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

It has been one back and forth, end to end and dramatic campaign for teams in the nation’s top flight as the chase for the title has seen an exchange and inter-exchange of the top spots by Sunshine Stars and Enyimba in the last one month or so, which in itself, has rekindled the interest of fans in the Nigerian league.

The Provincial leadership of the Claretian Missionaries, Maryland, Nekede, Owerri West local government area of Imo State, has fixed the burial of the slain Rev. Fr. Dennis Osuagwu for August 31, 2015.

As the 2015 convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat opens today at the Jalsa Ground, Oakland Farm, otherwise known as Hadeeqatul Madhi, Hampshire, London, the organisation’s television studio is ready to beam the event live on terrestrial broadcasting to different part of the world, alongside Nigeria’s broadcast station MiTV present here in London with its crew, while Vanguard newspaper and National Mirror also report the event for the print media.

Some few months ago, members of a job-assessing panel in one of the ministries were a bit surprised when Fayo turned up for yet another promotional interview. “How old are you”, a member of the panel challenged.