LAST Sunday’s stunning healing testimony of 43- year old Ifeyinwa Okafor who claimed to have been miraculously delivered from the scourge of breast cancer has re-enacted the debate over whether faith healing which is based on beliefs should be integrated into science-based medicine.

I read on an online blog last week that Nigerians are patient and tolerant people. To be honest I do not understand how the writer came to this conclusion as he did not give evidence of a study or research to support this. However, I took pleasure in the story just as I did a few years ago when a report classified Nigerians as the happiest people on the planet.

Former Super Eagles captain, Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh will step into the shoes of Stephen Okechukwu Keshi as the new Super Eagles coach.

Honourable Kolawole Gabriel Babatunde represents Akoko Southeast and Southwest in the House of Representatives. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview, he says for peace to return to the House, the warring factions should shift ground. He also believes the current Boko Haram onslaught will fizzle out with time as President Muhammadu Buhari puts in place measures to confront it even as he says the president did not promise to perform magic to get rid of the terror group.

When Sunday Vanguard published that some emirs were piling pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint his alleged god-daughter, Hajia Amina Bala Zakari, as replacement for Attahiru Jega, the then outgoing Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, it sounded like a fairy tale.