Lagos – Dr. Ayoola Oba Otudeko, Executive Chairman of Honeywell Group, has been voted Leadership business person of the Year 2015 by the Board of Leadership Newspapers, “For his relentless appetite for risk, his zeal to impact lives by creating jobs and transforming the business landscape with legacy projects and his philanthropy”.

Most of us have experienced the discomfort of indigestion. Usually due to poor eating habits, it occurs when the stomach produces too much acid, causing a burning sensation and pain. When the acid is in the stomach, it is called gastritis. But, if it leaks into the Oesophagus (the tube leading to the stomach), it is called oesophagitis or heart burn. At some time, we’ve all paid the price for spicy food, here are some tips by nutritionists for soothing away indigestion:

WHAT is your conception of love? It’s a question that has inspired everyone from Shakespeare to Sinatra and now scientists believe they have found the answer—and it is not in your head, it is in your heart! According to their research, Dr. Andreas Barlets and Professor Semir Zaki say new insights that could solve some of the mysteries surrounding love has been revealed

You must have heard of a very knowledgeable people who woke up one day and, in their great wisdom, declared that Nigerians were the happiest people in the world. Of course, it was not added that they were of Nigerian stock. They must have come to that fabulous estimation during a festive period like Christmas when almost everybody has something to dance about, and Nigerians will dance at the drop of a pin.

It is another festive season and I am feeling particularly happy and looking forward to Christmas. All my children were home from school eight days ago. I missed them and they apparently missed home. My eldest daughter and eldest son seem to have matured much more over the last three months, they are providing better leadership. But my 11-year-old son came home somewhat withdrawn.

I received many responses to my column of three weeks ago which had questioned our penchant to compromise on what should be the intrinsic value of our institutions and how many of our appointments do not add value; rather, they reduce value. Although the conferment of SAN was made to illustrate the point, many of the comments were on it. The one published today is long but represents in my view, the comments of many respondents.

When late Houphet Boigny made the state treasury his own , his madness allowed him transform his village of Yamoussoukro into a tourist attraction. He saw St Peters Basillica in Rome and greed couldn’t stand in his way as ego propelled him to replicate it in his home town in Cote d’ivoire. That project may be dumb but our politicians make Boigny a visionary.

The Executive Secretary, Kogi State Universal Basic Educa-tion, SUBEB, Mallam Nuhu Ahmed has said that the change mantra of the Federal Government will amount to nullity if the quality of teachers in the educational sector is not enhanced. Ahmed stated this yesterday in Lokoja at a five-days training for quality assurance officers organised by the Universal Basic Educa-tion Commission, UBEC and the state SUBEB with the theme: “Strength-ening the Capacity of Quality Assurance officers for Improved Quality Delivery”.

It is not about then and now. It is the Nigerian factor. It pains me to see people who do not have these special qualities running around hospitals. Nurses should never look at the monetary gains when it is not so. I wish to appeal to Nigerian nurses to be kind to patients because we, as human beings, are all patients. Kindness to patients contributes to the healing process. A nurse must try to put up a smile even when he or she is tired and unhappy.

I didn’t know him before but he assured me that he would talk to a driver or conductor to help me get to Badagry. We were still at the bus stop when I was arrested alongside the man I had asked for help. It was when I got to the station that I realised that someone had been killed. I have never seen the deceased. I don’t even know whether he is fair or dark.”

Erstwhile military governor of the Midwest Region and later governor of the equally defunct Bendel State, Brigadier-General Samuel Ogbemudia, was at the onset of the civil war, one of the highest ranking officers from the Midwest Region. Once the Biafran Army overran the Midwest Region, Ogbemudia was dispatched to Kaduna with a DC 3 plane to procure arms from Kaduna by Major-Gen. David Ejoor who held command of the Federal Forces in Benin.

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC had penultimate Sunday cancelled the rescheduled poll in the volatile council area declaring that it was substantially marred by violence, ballot box snatching and kidnapping of electoral officers. The council has 120,827 voters, second only in terms of electoral strength to Yenagoa which has over 130,000 registered voters.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin city, Edo State, has sacked the member representing Aniocha North constituency at the Delta State House of Assembly, Mr.

THE Anambra State leadership of the Inter-party Advisory Council, IPAD, has called on Governor Willie Obiano to begin the process for the conduct of local government election in the state. The tenure of the elected local government officials would expire in January next year.

MUSLIM Youths, under the aegis of the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria (ADYAN) has warned those positioned themselves to frustrate the present administration to desist from such action and allow Nigerians reap the dividends of democracy.