When our correspondent visited the National Kitchen, security men were seen preventing vehicular movement along the Kitchen Road while a crowd of people gathered on one side of the road patiently facing the kitchen and repeatedly saying Amen to prayers coming from the kitchen department.

The late Nigerian football legend Stephen Okechukwu Keski may have passed on, but his football legacies and memories are still fresh in the minds of many Nigerian football fans whose lives have been touched by his football artistry.

Since the removal of the former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on Wednesday, July 20, there have been allegations and counter-allegations on how the 2016 budget was mutilated.

No sector has been spared in the recent spiral downturn of the economy, not even Nollywood in all its glamour and glory. Ex-Delta girl, model and Nollywood actress Shirley Igwe, recently in an interview with Potpourri takes on issues on her personal life and life as a Nollywood actress.

It was not too long ago when the nation appeared to be on the verge of a total break-up on account of the activities of herdsmen and the atrocities they have allegedly perpetrated countrywide. Governor Fayose, who speaks first and thinks later (if he thinks at all) had pronounced that grazing was no longer allowed in any part of Ekiti State and became an instant hero to people who would not ordinarily consider him a sage. Similar noises have been raised in other places including on the pages of newspapers by respected columnists. One of them after allowing his own opinion to become “the voice of the people” had ordered Buhari to pack all the cattle to Northern ranches immediately. His position found resonance in editorials and articles written by Southerners. Well, while elections are decided by majority vote, wisdom is not a matter of numbers. The majority can be wrong.

Recently, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) and the Nigeria Metrological Agency, NIMet, issued warnings that a number of states are likely to experience high flood this year. Weather forecast through the Seasonal Rainfall Predictions indicates that Lagos could be one of the areas prone to the looming floods. Following this prediction, Lagos and seven other states in the South West zone of the country got together to take proactive emergency preparedness response measures. In this interview, Head of Operations and Logistics, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Femi Giwa, warns that up to 5,000 residents of the state may become homeless this year from floods. He opens up on strategies to be employed to tackle the looming disaster. Excerpts:

The Nigerian blood is a special one that flows under an equally thick skin that takes all sorts of shocks, blows and embarrassments. It is this special blood running in Nigerians that distinguishes us from citizens of other countries, especially in Africa. We are created to absorb shocks, and accept whatever is thrown at us without any complaint.

Congratulations you are in the month of August . What is our goal? How do you want to attain this goal? As human beings we are limited . To achieve our goals we need Divine Intervention .

“There were three attempts on my life and near abduction in 2005 at my residence and God, in his mercies, delivered me”.

Nigeria’s U-23 team will face a test of intention from Sweden this evening in their Olympic group B tie tonight, after their exhilarating 5-4 win over Japan with barely four hours to match day in Brazil.

IT’S no secret that sex in the office is as commonplace as sex in anywhere convenient – all you need is a little bit of privacy and a lot of ingenuity.

Gunmen have abducted Mr Iti Watson, father of Mr Alfred Watson, member representing Brass Constituency II in Bayelsa State House of Assembly.

AUCHI, the headquarters of Etsako West Local Government Area, was the first port of call for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the September 10 Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. The choice of Auchi, the senatorial district of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, which came few days after the party had, in Benin, flagged off its governorship campaign was strategic. The party could have moved to Edo Central to kick start the campaign, but it appeared the PDP chose to complete the most arduous of its tasks and settled for the local government many considered as a stronghold of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has slated Wednesday, August 17 to hold the party’s national convention where new leaders. The convention is expected to bring to an end, the lingering leadership crisis that has dogged the party since its last convention in Port-Harcourt.

As I argued earlier, the clash of ego between Melaye and Mrs. Tinubu that occurred in the Senate, not in the House of Representatives as I erroneously stated last Sunday, was blown out of proportion in the press. Journalists relish sensationalism; oftentimes the make mountains out of molehills by focusing too much attention to inconsequential misbehavior of politicians and celebrities mainly to boost the sale of their newspapers and magazines.