Nelson Mandela, who was discharged from a more than 80-day stay in hospital on Sunday, spent 27 years as a prisoner of apartheid before embarking on a “long walk to freedom”, becoming South Africa’s first black president and a Nobel peace laureate.

Exactly 15 years after its formal launch, the lingering crisis in the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, degenerated, yesterday, when
former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and seven governors broke away, formed a faction and named new national officers for it.

No other person in the bible writes like Paul.  Far more than everybody else, Paul talks about himself.  He is always drawing attention to himself.  His epistles are littered with “I,” “me,” “my” and “mine.” 

The World Igbo Congress (WIC) on Saturday said the learning of Igbo history and culture would become compulsory in  primary and secondary schools in Igbo speaking states of Nigeria in 2014.

The Baale of Kirikiri town, Lagos, Chief Waheed Sumonu Agunbiade, 82, and his deputy, Chief Kayode Ewarawon, are spending the weekend in prison after they were denied bail following their arraignment before a magistrate court late on Friday.

Bayelsa State government yesterday dismissed the claim that the 45years old iron bridge linking the Igbogene and Okoloibiri communities in Yenagoa local government area of the state collapse, saying it was only shut down to motorists due to noticeable defects.

No fewer than 30 suspected oil pipeline vandals were, yesterday, arrested by the officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, in Isheri-Oshun axis of Ogun-Lagos states border. This came a week after the NSCDC, Lagos command arrested eight suspected vandals in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA.

As the cliché goes, all this would have been laughable if it is not so tragic. In the heat of the subsisting venom and vitriol, it seems nobody now cares that the first set of “deportees” from Lagos were no other than Yoruba indigenes of Oyo and Osun states. I say this because this knowledge is not reflected in the way and manner protagonists have been conducting the debate on the so-called “deportation” of Igbo from Lagos.

A four-storey building under construction in Onitsha, Anambra State, collapsed after a downpour, yesterday.

Senator Muhammed Ndume – Borno South – was the Minority Leader in the House of Reps as an ANPP lawmaker before he moved to the PDP and then became a senator. His political career took a twist when he was accused of sponsoring the Boko Haram Islamist group.

The return, last Sunday, of Governor Danbaba Suntai, a pharmacist and politician, to Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, which he has been governing since year 2007, has thrown the state into turmoil, and broken the cord that once bound politicians in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, into camps – those for and against the governor and his Deputy, Garba Umar, who has been acting since his boss was involved in an air crash on October 25, 2012. While Suntai’s supporters insist he is hale and hearty and capable of resuming work, his opponents have resisted the governor’s resumption of office, arguing that he is not fit enough to rule over them. This report presents the details.

Comedy merchant, Opa Williams, got married officially to his wife, Patricia, a pastor in Foursquare Gospel Church, Surulere, in 1994. But, before then, they had been living together as husband and wife for four years. Their marriage is blessed with three kids. The couple speaks on their journey into marriage….

An associate professor of sociology, University of Lagos, Dr Nduka Nwabueze, wants the Federal Government to intervene in the chaos in Taraba State, following Governor Danbaba Suntai’s return to the state.

The Nigeria Football Federation will remain focused and concentrate on preparations for the all important 2014 World Cup qualifier against Malawi despite the seeming distractions from its rival, the Football Association of Malawi.

CRISIS rocking the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, spilled over to the special national convention where supporters of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator Andy Uba, his brother and a chieftain of the party, Chief Chris Uba, and those of the party’s candidate in the state’s forthcoming gubernatorial poll, Tony Nwoye, engaged in a free-for-all. Eagle Square, venue of the convention, was literally turned into a boxing arena where the Anambra delegates threw decorum to the dogs and engaged in boxing before other delegates.