Well, what I can say as the National Coordinator of the CNDE, is that we are both surprised and not too surprised over the recent spike in oil facility attacks. We are not surprised because there are certain things that the government needed to provide in the Niger Delta but it has not done so up till this moment. These are the issues that gave birth to the Presidential Amnesty Programme. We are surprised that instead of addressing those germane issues the government merely tried to appease some people and allow the issues to fester.

Too many people are today being deceived that their future is hopeless and that nothing good can come out of it. They have been lied to by satan that change is not possible. Some believe this lie or their present situation because probably they have tried certain things for years and yet no positive change has occurred. Thus, they have concluded that their lives can never be better. God has sent me to you today to let you know that His thoughts concerning you is of peace and not of evil and to give you an expected glorious end, a future and a hope (Jer. 29:11). God did not create you with a destiny that is useless. God is a glorious God. Everything He does is wonderful. This is why I know that your life is planned with great wonders waiting to happen. Don’t believe the lie that your present status is your destiny. It is not true. It can be changed. You can change it.

An anonymous quote has it that self-praise is no recommendation. Once upon a time there was a character out of fable; the widely known and recognized lizard which made a spectacle of itself at the village square when by accident it came down from the heights of an iroko tree. It noticed that nobody applauded it falling from an imagined height of the 200-metre Eiffel Towers in central Paris. It nodded its head three times in self-congratulation.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, faction led by Comrade Joe Ajaero, yesterday picketed the premises of the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, at the Central Business District of Alausa, Ikeja over perceived anti-workers activities, disrupting its 59th Annual General Meeting, AGM.

THE Book of Proverbs 22:29 states that: “Show me a man who is diligent in his work, he will stand in the presence of kings and not in the presence of unknown men.” One man that has distinguished himself in proving to be a diligent man is the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Ike-Oye. The APGA boss, who is marking his 30th wedding and 60th birthday anniversaries with an Ozo title and Charity Day, has proved that he is a diligent man and someone who can be trusted. Looking at the way he has also managed his personal and political life and community service, Ike-Oye has shown that he is a leader worth celebrating.