Obnoxious evil can pass by you unrecognized. A loved relation was brutally dispossessed by death, not once, twice. He lost his sons in succession and mysteriously.

One of Nigeria’s fast-rising gospel music sensations, Solagbade Sola Olaonipekun, has released two new videos: “Anu Oluwa”, a track from her third album and “My year of Harvest”, a track from her new album. This is coming shortly after the release of her fourth album. Both videos were released on August 1. By dropping both videos, the songstress intends to take Lagos State and its environs by storm while fulfilling God’s prophesy.

If someone should walk up to you now and say that she is pregnant for you, will you accept that? Yes, if I have a proof that we have been together and done it because I believe that the best way for a child to be raised is for the both parents to be around. Look at somebody like 2Face he has shown love to all his kids and they are very close. Not only that, he has also maintained a good relationship with the mothers. When such situations arise, the best you can do is to make the most of them by staying true to yourself and be fair to all concerned

“Facebook partnership with us is a commercial and cultural one leveraging our platform which covers film and the whole entertainment sector and the Facebook global platform. This will give an unprecedented opportunity for brands to engage with millions of African movie fans as well as Africa’s film making community leveraging the digital reach of the world’s most pervasive social network,” said the AMAA founder.

A friend just came back from the burial of a 60-year-old man, but that is no news, sadly: Many people are dying these days without getting to a ripe old age. The gist is that the man was never married in his lifetime. Even though it is not a crime, many Nigerians view it as an aberration for a 60-year-old man to be single. It is very difficult to explain or justify. (This, of course, excludes priests and some religious personalities who have taken vows of celibacy).

This week, we begin the serialisation of “Esprit de Corps,” the second story from Ogaga Ifowodo’s work-in-progress entitled The Hostage. We began the series with “The Treasonable Parrot,” his fiction debut featured in the AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction, edited by E. C. Osondu and William Pierce, published in volume 72 of the magazine in 2010. Ifowodo, a lawyer, is an award-winning poet, columnist and activist. At the heart of the work-in-progress is the title story, a novella. The stories are set in Nigeria’s recent history of dictatorship as experienced by characters privately and in unsavoury social encounters caused by the relentless logic of the radical curtailment of freedom. Keep a date with Saturday Vanguard!

The big-budget epic film, Invasion 1897 which has successfully premiered across the world in the past one-year is due to be released on DVD soon,the producer, Lancelot Imasuen has revealed. Lancelot, who is currently in the United States, where the film is on the last leg of its world tour, made the revelation while in a chat with HVP.

The premiere of another Nollywood blockbuster, Code of Silence, took place on Friday, August 8, at Silverbird Galleria, Victoria Island, Lagos amidst much fanfare. The movie which focuses on the subject of rape was well- attended by stars from the showbiz industry. The movie is Emem Isong’s second directorial effort and it features a newcomer, Makida Moka who played the lead character Adanma, Patience Ozokwor, Ini Edo, Omoni Oboli, Amechi Muonagor, Kofi Adjorlolo, Desmond Elliot and Shawn Faqua.

“With a profound sense of duty, I accept the gesture of the organizers of BON awards in appointing me as the artistic director for the 2015 edition of the event. The BON awards is dear to me because it is a homegrown reward platform for Nigerian actors and that was one of the reasons I accepted to join the train that was in Akure, Ondo State recently for the unveiling of the host state,” Arinze said.

FOLLOWING the outcry over the alleged jumbo salaries of members of the National Assembly and the need to reduce the cost of governance, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, inaugurated a 20-man committee to carry out an assessment on what is required to run the National Assembly.