Nigerian performer and recording artiste, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, cancelled his performance at a concert scheduled to hold at the 35,000-capacity Stade Municipal de Lubumbashi in Congo after a fight ensued between fans and police.

Nigeria is descending to a new low in barbarism, which if left unchecked will define the new era of politics. Parents, presumed to be sane, but obviously callous and distressed, now sell their kids to procure food for the rest of the family. Whether the evil is perpetrated with a heavy heart is difficult to say until we conduct a study into the motivations of the few known examples to date. And, the sooner the better, because this trend might gain momentum and become irreversible for a long time to come.

Those who think that software products developed in Nigerian cannot be retooled for global competitiveness market should better have a rethink.

Nollywood producer and founder of Abuja International Film Festival, Fidelis Duker, is enjoying the benefit of early marriage. He kept his vow when he impregnated his
wife,Temitope, at a very young age, and went ahead to marry her despite the odds. Today, the couple are better off for it, as their children are all grown up. Their first daughter will be 20 in another two years when they will be marking their twentieth wedding anniversary. In this encounter, Fidelis recounts some of the challenges he faced with his wife four years into marriage and how they were able to overcome the dark moments. On her part, Temitope says “marrying early was a blessing in disguise.”

Jesus says if a man witnesses about himself, his witness should not be believed: “He who speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.” (John 7:18).

There is a saying that when two brothers come out from a meeting, frowning, they must have told each other the bitter truth. This was exactly what happened recently at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, venue of the one-day stakeholders’ forum on the Nigerian automotive industry.

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani, says no project embarked upon by the ministry under his predecessors was completed, explaining that the worrisome development forced him to raise a technical committee to audit the billion Naira projects awarded by the ministry so far.

BORN in Kaduna on August 25, 1946, Archbishop (Professor) Adebayo Dada Akinde spent his formative years there even though his parents were of Egba (father) and Sierra Leonean (mother) extractions. Akinde, an electronics engineer and computer scientist, earned a B.Sc. degree in electronics from the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University).

The Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Lagos State, Oba Adewale Shotobi, and the Ranodu of Imota, Oba Ajibade Agoro, on Monday, led other traditional rulers in Ikorodu Division on a sympathy visit to Primero Transport Services, operators of the damaged Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, buses, vandalized by miscreants, at its headquarters, in Ikorodu, following the mayhem that was triggered by the killing of a traffic hawker by a fast moving truck while trying to escape from law enforcement agents. Apparently irked by nefarious activities perpetrated around Ikorodu, Agoro expressed concerns and spoke with Sunday Vanguard on the invasion of Lagos, Ogun border communities around Ikorodu by suspected militants.

Charles Idahosa is one of the founding members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and currently the Political Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole. In this interview, he criticises a former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, over what he describes as derogatory comments he used against Oshiomhole. He responds to allegations made against the APC-led government in the state during the recent Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rally, asserting that the party is confused as to who between Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and Hon. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen will be facing Godwin Obaseki of the APC in the forthcoming governorship poll in the state.