As Nigeria set to mark its 56 years of independence, Christ Embassy Church has called on Nigerians to embrace agriculture as a means of revitalising the nation’s economy.

Edo election: THE atmosphere was charged in Edo State ahead of today’s governorship election, as security agents from all indications have provided water tight security across the state.

Nothing in nature is so decried and yet so universally practiced as falsehood. A mighty, governing lie goes round the world, and has almost banished truth out of it. The greatest annoyance and disturbance of mankind has been from one of these two things, force or fraud; and force often allies with fraud. It is the tongue that drives the world before it and it is hard to assign any one thing but lying, which God and man so unanimously hate; and it is even harder to tell whether it does a greater dishonour to God, or mischief to man.

One could not help but cringe at the implied glee with which some in the social media – and indeed some corporate media – the failed attempts by notorious terror group, Boko Haram to again occupy some villages.

This is not the place to go into the details of psychology or how your unconscious mind can influence you without you realizing it. If you have been following me for a while, you know you can’t just focus on your body, you have to focus on your mind and emotions because they drive your hormones.

Today’s governorship election in Edo State was supposed to be among 19 candidates, but more attention, has, however, been on the two major candidates, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

THE Lagos State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, with African Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum, AWIEF, to facilitate the process of women having access to $300 million to boost their businesses.

WHEN Miss Faizal Abu bakar Sani, 17, a former student of Olumawu School, Abuja, was writing her West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination, WASS-CE, few months ago, little did she know that the examination would earn her a scholarship to study any course of her choice in any university in the world of her choosing.

Prominent religious leaders in the country, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to soft-pedal on the use of force against the dreaded Boko Haram sect, Niger Delta militants and other agitating ethnic nationalities, advising that dialogue was the panacea to return the nation to the path of peace and progress.

Against an earlier statement of possible shut-down of the country’s power supply over cash liquidity and gas supply difficulties in the power sector, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has faulted such claims, describing it as “inflammatory and insensitive to Nigeria’s national security.”

The Consumer Protection Council, CPC, has said Samsung Electronics West Africa Limited complied with the ultimatum given it on the recall of Galaxy Note 7 in Nigeria.

MR Godwin Obaseki was born in Benin City, the Edo State Capital to the famous and illustrious Obaseki family. He had his early education at St. Matthews Anglican Primary School, Benin City from where he proceeded to Eghosa Anglican Grammar School, also in Benin City for his secondary education.

Investors in the Nigerian stock market, yesterday, lost N4.9 billion as sustained profit taking in oil and gas stocks drag down the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE All share index by five bases points, bps.

THE Senate, yesterday, moved against last week’s recommendation of the National Economic Council, NEC, which asked the Federal Government to sell the country’s national assets.

THAT the country is in recession and the economic crisis in which we’ve found ourselves is biting hard is now old news. Yes, we are in recession and Nigerians are presently preoccupied with finding solutions to our economic troubles.