THIRTY-NINE year old Friday Emufou Ororumen, father of two, had an accident a couple of years ago resulting in the amputation of one of his legs and today he walks with the aid of an artificial limb. He has been feeding his family with whatever he earns from a barbing salon in the NPA area of Warri in Delta State.

The Outpatient Department, as a matter of fact, that is where the pilot project on Servicom was perfected and now FMC Keffi is a model for tertiary health institutions in the country. That is a department I was heading and I was the Chairman of the pilot project; we had some funds resulting from goodwill, we were able to renovate that department, built offices, seminal room, and improved on the waiting area.

PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State has stressed the importance of peaceful co-existence among members of the party ahead of 2015 general elections. Chairman of the party in Delta State, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, who spoke on new year day at the peace party for PDP members in Ika South Local Government Area of the state at Agbor, said the people should be committed to the peace agenda of the state government, which has helped in the transformation of the state.

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in 2007 general elections and currently Special Project Director in the office of Delta State Governor, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, says Professor Ango Abdullahi and his northern associates threat of war should President Goodluck Jonathan contest in 2015 will not stop the president from contesting.

Hon.Tim K. Owhefere is a two- term member of Delta State House of Assembly where he chairs the House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. The journalist- turned- politician
is also a Knight of the Anglican Communion. He speaks, in this interview, on some national issues.

Alhaji Sagir Muhammad, Wazirin Ringim, was an intelligence officer in the Nigerian Army. He was also a commissioner in Kano and Jigawa states as well as Chairman, Arewa Peoples Congress. He spoke with AbdulSalam Muhammad in his country home, Ringim, on some national issues.

The popular saying that man proposes but God disposes cannot be truer when the heart rendering story of Mr. Etukpere Lucky Emumejakpor, the 36- year-old graduate of School of Health Technology, Ofuoma, who lost his two sons in a night fire at Oroke Estate, Ovwian in Udud Council Area of Delta State, in a mysterious way comes to mind.

EMINENT sons and daughters of Itsekiri nation under the auspices of Iwere Kingdom last Sunday gathered at the Olu Palace for an annual thanksgiving service.
The 26th annual Iwere thanksgiving service which took place at the Erejuwa Church Hall inside the Olu Palace has His Royal Majesty Ogiame Atuwase II, the Olu of Warri and the current president of the Fellowship of Christian Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, FECTRON, in attendance with his family.

LG Mobile, has deliberately targeted the Yuletide period to bring its G series smart gadgets, including the G Pro, G Pro-Lite, G2 as well as the G Pad to Nigeria.

President of Believers’ LoveWorld Incorporated also known as “Christ Embassy”, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has called on governments to focus on education.
Speaking during the crossover service in Christ Embassy Church, Oregun, Ikeja area of Lagos, Oyakhilome pointed out that the need to equip and empower youths is to make them ready for the future.

THE presiding bishop of TREM, Dr. Mike Okonkwo has called on every Nigerian not to lose hope, but rather to continue to pray for the country especially now when there is so much hopelessness around the world.
He explained that the call for prayers of hope became necessary as it is the primary condition that God will use in answering our collective prayers for the nation and that there were performance indicators that in the new year things will improve with tangible developments.

Nigeria will be good for faithful believers this year, according to Pastor Damilare Akinola, Senior Pastor of Appealing Grace Assembly International (APGA), Lagos.
In his new year message entitled, 2014: Year of Karis Jubilee, Akinola said: “The Church will arise in relevance and influence if they will pursue righteousness and truth.”

THE District Superintendent, West and Central Africa, Apostolic Faith Church, Rev. ‘Bayo Adeniran has urged Nigerians to live in peace, love one another and turn to God, stressing that the country will surmount its current challenges as long as Nigerians embrace righteous-ness, reports OLAYINKA LATONA.

The people of Ankpa/ Omala/Olamaboro Federal Constituency, Kogi State have passed a vote of no confidence on the member representing their constituency at the House of Representatives, Muhammed Idris, describing his election as a “wasted mandate”.

One person was wounded Saturday when an improvised bomb exploded in the Kenyan capital, police said, in a shop in Nairobi’s mainly ethnic Somali district Eastleigh.