Tomorrow Stephen Keshi will lead out the new Super Eagles he is rebuilding against Burkina Faso in their first game of the 29th Africa Nations Cup in South Africa. However, I am not one of the Nigerians who want the Super Eagles to win the competition but I definitely wish they put up a respectable performance.

In many respects, the bible is a book of prophecies.  God says in the scriptures: “Don’t forget the many times I clearly told you what was going to happen in the future. For I am God- I only- and there is no other like me who can tell you what is going to happen. All I say will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.” (Isaiah 46:9-10)

DESPITE protests from Abia State government and the PDP in the state, the former governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, says he has returned to the party, insisting that nobody could stop him from returning.

Tears rolled down her cheeks as she gazed at the photograph in front of her. She struggled to clean the tears with her wrapper. Ceaseless tears have been the lot of Madam Timipah Okoba’s for the past 10 years when her only child, Tonye Berepubo, was cut down in his prime by gunshots fired during a fracas involving members of an Ijaw youth group which was then factionalised.

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has disclosed that his young team at the 2013 Nations Cup in South Africa will surprise those who have no faith in the Eagles to deliver at the competition.

Apparently embarrassed by what he saw at Nigeria’s Police College, on last Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan could not but lament openly, asking why people were being subjected to a treatment fit for chickens in the poultry.

At the time famous British Jurist, Lord Denning, held that “Something cannot be built on nothing,” little did he know that what male judges all over the world have failed to do within the past centuries could be achieved by a female High Court Judge in Nigeria.

If Bamangar Tukur, elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on March 27, 2012, had expected the high wire politics of the partyy to be anything near the Second Rewpublic politics of old Gongola State, he was gravely mistaken – thirty years ago, he was governor of the defunct Gongola State now Adawawa and Taraba States.

Lagos State government has announced a performance of 89 percent for the 2012 budget, the highest since the inception of the administration in 2007.

Watchers of the unfolding drama in Mali, where reports emerged at the weekend that the leader of Boko Haram Islamic Sect was shot and injured in a combat with members of joint task force, may be having a second thought about their misgivings of Nigeria’s decision to participate in the West African military intervention in the drought and poverty stricken Sahel country.

With case file CR:3000/X/FHQ/ABJ/FSARS/VOL.T1/90, dated August 1, 2012, in respect of the matter of the killing of Olaitan Oyerinde, wherein it was reported that a total of 16 witnesses and 18 suspects were interrogated, including Mrs. Funke Oyerinde, Sunday Vanguard presents you a report whose investigation spanned four weeks of rigorous work. It is about the bungling of an investigation, the reasons of which are yet to be properly explained because of the massive incongruity in the report of the investigation. It will shock you.

Ogochukwu Promise (Phd) is a Fiction writer, playwright, poet and essayist. She is the founder and coordinator of The Lumina Foundation which instituted the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. She also edits and publishes the literary magazine, The Lumina, as well as The Promise Magazine.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State last October marked his two years in office. In this interview, Fayemi reflects on the challenges of the 24 months as the chief helmsman of his state. He also speaks on his endorsement for second term by his party, Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN), based on the mid term report of his administration.

Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, like many other Nigerians, is worried about the challenge of insurgency staring the nation in the state. He is even more worried that one of the institutions under his supervision, the Immigration Service, has a role to play in curbing the insecurity posed by insurgents.
In this interview, the minister speaks on the measures taken by government on insurgency and the other mandates of his ministry, especially on prison and the fire service.

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, escaped death, yesterday, as gunmen, operating on motocycle (Okada), opened fired on his convoy. The incident occurred when the monarch was leaving Masalacin Murtala area of the Kano metropolis where he had gone to attend a Qur’anic graduation ceremony.