Have you ever had a prayer-meeting where, instead of praying, you groaned? Paul counsels that we should: “pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers.” (Ephesians 6:18). Groaning is a kind of prayer. When we are pained and we groan, it is transmitted as a wordless prayer to God. David understood this. He said: “Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.” (Psalm 38:9).

The award, which came on the heels of the 70th celebration for Shobanjo is given to Chief Executive Officers (CEO), company owners and top managers who have given significant inputs to the successes of their companies by advancing the best management practices and services for employees and customers.

One of the headline news of the week which ended yesterday was the story that the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari had directed his aides to ban the Africa Independent Television (AIT) from covering his activities. From my personal knowledge of Buhari, I ourightly disbelieved the story.

THE Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II, has expressed the hope that the incoming government in Nigeria would offer better leadership for the people following the just concluded general elections.

It was a triple celebration at Calvary Kingdom Church, Lagos last weekend, when the founder and former PFN National Secretary-General, Archbishop Joseph Ojo and his wife, Esther celebrated their 66th and 59th birthdays with a public presentation of his biography, Once Upon a Joseph authored by Lawrence Akapa.

Deputy Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos and convener of the just concluded Women of Destiny Conference, Pastor (Mrs) Nike Adeyemi has charged Nigerian women to speak out against the ills of the nation starting from their families.

The appeal by Mrs Ogakwu to the Police must occur to most observers of the nearly concluded elections as strange indeed. Every election before now had always been preceded by announcements about restriction of movements on election day by the Nigeria Police. Stern warnings are given to violators that they will be dealt with if they failed to comply. Yet, in every election, some individuals, with the obvious complicity of the police violate the restrictions to cause havoc.

When the Olusegun Obasanjo-led government announced in 2004 of a revamp of the pension system in Nigeria, millions of pensioners across the country heaved a sigh of relief. They danced, clapped and sang praises of the then president for his thoughts towards their plights.

Certainly the much anticipated 2015 general elections may have come and gone but the issues that played out before the exercise will surely linger for a very long time. There were a lot of predictions and permutations that heralded the polls. There was the much scary talk of the country disintegrating in 2015 and with the elections at hand, the tension was so high that not only the feeble minded decided to relocate to their ancestral homes before the elections.

In a time when every artiste wants to blend in and do the predictable ‘club banger’ kind of music,Ben Efe has chosen a different path, which is very much like soul of old and he captures the whole essence in his debut album Bad note to melody.