I see a future for Africa, led by Nigeria, using the resources of the people to build a future that includes the people.

It is not a vision or an idea. It has gone beyond that. It is a journey, one that started a while ago when the Pension Reform Act was signed into Law.

Teenage striker Kelechi Iheanacho gave Manchester City fans an exciting glimpse into the future by scoring his first hat-trick as Manuel Pellegrini’s men cruised into the FA Cup fifth round and kept their hopes alive of an unprecedented Quadruple.

Senator Andy Emmanuel Uba, representing Anambra South Senatorial District, has urged members of the public, particularly the people of Anambra State, to disregard the insinuation that the verdict of the Supreme Court in the case of Ejike Oguebego and other versus People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and other, affected his seat in the National Assembly.

The inauguration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello as Kogi State governor without a deputy continues to raise dust.

Can you ever really trust a man who is so duplicitous he will spend years sleeping with one of your friends right under your nose? Tessy, married for close to 30 years was flicking through a pile of photographs she came across in her drawer when she looked closely at a particular one. It was of her, her husband Tunde, and Joko, a family friend who’d been in their circle of friends for decades. According to her, the photograph depicted a happily married couple enjoying a birthday party with friends. “But my husband has his arm placed protectively around the back of Joke’s chair with his hand inches from her cleavage as she beams into the camera. I am the wife whose head can just be seen poking out behind my husband, as if I’d crashed the photograph!” she said

CHURCH growth consultant, Dr. Francis Bola Akin-John in an interview with SAM EYOBOKA, spoke on how to stem the tide of failing local churches in line with a new campaign his organisation, International Church Growth Ministries, an interdenominational ministry founded to equip ministers and local churches, has just launched. Excerpts:

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike must have been greatly relieved when the Supreme Court last Wednesday confirmed him as the rightful winner of the 2015 governorship election in his state. The Apex Court upheld the elections of Wike with a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel whose lead judgment was read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. Not-withstanding that the details of the judgment will not be available until February 12, 2016, it is only fair at this point for Wike’s critics including this column to congratulate him for emerging victorious in the laborious venture called election in Nigeria.

The Nigerian National Assembly has done great disservice to Nigerians in the nineteen years since the restoration of the Republic. It has accomplished little, and it has more or less aided and abetted executive brigandage, and reduced public governance to a criminal enterprise. Nigerians themselves are in part to blame.

Oyenike Laoye-Oturu, professionally known as Nikki Laoye, has announced her plans for 2016 and what should be expected of her. The recording artiste, singer, songwriter, on-air-personality and dancer, renowned for her eclectic musical expressions and captivating stage performances, recently disclosed that she has got a lot up her sleeves for 2016 and plans to wow her fans beyond expectation.

Oladunni Ogunnubi, a final year student of Transport Management Technology of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, has been selected by Boeing Company International, manufacturers of the Boeing range of aircrafts, to participate in its 2016 internship programme in the United States of America.

While Nigeria is still reeling from the early ouster from the CAF Africa Nations Championship, Egypt have put their squad in frame for the crucial Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in March.

In different countries throughout the world, people are so preoccupied with the quest for primitive accumulation and acquisitiveness that they tend to forget those behavioural responses and social etiquette which make life so humane and fascinating.

Russian club CSKA Moscow have rejected an improved offer from Premier League leaders Leicester City for Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa, BBC Sport understands.

Up and rising Yoruba actress, Feyi Hassan has just wrapped up production of a new film, writen and produced by her. The film ‘Aisan’, meaning ‘Sickness’ features a host of prominent Yoruba actors, such as Jide Kosoko, Sunkanmi Omobolanle, Allwell Ademola, Kunle Afod, Feyi herelf and many others.

DR David Onuoha-Bourdex, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, candidate for Abia North senatorial election, in this interview, recounts how the choice of the electorate was truncated in the March 28, 2015 election and how their choice will prevail in the re-run ordered by the Court of Appeal.