Armed men, believed to be soldiers, Friday evening, raided one of the residences of Major Hamza Al Mustapha (rtd), former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, located at Durbin Katsina, Kano metropolis, leaving in its wake sordid tales of rights violation and molestation.

Benue State government is asking the international community to probe the alleged use of chemical weapons to kill over 200 persons in Tiv villages by suspected Fulani mercenaries.

In 2003, Femi-Kevin’s headmaster sent me an email forecasting that he would fail his GCSE exams because he had done so badly in his mock exams. I wrote an angry response and asked him: “Are you God? How are you so sure he would fail? Is it because he is black?” After he took the exams, God did something strange. Before his results came out officially, he showed them to me in a dream; subject-by-subject and grade-by-grade. The results were excellent: Femi-Kevin got so many “A” grades.

The stark truth is that Kokori qualifies and remains a paradox in the manner of Oloibiri in Bayelsa State and several other places where crude oil abounds. Relevant stakeholders, especially governments, should go back to the drawing board to re-shape the lives of the affected people. And our youths should cultivate and apply the culture of non-violence.

The literal abduction of Mr Ebere Wabara, Associate Editor of The Sun Newspapers in Lagos on Friday by policemen from Abia State Command is a crossing of the line from civility to despotism”, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) said, yesterday..

Ebony beauty, Crystal Okoye hasn’t been around in Nollywood for more than two years but she has become an item film-makers court with courtesy and respect. In a space of a year, when most of her peers were still looking to have a shot at a scene in a movie, Crystal, has done close to twenty, with more than 6 of those as the lead character.

Tormenting words common among insane persons show in the character of a black, tall lady who is likely to be in her late twenties. Maria, as she is called, is single with no family; at least nobody claims to be related to her. She lives under a tree situated at a junction on Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja. She speaks Yoruba and Hausa fluently. She has black pixie hair and displays her wares- second hand clothes and shoes. Wherever she bought the wares from to sell is a story for another day.

THE recent death of 19 innocent Nigerians at the Nigerian Immi-gration Service recruitment exercise has continued to attract condemnation with the Methodist Church Nigeria Synod frowning at the unfort-unate and avoidable incidence.

Lola Magret has said she found herself in the Yoruba sector of Nollywood because she didn’t know who could introduce her into the English sector. She has Bolaji Amusa aka ‘Mr Latin’; to thank for her first shot at glory in the make-believe business.

Honestly speaking, I don’t praise sing. But I am proud to say that this is not a vuvuzela government. When you define democracy, how it operates in other climes, democracy is in action in the State of Osun. Ogbeni Aregbesola has the wisdom to govern, he is clairvoyant, he is a fighter; it is like he has an engine in his system to build a society one can be proud of.