Following the controversy over the alleged padding and errors in the 2016 Budget, some corporate economics have raised concern on the implication for national economy recovery and foreign capital inflow.

Are you joyful? What is the basis of your joy? Is it based on something you have? Is it based on something exciting that happened to you? Is it because your grain and wine increased? (Psalm 4:7). If so, beware, because that is building a house on the sand. When the storm comes and the wind blows great will be the fall of your house and your joy.

It is actually to the credit of the National Assembly that the gross errors of Nigeria’s 2016 Federal budget were spotted and brought to quick light. I have been a critic of the inaction and complicity of the legislative arm in the defrauding of Nigeria since 1999 by the various elected governments of the federation.

Mr Kayode Ajulo, until recently, was the National Secretary of the Labour Party. In this interview, he explains why he left the party and debunks speculations that he may have been picked to succeed the outgoing governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko.

Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele is a year older today, Sunday, February 14, 2016. He started heading church at the age of 16 and has made tremendous successes in the last 39 years in that he now has churches in Nigeria, Europe and the United States. Ayodele, who prefers to be best called “servant of the most high God” as against primate, bishop or a general overseer, did not start off as white garment church man as he was born into the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Idi-Oro, Mushin, Lagos where his father was a front runner and which the Junior Ayodele attended until 1972.

President Mohammadu Buhari yesterday said that the utmost desire of the late former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed was to make Nigeria a better country.

Air Vice Marshal Lucky Ochuko Ararile (retd) is the Ovie of Umiagwha Abraka Kingdom, Delta State. Before he retired from the military, he commanded many formations including the Operation Restore Hope for the Niger Delta. He was later appointed the Coordinator of the Amnesty Committee that midwifed the Amnesty Programme for ex-militants by former President Umar Yar’Adua. In this interview, the retired air force officer bares his mind on the $2.1bn arms deal involving a former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), and some top military officers, among other national issues.

IT was a job that was to fetch him N300,000. But the table was turned and, instead, a 44-year-old ex-convict, Festus Balogun, ended up in police detention where he is cooling his feet. For months, the suspect had been on the wanted list of Ondo State Police Command as detectives tried to smoke him out of his hideout, following complaints by some pastors of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) that someone was blackmailing them for pecuniary gains.

Mr. Damian Dodo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has told interrogators how five lawyers, who prosecuted multinational firms implicated in the $185 million Halliburton bribery scandal, were paid close to $26 million as legal fees.

It’s another season to express your love, whether you are in a long term relationship or a new found love. Whether it is to a family member, friend or colleague. It is a day that is supposed to transpire thoughts of happiness, gratefulness, kindness and consideration.

I have known Bob Bamgboye for many years, and for all the years I have known him, he has always been into martial art in a big way. He is a man on a mission: he wants to get more Nigerians involved in martial arts.

Nigeria and Manchester City wonderkid, Kelechi Iheanacho is not dazed by the startling form of the likes of Dele Ali, Harry Kane and others in the Tottenham line up billed to take on title contenders, Man City at the Etihad Stadium. That match comes up 5.15 pm, this afternoon.

Arsene Wenger is out to spoil Leicester City’s party and the Arsenal manager said he will not hold anything back against their unlikely title rivals when they meet today.

Our country is bleeding profusely from the blows inflicted on it by the apparently unending Boko Haram insurgency; another possibly prolonged round of blood-letting has started with the pro-Biafra movement which recently claimed reportedly over twenty lives in Aba on February 7, 2016. The last thing we need now is another religious conflict; and certainly not in Kaduna state. Yet, the stage is being set, even if inadvertently, for one. That would constitute the mother of all tragedies to befall Nigeria.

Governor Samuel Loraermyi Ortom of Benue State is one of the many governors that had faced many battles in their pursuit to rid their states of corrupt practices and enshrine fairness, equity and justice for all.