Following the alleged invasion of their stores by about 30 officials of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A, Ikeja, accompanied by soldiers, market women, who deal in parboiled rice at Mile 2 Oke/Under-bridge Market, in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, staged a peaceful protest to the head office of Vanguard Media Limited, yesterday.

Fortune often favours the enterprising; the trip to Abuja to obtain a copy of the Taraba State Tribunal judgment yielded an extra dividend. A chance meeting with Sylvanus Giwa, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku, DDI, resulted in this interview. Giwa is a professional broadcaster. He started his career with CHANNELS TV before moving to Taraba to serve as GM, Taraba TV, Jalingo and SSA to three governors.

Apostle Johnson Suleman, founder of the Auchi, Edo State based Omega Fire and Miracles Ministries, is a motivational and faith-building teacher. Suleman, in this interview, shares his ‘prophecies from God to nations and individuals’ while demonstrating, that, by faith and actions of leadership, there is great hope that people will be impressed with how God affects lives and then turn to God in reality.

THE National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, believes ‘something is so wrong’ with Christianity in Nigeria, saying followers of the faith must get it right like Islam.

Jebba – Mokwa – Minna Road links the South of Nigeria with the North.“The alternative route is the Okene – Lokoja Road bursting out at the federal capital and then to other parts of the North.

The battle for survival in the Glo-sponsored Dance with Peter reality T.V show grew even more intense on Saturday night as housemates challenged one another in a face-to-face, win-or-go-home contest on Saturday. Nollywood star and Glo ambassador, Funke Akindele, was guest judge.

He may have taken more than three months but President Muhammadu Buhari would need to deal with the growing discontent coming from the South-East. His direct silence or, better put, seeming indifference, or both, has, one way or the other, contributed, in no small measure, to the spark that has happened on members and leaders of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB – and the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, riddled by in-fighting, is playing catch up with relevance.

Acting Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, told Sunday Vanguard, in a telephone interview, that government and security agencies had to come in especially when the protesters began to carry dangerous weapons and taking the law into their hands. Disclosing that the police, as the lead agency in internal security issues, were doing very well tackling the challenges brought about by the protests in the South-East, the DDI said the military could only be called in if the situation got out of hand.

After launching himself into the mainstream music world about some years ago, Chinagoro, a.k.a African China, stands out as a dependable and social crusader of great reckoning, as his name has become a house-hold name in many homes across Africa.

IF results from most of the 91 polling units where supplementary governorship poll was held in Kogi State, yesterday, are anything to go by, the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, is as good as having won the election.

Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki, at the weekend, in Paris, urged his counterparts from across the world to lead the move to save the environment.

There was tension in Jos, the capital of Plateau State, Wednesday when it was learnt that a lion escaped from Jos Wildlife Park at feeding time, before it was killed. Many felt it was wrong to have killed the lion instead of tranquilising it. On inquiry from tourism officials of the Plateau Tourism Corporation on why the lion, which had been caged since 1972, was shot, they said the zoo lacked the equipment to tranquilise it.

A former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, narrowly escaped an attempt on his life along Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, yesterday.

Out of Luck, written by Chinaza Onuzo, is directed by Niyi Akinmulayan. The drama revolves around a young lottery operator, Tope Tedela, and his girl friend, Linda Ejiofor.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) insists workers across the country will embark on strike if state governors make good their threat to stop the payment of N18,000 minimum wage.