President of the National Christian Graduate Fellowship (NCGF), Dr. Samuel Itina, has challenged Christians to ini-tiate the process that would herald the changes they desire to see in the nation.

While many condemn President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda and ambition to be re-elected in 2015, some Nigerians have imposed on themselves the task of returning Jonathan to Aso Rock. One of such is Afoma Adigwe, the initiator of Goodluck Initiative(Gi) ’07, who has again launched a Gi ’15 campaign ahead of 2015. Adigwe who is also the founder of Uplifting Women Through Farming, UWTF, recently unveiled her plans and spelt out, in an encounter with Feminista, reasons behind her campaign.

When houses are built on the waterway, they tend to replace the natural surfaces that store rainwater with hard, impervious surfaces thereby diverting water and pollution away from the creeks or sewers. As a result, community growth can lead to higher levels of contaminated runoff, impaired water channels, degraded wildlife habitat thus causing uncontrolled sewage overflows

Former Nigeria Football Association vice chairman, Gabriel Chukwuma has advised factional Nigeria Football Federation president, Chris Giwa, to enforce his right to football’s highest office in Nigeria. “As the man running the only private club in the Premier League, Giwa indeed is a true stake-holder.

Ginika Maureen hasn’t really achieved the superstar status in Nollywood, but she is coming along just fine. The Imo State University graduate of philosophy, who isn’t afraid to take on any role provided she doesn’t have to go in her birthday suit, has done a couple of films, which have at least put her on the map.

First runner-up Vanguard’s Sexiest in Nollywood Actor 2013, Benson Okonkwo, is an actor who goes all out to make his movie roles as real as it could get. He once confessed to Potpourri that he was in support of the injection of soft-porn into our movies. According to him, they “make the movies more real”

A number of people could face disciplinary action after FIFA’s ethics investigator Michael Garcia delivered a 350-page report following his year-long investigation into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

The Ogun State Government has concluded arrangements for the commencement of airlifting of the first batch of pilgrims for the 2014 Hajj exercise today, Sunday, 7 September, 2014.

The re-introduction of service charge for withdrawals from other banks Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), now pegged at N65 as against the previous N100, and which took effect on September 1, is unsettling for many Nigerian

Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shama, yesterday, boasted that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) was no match for his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the PDP coasted home to victory in the state’s local government elections by landslide.The PDP was the only strong contender in the race as the APC shunned the election.

Oke said since the insurgents hoisted their illegal flag in Gwoza, the Federal Govern-ment had not taken any swift reaction in dealing with the situation and to make matters worse, the whereabout of about 480 Nigerian soldiers are still unknown.

Last week, I said that that there are no permanent enemies or friends, just permanent interests. I believe that to be true. So I pose a question: what is one’s enemies’ enemy called? A friend? Does that then make one’s friend’s enemy, now an enemy? So, it was a surprise that Iran considered joining forces with the US to fight the insurgents in parts of Iran and Syria The Sunni radical of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is making sworn enemies strange bedfellows.

Delta State youths under the aegis of Youths for Good Governance (Y4GG), are drumming support for Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial aspirant, Dr Andrew Foubiri Warri, for the seat of Delta State Governor in 2015.

A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organization, Niger Delta Project Monitoring Group, has commended Engr. Omatsuli Tuoyo, Director of Projects on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, over his drive to complete all abandoned projects in the area, particularly in Delta State.

FRIDAY, August 29, in Katsina, I spoke with Dimgba Igwe for about two minutes. There was a simple reason for the brevity – Dimgba is usually a man of few words. Shola Oshunkeye, The Sun’s Managing Director in its new undertaking in Ghana, joined us.