The bold inscription in front of the clean, freshly-coated mahogany door leading to his office at Zone11, Onikan, Lagos, is just like a portraiture of the personae called, Mbu Joseph Mbu. It reads unequivocally; ‘This is AIG’s office. Not CP Command and not DPO. Only Special complaints come here. We are not debt collectors or land speculators, please.’

Emotions will certainly run wild this weekend as Coach Mohammed Babaganaru comes face to face with his former team, Nasarawa United, who this weekend, play Kano Pillars at the Sani Aacha Stadium in Kano.

God is a faithful God and too faithful to fail you. He is dependable. You can put your whole trust in Him and He will never fail you. He has never failed anyone that puts his trust in Him. He will not start failing from you. Do you know that even if God tries to lie, He cannot lie because He is Truth? Whatever He says comes to pass.

The NNPC has another Group Managing Director in the name of Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu who until his appointment, was the Vice-Chairman of Exxon-Mobil for Africa. He is about the fourth GMD for NNPC in half a dozen years. So volatile is this job, so open to abuse, political interference and pressure, that you wonder whether to congratulate the present occupant or commiserate with him. Yet, so important, nay, so vital is his job that it is in our collective interest to wish him the best.

I rise with a deep sense of immense gratitude and humility to express the appreciation of my fellow Awardees and I, for the honour to be considered worthy recipients of this prestigious National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) Award. At a personal level, I consider national productivity to be a huge challenge, and I regret that, as a nation and at all levels of the national economy, be it the public service or industry, we are not anywhere near the destination in the pursuit of a paradigm shift in Nigeria’s productivity profile, if at all we have started.

Recently, I came across a number of write-ups from Europe and America questioning the relevance of the marriage institution. This thinking is mainly borne out of the increasing rate of divorce, and people now living together without being married and having children outside wedlock. In their thinking, if the primary purposes of marriage are companionship and procreation, why go into it when you can cohabit and procreate without being married?

The Anambra State Association of Town Unions, ASATU, the umbrella body comprising the Presidents’ General of the 177 communities in the state, literarily resurrected eight prominent citizens of the state who had passed on, by giving them posthumous awards in recognition of their services to the state while they were alive.

Dr. Ifeoma Monye (FRCGP, MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG, DFFP) is chief consultant, family physician at the National Hospital, Abuja. She pioneered the establishment of that department in 2003 which now ranks as a premier at the hospital.

The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu has upheld the election of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State in the April 11, 2015 governorship election. It struck out the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Okey Ezea on the grounds that it was frivolous, lacked merit and against court processes.

The 62 year-old Asuquo has indeed been thrown into anguish, sorrow and pains that will obviously linger in his memory as long as he lives, following the alleged killing of his 20 years son, Emmanuel, by his landlord and members of his family