Deaconess Eunice MojisolaElisha Olawale was hale andhearty penultimate morning when she woke up to carry out her daily evangelistic assignment. Besides, July is a month that has brought a lot of good things in her life. It was on July 1 she celebrated her 16th marriage anniversary and was waiting for July 24 to mark her 42nd birthday.

Forces loyal to Turkey’s president quashed a coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left at least 161 people dead and 1,440 wounded, yesterday. Authorities arrested thousands as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that those responsible “will pay a heavy price for their treason.”

Let’s start this edition of Joyful homes with a prayer that God should visit us.

David Cameron is not a man who misses his steps often. I am sure also he is not one whose tummy is the abode of butterflies. If he was shy at the start of his premiership in 2010, he definitely out grew it. He is a man of confidence, assurance and in control of his emotions.

Prophet Jones Ode Erue, is the chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State. In this interview with Sunday Vanguard, the APC boss speaks of his party’s determination to take over power from the PDP in the state come 2019, Buhari’s strides in fulfilling his campaign promises and the party’s achievements in the state.

After playing the hide and seek game for several weeks, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami last Wednesday decided to heed the invitation by the Senate for him to shed light on whether he acted in public interest and without abusing his office in a conflict of interest situation while filing forgery charges against the two presiding officers of the Senate, Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and two other bureaucrats.

AFTER two weeks of holiday, the Senate, on Tuesday, resumed but the resumption was not smooth against the backdrop that there were irreconcilable differences among senators.

When ‘friends with benefits’ suddenly popped on the dating scene a few years back, a lot of male and female adventurers eagerly went for it. I mean what could be more enticing? Two consenting adults meet and quickly agree to have no-strings-attached sex until they meet suitable partners they could finally settle with. Trust Hollywood – cashing in on the popularity of the concept, the film: Friends With Benefits lit up the screans all over the world. It was an instant hit because at the end of the madness is a subtle moral that you can’t eat your cake and have it! Someone always gets hurt in the end.

It was in Auchi, sometime around 1986, when in company of a few friends, we visited our mutual friend Clem Agba, who was in town on holiday from Bendel State University Ekpoma where he was a student of Economics. Two things struck me on that particular occasion. The excitement in Clem’s voice when he introduced the young lady we met at his home as Orobosa his heartthrob and the warm reception she accorded us throughout the time we spent with them that day.

Most Nigerians do not know that the foundation of northern domination of the country was surreptitiously laid before independence by the departing colonial administration. The late master storyteller, Prof. Chinua Achebe, refers to Osei Boateng, a journalist for the New African magazine who, in a November 2008 cover story captioned “Nigeria: Squalid End to Empire,” carefully documented how colonial Britain manipulated Nigeria’s independence elections “so that its compliant friends in the North would win power, dominate the country, and serve British interests after independence.”

ONLY few non-members would have believed that the Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina was capable of staging the spontaneous prolonged jubilation and praise-singing which erupted during matins early last month when the Canon Residentiary announced the election of the Provost, The Very Revd Babatunde Colenso Akinpelu Johnson as Bishop.

Sex is cherished because of the pleasure people derive from it. It doesn’t matter whether you are a man or a woman. Sex is designed by nature to be enjoyed, especially when you are married. Besides, it is the only natural way of procreation. Meanwhile, there are hindrances to healthy sexual life that tend to make the lives of the victim miserable. One of such hindrances is erectile dysfunction suffered by men. A victim will normally not have penile erection to have sex. Or, to put it mildly, the victim may suffer what many people refer to as premature ejaculation. In the case of the woman, her own problem may be loss of vaginal sensation that results in what is commonly called frigidity.

A one-time Head of Programmes at the African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya, and one of Nigeria’s leading experts on ecology, Professor James Kolawole Egunjobi, is dead. He died on Monday, July 11, 2016, aged 80.

Beautiful and petite actress, Ify Adibeli, widely known as the Hottest Virgin, is currently riding high in the movie industry. She recently joined the leagues of movie producers, having released two short movies in quick succession this year. One is Flash of Pain while the other is Pregnant Nun.

For ages, crime fighting and control has been seen as the responsibility of government and security agents.