Words of wisdom, as you will soon discover. If I wake up on the morning of May 8, this year, I will beam a benevolent smile on anybody saying to me “go and die”. What else is there to do? On that day, I would have broken a family jinx or curse as a result of which no male child in the Sobowale family, in two hundred years, had made it to 60. On that day I will be 70.

Nigeria Wrestling Federation president, Daniel Igali has been depressed by the sudden passing away of a young and up coming wrestler, Pradus Boatman who died last week and was interred yesterday in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State.

THE recent signing into law of anti-gay law by Ugandan Head of State, Yoweri Museveni, has generated a lot of interest. The World Bank was reported to have postponed the disburse-ment of some funds to that country. Similar pressure accompanied Nigeria’s signing of a similar bill a few weeks earlier. I

Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Maccido is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation. He represents Sokoto North Senatorial District on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party. In this interview, he describes the All Progressives Congress as an opposition that the Peoples Democratic Party has to overcome in the North. He also speaks on why he may contest election on the platform of APC and other national issues.

Everyone knows him as a prophet of God but only a few hear of his generosity towards widows and other less-privileged.

Governor Aliyu Wamakko, according to many Sokoto State people, has transformed the state to Makkah of a sort. Were those people talking out of sentiments? The former Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Mallam Nasir Danladi Bako, who is currently the state Commissioner for Information, said, “By the time I take you round, what you see will be the answer to what you seek to know on the part of the government.”

A satellite image released by China, yesterday, offered the latest sign that wreckage from a Malaysia Airlines plane lost for more than two weeks could be in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean where planes and ships have been searching for three days.

The traditional ruler of Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Igwe Chidubem Iweka, has confirmed the death of five persons in the area, while 15 others were critically injured in renewed violent clash between two suspected cult groups.

Tragedy struck in Dopemu area of Lagos when two friends, identified as an official of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and a Customs officer, allegedly engaged a panel beater in a scuffle that led to his death

A mobile policeman attached to a bank in Minna, Niger State allegedly shot himself to death with his service rifle. The reason for the suicide remained unknown.

Christian leaders have been admonished to reject government appointments to protest the state of the nation

Two police officers attached to the Criminal Investigation Department of Kwara State Command, Ilorin have been sentenced to three and two years imprisonment respectively without option of fine for violating the provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has largely been commended by a cross section of Nigerians for the government’s firm stand against homosexuality. Though political leaders and civil society groups in Europe and America have been up in arms since the bill was signed into law, many Nigerians know better: a number of these world leaders are only supporting same-sex unions for the sake of “political correctness”, so as to win elections.

Vanguard’s General Manager and Editor-in-Chief, Mr Gbenga Adefaye, in his remarks said “No society can be so good as to be beyond improvement or so bad that the collective efforts of its people cannot redeem it.