Over 130 farmers were present at the official launch of Mokk Investments 6,000 hectares of cassava farming project, an empowerment programme organized in the catchment of Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority, in Oke Odan area of Yewa South Local Government, Ogun State.

Amid tension and confusion over the siege laid by soldiers from the Nigerian Army to the Maitama Extension District, with over 400 on-going and completed houses belonging to Nigerians trapped, the Senate has served notice it will wade into the issue.

Vicar General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Rt. Rev. Monsignor John Aniagwu, says Christians can take traditional titles but should have nothing to do with traditional religion.

The invitation by President Muhammadu Buhari to every Nigerian to introspect and engage in value re-orientation cannot be dismissed as many critics have attempted to do. This is because whatever pains the nation is going through today cannot be distanced from the contributory negligence of the people. As it was at the dawn independence, so it still is now that Nigerians are making no effort to reject our convoluted democracy.

The PDP Chairman, Delta North Senatorial District, Chief Moses Iduh, and Executive Director, Social Services Development, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Hon Ochor Chris Ochor, gave the charge at a reception held by Ochor for the new members of the executive in the area.

A group called Anambra North Unity Forum, whose primary aim is to ensure that Anambra North retains power come 2017 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, has emerged. The Chairman of the group, Chief Sylvanus Ohaemesi (Ochudo), in this interview, says the mandate currently enjoyed by Chief Willie Obiano belongs to the people of the area and that his group is prepared to work round the clock to ensure that Anambra North takes the second tenure with or without the incumbent governor.

What more appropriate way isthere to remember Isidore Okpewho – scholar, classicist, and novelist, than to invoke Ovid, the exiled Augustan poet, who was banished from Rome by Augustus, and whose melancholic longing for Rome inspired some of the most vivid poetry ever crafted by man?

IT was a little incident, but it opened the floodgate of nostalgia, I’d arrived late at a wedding reception and was ushered to what looked like the high table. The groom’s mother is a close friend. I sensed rather than saw this look of disapproval burning into my scalp. I turned, and there she was – Dolapo’s wife. I held her gaze and gave as much hostility as she emitted. She promptly looked away. How long ago was it? Over 20 years at least. I’d met Dolapo on a flight from abroad when he wangled his way to the empty seat by my side in first class. Those were the good old days!

When the National Hospital Abuja (NHA) was made a referral health institution in September 1999, the vision then was that Nigerians from all walks of life will not have need to travel outside the country to access health care.

SINCE the price of oil began to drop last year, government has been encouraging agriculture as alternative source of revenue for the country.
Some Nigerians, who heeded the government call, are doing very well in farming and creating jobs for a large number of youths.

DOES the thought of living life sugar-free fill you with horror? If so, you may unknowingly be addicted. In fact, sugar is believed to be eight times more addictive than cocaine. Some people are more sensitive than others, but the more sugar you eat, the more likely it has taken hold of your addictive pathways and is driving you to eat – and drink – far too much.

Everywhere you look in Calabar, Cross River State capital, you find estates which have been abandoned due to squabbles over the sharing of inheritance.
The squabbles are sometimes so fierce that machetes and the dreaded charm, Ekpetiaba (kills within five days), are used by desperate members of families to eliminate or subdue siblings in order to take ownership or the lion share of estates.

Sir Emeka Nwokedi is Music Director, Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos. He is also Music Director, Lagos City Chorale; Music Director, Anglican Diocese of Lagos Mainland and Organist and Director of Music, All Saints Church, Surulere. In 2013, he was appointed, Member, World Choir Council representing Nigeria. He is the Official Representative of Interkultur (Organizers of World Choir Olympics) in Nigeria; ,a Member, International Society for Music Education (ISME) and Trustee of Nigerian Guild of Organists.