House of Representatives is headed for a constitutional crisis upon the imminent stepping down of its presiding officer, Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, one sitting day before the House attains the minimum sitting requirements in a year.

Like I said before, I never liked anything that would bring me into the public glare. I’m just the classroom type, but I’m blessed with a good height so sometimes I just find myself wanting to model even though I didn’t want to do it full time. After I contested for the pageant, I realised I had the potentials.

Broadcasting had always been my childhood dream and I worked towards it. Right from my school days, I always loved the radio because the television was not popular then. The Radio vision box was in vogue. While growing up, I remembered a few radio broadcasters whom were exceptional with their radio shows and I never missed their time slot. I developed passion for broadcasting and it stayed with me all through my secondary school days.

Ex-beauty queen and rising actress, Peggy Enoho Ovire, was all eyes last weekend when she stormed the Filmhouse Cinema, Apapa Mall, Lagos, venue of the premiere of 50 Naira Story Initiative’s four movies, wearing long-cocktail dress with no bra, revealing her tantalizing nipples.

Several years after the likes of Chico Ejiro, Fidelis Duker, Charles Novia and Fred Amata premiered four movies, “Caught In The Middle”, “100 Days In The Jungle’, “Senseless” and “Letter To A Stranger’, on the same day under the aegis of their outfit, “Project Nollywood”, the same record has been set again. But this time by “50 Naira Story Initiative” owned by Yinka Oduniyi.

According to the Nigerian Optometric Association, 20 million Nigerians are blind. It is easy to see this number as a statistic, or worse, to make it synonymous with the visually impaired beggars on the street without a hope for tomorrow. But the voices of students from the studios of Vocational Training Centre run by Nigerian Society for the Blind echoes hope from their base in Oshodi, Lagos to the ends of the earth.

Leggy actress, Yvonne Nelson and hip hop artiste, Sarkodie are leading an army of Ghanaian celebrities on a controversial procession this evening under the aegis of ‘#DumsorMustStop vigil’ to protest power outage in that country. The celebrity vigil, which holds at Tettey Quashie Interchange, according to the organizers, will have who-is-who in the country’s entertainment industry as participants.

“The last day to enter your submissions is July 20, 2015. Five finalists will be announced at the end of every month. At the end of the contest, 20 finalists will be compiled; these finalists will have their work uploaded to the website for a voting process to start,” said Obiagwu.

US-based Nigerian actress cum producer, Bridget John recently took a swipe at the Nigerian movie industry, declaring that most of our stars are ‘monotonous’ in their acting skills. Bridget who was in the country last December for a private screening of her award winning film, “Adora”, also frowned at the quality of Nollywood films, blaming the shortcoming on the practitioners whom she said, rarely appreciate the importance of regular training as film makers.

AS he prepares to leave office next month as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, after conducting the 2015 general elections, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has expressed worry that the achievements recorded so far by the commission may not be consolidated by his successor.

THE Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has kicked against the cutback of the Petroleum Host Community Fund, PHCF, from 10 per cent to 7.5 per cent and the expansion of the meaning of oil communities in the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the House of Representatives.

Rivers State Governor-Elect, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has assured the British government of the collaboration of the Rivers state government to ensure the immediate return of investors to the State.

STALWART of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Delta State, Comrade David Ohwobeya has described the decision of the governorship candidate of Labour Party, Chief Great Ogboru and his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress, APC in the State, Olorogun O’Tega Emerhor to challenge the victory of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa in the April 11 gubernatorial polls in the Election Petition Tribunal as an exercise in futility.

THE Olaraja (Head) of Ijala Community, Warri, Delta State, Pa (Prince) A.B. Ikenren, yesterday, said he did not consent to the publication, entitled ‘Community demands compensation for victims of 2014 demolition’, contained in Vanguard, 13th May, 2015.

I cannot but agree with Pastor E.H.L. Olusheye, President, Christ Apostolic church in one of his submissions on corruption in Nigeria. According to him, widespread corruption in Nigeria is traceable to the increasing wave of covetousness, greed, inordinate ambition, materialism and the get-rich-quick-syndrome of the post-independence era. He went on to emphasise the Biblical saying that the love of money is the root of all evil and added that the nationwide poverty, inadequate social security and the corrupt and extravagant political system being operated in the country are factors contributing to corrupt practices in Nigeria, among other social ills.