket shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday, spraying gunfire and killing 30 people and wounding dozens more before holing themselves up in the complex.

Dr Wale Ahmed is Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties. Ahead of the demolition of some defective buildings at Oke Afa, Isolo, he presented N200,000 each to the occupants to relocate. In this piece, he explains how the state government is assisting victims of emergencies even as he appeals to Lagosians(particularly those in flood prone areas) to relocate because of the anticipated intensity of forthcoming rains.

Chelsea ended a run of four winless games to beat Fulham 2-0 and move to the top of the Premier League on Saturday, after Southampton stunned previous leaders Liverpool.

The eerie calm in the security and socio-political space of Kaduna State, on Monday, burst into cataclysmic political excitement never seen since the death of its former governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, and the swearing-in of his deputy, Alh. Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, last December, to succeed him.

IF the on–going crisis in the Anambra State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over who should be its flag bearer for the November 16 election is not resolved in the next few weeks, the party would have made itself a less contender in the impending governorship race. For now, supporters of the party in Anambra State are confused and it is therefore not surprising that many of them have become willing tools for swelling campaign rally grounds of other political parties. A typical example was the flag off of the LP governorship campaign in Onitsha on Thursday where many former members of PDP were seen adorned in Ifeanyi Ubah’s uniforms and caps and directing affairs.

THESE are not be the best of times for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the self acclaimed largest party in Africa and its managers following the lingering crisis and the in-house bickering.

In the last couple of weeks, the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee, NWC, has been entangled in a debacle in which some party leaders try to outdo one another. At the heart of it all is the issue of who controls the machinery of the party ahead of the 2015 general elections.

Did anybody recognize Hon. Binta Garba last week? She was unmistakable. You couldn’t have missed her in the recording which revealed her wrestling and hard-hitting abilities. Ask Hon.Hafiz Adenowo from Oyo State: He not only got his cloths torn by Binta, a few slaps were added.

In the aftermath of the bloody conflicts of 1991 – 93, the bloodiest in the country’s more than 3,000 years of recorded history, the people of Ethiopia faced the fundamental issue squarely, and the solution they worked out at meetings of the ethnic nationalities, based on the tragic lessons of the bloody conflicts, was embodied in the 1995 Constitution, which is still, 17 years after (1995 – 2012), the basis of the continued corporate existence of the diverse “Nations, Nationalities and Peoples” comprised in Ethiopia.