Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has stated that “the freezing of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s account by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) is lawful under section 308 of the 1999 constitution and international law particularly the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party.”

Birthdays are meant to be special, memorable and celebrated with as much vigour and splendour as the celebrant could muster, but these days, our screen divas are beginning to add a whole new meaning to it. Now, no actress celebrates her birthday without hitting the photo studio first, to do what is now known as ‘ birthday photo shoot’ which is released to the public via various social media on D-day.

My son’s spirit will haunt his killers – Bereaved mother BY PETER DURU, MAKURDI Benue South  was jolted by the discovery of the decomposing remains of the Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo,  Rev. Fr. John Adeyi, who was kidnapped over two months ago by some  armed men. Adeyi’s skeleton was found behind […]

Twenty days gone now in the month of Ramadan! How much has Ramadan affected you positively and how have you adjusted to the requirements of the month? What have you been doing that you would not want to do again? Would you like to continue doing what you always do in Ramadan? It is indeed a time for stock-taking.

THE National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended it’s on-going nationwide indefinite strike and is poised to resume work tomorrow, M onday, June 27, 2016. In a communique issued at the end of an extraordinary national executive council meeting which was held at the trauma centre of the National Hospital, Abuja , the president, Dr Muhammad Adamu Askira, said the suspension of the strike was to enable the government implement the agreements reached within the agreed time frame.

Was she rescued? Was she simply found? Whatever the case, Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the 219 Chibok school girls, is no longer in the terrorists’ den; she has since been ‘recovered’. But, while she is not with her parents, Nkeki is also not with #BringBackOurGirls, a group of individuals who have been advocating the release of the girls and who should know better. She is also not with her ‘Boko Haram husband,’ from whom she was ‘recovered’. Her whereabouts have remained largely unknown. Her Chibok community are at a loss as to her present location and state of being.

THE murder of 83-year-old Chief Dada Oyateru in cold blood has sent jitters down the spines of notable personalities in Akure, Ondo State capital. Detectives are battling to unravel the mystery behind the murder of the old man weeks after he was allegedly strangled in the presence of his junior wife, Titilola. They are said to be investigating if the murder of the chief was a case of armed robbery or assassination.

Some people may have lost their sense of responsibility and compassion towards the elderly, but the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, certainly has his intact. This, he demonstrated when a team of professionals under the aegis of Care Companion & Quality Medicare visited his Ake palace in Abeokuta last week. Sunday Vanguard was with the visitors. Later in an interview with Sunday Vanguard explained that besides efforts by extended family members, successive governments have failed Nigeria’s old citizens.

It is no longer news that more Nigerians are dying suddenly. Just recently, some prominent Nigerians joined the league of sudden death victims. They include two former national football coaches, Stephen Keshi, who died at 54, and Shuaibu Amodu, who passed on at 58; as well as the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu. Investigation showed unreported cases of a lot more people dying on daily basis.

THIS paper is not to dwell on the purely academic, philosophical, sociological, economic, psychological aspects of the topic but it is an attempt to bring to the fore the fact that Corruption, loss of religious and societal values are symptomatic of a breakdown or putrefaction of spiritual, moral, social and reli-gious values as directed by Jehovah, the Creator and designer of the human mind. It will also point out or proffer solutions based on the present circumstan-ces of this evil world and her systems or measures and finally put it on record that the ‘desire of all nations’, the New Jerusalem, and God’s Kingdom, remain the perfect, ordained, determined, and divinely designed condition or state or place where all these will be confined to the dust bin of history.