IJAW People Development Initiative, IPDI, and Niger Delta Peace Movement, NDPM, expressed concern, yesterday, that the land dispute between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities in Warri South-West and Udu Local Government Areas of Delta State was worsening into Urhobo/Ijaw crisis.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick yesterday described late Amodu Shuaibu as “the man whose name is synonymous with the Super Eagles,” in acknowledgment of the tactician’s four –time stint with the Nigeria senior team.

President of the Nigeria Football Coaches Association, Bitrus Bewarang has expressed shock at the sudden death of former Chief coach of the Super Eagles Amodu Shuaibu, a few days after the death of Coach Stephen Keshi who, like Amodu, also died in Benin City.

In May 2016, the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) launched a major new partnership to help African countries reduce the burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).

The recent state visit to Nigeria by President Jacob Zuma marked the beginning of a new chapter in relations between Nigeria and South Africa. Both countries have shared a sometimes turbulent history; we have also at different times reveled in the joy of aligned moral purpose – at some point towards the dismantling of apartheid, at some other point in the struggle to enthrone democracy.

If the number of challenges which the 2016 budget has encountered is anything to go by, the document would go down in history as a special budget. To start with, it is the first budget of change by President Buhari’s government. In which case, it ought to depart from the “rub my back and I will concur” posture of the past. Surprisingly, change didn’t quite occur along that line as efforts were made from the beginning to adulterate the budget.

The token gesture of reducing the number of ministries by the President notwithstanding, there is no evidence that the cost of governance has gone down significantly to the extent of impacting positively on the lives of average Nigerians. Information in the public domain about the billions of naira earmarked for the renovation of Aso Rock clinic, feeding in the Presidency, purchase of exotic BMW cars, and maintenance of aircrafts in the presidential fleet indicate that the despicable Animal Farm syndrome characteristic of political leadership in Nigeria is still with us despite the propaganda of change by the APC.

Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria is by no means a great communicator. As a matter of fact he is very drab and uninspiring. This self-effacing, terribly inarticulate man is burdened by the need to clearly put his own achievement in context. One of Jonathan’s greatest problems is that his media team has been unable to put across the achievements of his government, and place his work in its proper context.

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi has commended Nigerians for embracing the Corps’ public sensitisation programme on tyres with enthusiastic acceptance of the campaign.

They say that man is God to man. That God does not come down from His Heavenly stool to help man but uses his fellow man, through the direction of the Holy Spirit to lead man to the path of success in life.