FOR as long as I can remember, delusion, self-interest and greed have motivated not only the Nigerian government but the Nigerian people who often respond to the calculating, preying actions of their leaders not with outrage, but with the cunning of those who will profit by supporting what we all know to be wrong.

Veteran journalist, Alhaji Alade Odunewu, popularly known as Allah De, is dead. Alhaji Odunewu, an indigene of Ikorodu in Lagos State, died Thursday at St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, at the age of 85. He will be buried today at Vaults and Gardens Ikoyi, Lagos at 3 p.m.

If detaching your tab from the keyboard which is one of the wave making innovations recently will deprive you of your cherished Qwerty typing experience, there is no need to be sad.

IT is obvious the Nigerian economy is in a precarious situation. It is really nothing new. The only thing that could be new is the momentum of oil theft, which combining with corruption, is drying up resources available to governments.

A 39-year-old father of three, Tartseagh Boshien, has been reportedly kidnapped and killed by a gang allegedly led by his friend (names withheld) in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

The remains of Former Super Eagles midfielder, Thompson Oliha will today be interred at his Upper Sakpomba road residence in Benin City.

AT 13, Hafsat Auwalu was married. At 14, she became pregnant. When it was time for her to be delivered of her baby, Hafsat was taken to the nearby primary healthcare facility where she laboured for hours, but the baby would not come out.

Federal Government may soon adopt the model of the Asian Tigers towards the economic transformation of the nation.

OWERRI—Operatives of anti-graft organisation, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, stormed Owerri on Tuesday and reportedly arrested the immediate past commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Mr. Jerry Okolie.

THE Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will meet today on the ongoing strike embarked upon by university lecturers over the non- implementation of the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement.

Tomorrow in Abidjan, the Super Eagles home-based team will attempt to break the jinx that has prevented Nigeria from qualifying for the last two editions of the African Nations Championship (CHAN), when they confront Cote d’ Ivoire in a second leg final round match at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium.

THE Nigerian National Summit Group has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State to resolve their differences in the overall interest of the country.

After almost two years of intrigues against his recall, former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, has resigned.

BAYELSA State-born David Etete popularly known with the showbiz moniker, P.R.E. which stands for Pretty, Real and Entertaining is a budding songster with a
difference. With one of his videos, Let Me Know enjoying massive airplay, the vivacious songwriter, singer and label owner has also cornered Tuface, Timaya, Dammy Krane and other mesmeric acts for musical collaboration to blow the minds of pundits and cynics alike.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, presented cheques worth N256 million to 128 public secondary schools in the state, as reward for academic excellence.