Happy New Year. So, here we are in the year 2016. Glory be to God. It is a year that many people have waited for, or even longed for, as if much of the disappointment of the former years would be instantly wiped clean from their memory. It is almost like that at the beginning of each year, which comes in both with the strangeness of an alien, or with “the glory and freshness of a dream”.

Every Wednesday is Shilo service at the Cherubim and Seraphim church in Ebute Metta area of Lagos. Shilo is held at the land of mercy, (ile-aanu), where you have the symbolic flowing river, synonymous with the church rituals. Shilo is where prayers are believed to be answered by God, no matter the nature of the problem.

Benevolent spirits may have cracked his palm kernels but President Jonathan must have nudged them, by being effortlessly self effacing and disarmingly unambitious. The mien and disposition of a lamb amongst wolves alone may leave one with the inconsequentiality, the inconspicuousness, needed to progress untracked by envy but in Nigeria where the humble and hesitant are choked out by the nakedness of ambition and its riotousness , Jonathan was particularly fortunate .

Two days ago, 2015 breathed its last and yielded its place to 2016. Definitely, many people have made or are making New Year resolutions. This is good, especially if the resolutions are SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time defined). They should also flow from your personal mission and vision.

I can’t claim to know the late Torch Taire very well. But he was very close to my Oga, Mr Sam Amuka in many ways including proximity. They lived within a walking distance of each other, and they were, like the cliché, of identical plumage and therefore tended to flock together. My knowledge of him is therefore, largely vicarious since I visit Uncle Sam’s place fairly often. Anybody who knows Uncle Sam knows he is a completely detribalised person. So was Torch Taire.

Barrister Danlami Basharu, CEO of Anglo Nigerian Welfare Association for the Blind (ANWAB). In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he narrated how his ordeal in life brought him fame, and how MTN Foundation partnership with ANWAB has brought scholarship for many blind people.

The Enugu State House of Assembly had at the twilight of its tenure last May,initiated moves to impeach ex-governor Sullivan Chime over alleged misappropriation of the 2012 supplementary budget and gross official misconduct. Although the impeachment was dead on arrival because the move was coming barely two weeks to end of the administration,Chime flew a kite, purporting to have, with the aid of the factionalized members of the House, impeached Eugene Odoh,as Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly.

By Oghene Omonisa T he year 2015 is special in the history of Nigeria. So many important events occurred that are worthy to be remembered and recorded, and which will enhance an objective appreciation of future events in Nigeria. Some were political, others economic, sociological, or cultural. The elections With the then sitting President, Dr. Goodluck […]

“Opportunities no longer existed for the majority of the people, and especially young graduates to find meaningful employment in the job market, general hardship, brutal repression of civil and human rights coupled with system that shuns inward investment contributed to the thinking behind the formation of IPOB.”

THESE may not be the best of times for Shehu Sani, the civil rights activist-turned politician who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). After several years of robust human rights activism using his Kaduna-based Civil Rights Congress, Sani contested the 2015 general elections, defeating his closest rival, Senator Mukhtar Aruwa, of the People’s Democratic Party.

Ominous are the signals from a group of stakeholders in Nigerian football to usher in the new year. After the disorder that trailed the elections into the executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation in 2014 and the resolution of the disputes through the courts and arbitration, the group led by Mr. Chris Giwa, proprietor of Giwa FC of Jos, has been issuing drumbeats of war with threat as conveyed in their several statements to crash in and seize the secretariat of the NFF, ostensibly to recover an nonexistent or, at best, moribund mandate.

With the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting last week in its Vienna headquarters, members emerged with decision put in escrow for cartel leaders to tidy up agreements on production caps. It means every member (rich or poor) is producing as they can pump into the market to sustain their teetering economies. Most OPEC members seem roiled with incongruous market share control mechanisms espoused, with the rift between high cost producers whose economies are being devastated by low crude oil prices and prosperous producers that stand for market share.

My guy gets into trouble a lot and has been in trouble a couple of times with the police but only arrested once and received a reprimand. I started speaking to him in November last year after my ex and I split up after a particularly rough break-up and things progressed from there. He asked me out a few times but I said that I couldn’t. I wanted to but I knew I wasn’t ready to trust anyone again after just coming out of a relationship.

The Umu Ojobo Nwonu family in Imufu Enugu- Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, began their new year with the mourning of the death of wife and six children of Dominic Onu Ojobo in a fire disaster last Wednesday.

“On the following day, my eldest son called to tell me that there were corpses everywhere and he was among the few surviving souls in the place. I encouraged him to keep praying and as we were talking, he informed me that they were approaching him with guns and that he isn’t sure his father will get to speak with him again . Shortly after, the line went off. He was also killed.