Mr. Adetiba regaled us with the nostalgia of his primary school days, which I understand to be St John Primary School, Iloro, in Ilesa. He built it up to his secondary education at another mission school, Igbobi College, in Lagos. He told tales of pranks, as if children have since stopped being children. His thoughts are incoherent and his facts are tangled and sexed up. He romanticised with the shoeless schoolboy who received post-colonial education in mission schools in Ilesa and Lagos in the 1960s and early 1970s. He wants things to return to that state.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Nasarawa State, has raised alarm over the gruesome killing of Reverend Joseph Kura, the Overseer of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), in Obi.

Taylor Swift has emerged the No. 1 highest-paid entertainer on Forbes’ new Celebrity 100 list for 2016 with earnings of $170 million over the past year, beating football stars Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and popular musician Adele who came 4th, 8th and 9th on the list respectively. Swift clinches the 2016 top position after international boxer, Floyd Mayweather who raked in a whopping $300 million last year.

YENAGOA—A first time encounter with Daniel Odey Udeh, popularly known as “Man of God” diligently breaking stones and patching up potholes on major streets of Yenagoa metropolis, Bayelsa State, one would mistake him for an employee of the state Ministry of Works or Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA. Ironically, his worn-down appearance makes look like someone, who ekes out a living from handouts from motorists, but in truth, Udeh is a Civil Engineering graduate of the University of Jos, UNIJOS.

THE National Secretary, Phase Three Amnesty Group of ex-agitators, Comrade Tam Odogwu, yesterday, expressed optimism that appointment of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, board members will go a long way to tackle militancy in the region.