Every bit of human knowledge is from the past whether immediate or distant. Just like historians would say, what happened long ago matters in our present lives.

Two weeks ago, the Nigerian mass media showed they are still game for any swindler who wants to manipulate them. That was when the British National Crime Agency (NCA) released a report of its internal investigation of allegations leveled against some members of the team that had investigated and prosecuted Chief James OnanefeIbori and his associates in the long-running London trial.

The pension scheme has a tremendous ability to provide the working class comfort when they retire. Over time, government has rolled out policies, the PenCom Act 2004 as amended in 2014 being one of them, to enhance workers welfare, especially when they retire, but many small businesses neglect or dodge their implementation.

A top-ranking Nigerian lawyer has respectfully disagreed with the National Judicial Council that it has the overriding powers to try all matters relating to the conduct of judges in the country.

Last weekend, Star Boy Records henchman, Ayo Balogun, aka ‘Wizkid’, reportedly fought and lost a battle of supremacy, with his Tanzanian counterpart, Ali Kiba, at the Mombasa Rocks Concert, headlined by American superstar, Chris Brown

The President advised all of us at the recently concluded Economic Summit to start patronising made in Nigeria products. I am sure many Nigerians in this harsh economic climate will not need too much prompting if the products are available and affordable. It is both patriotic and prudent to so do.

Reprieve has finally come Nigeria’s way as Germany has earmarked 18 billion euros for the revival of drying lake chad through the diversion of rivers in the Congo Basin.

Afrobeat maestro and four-time Grammy nominee, Femi Kuti has set the mood for the 15th edition of Felabration with a superlative and tantalising performance at the Hard Rock Cafe on Thursday.

We have serious work to do, if we need to catch up with the rest of Africa and the world in the next four years, because we are lagging behind

No class of Nigerians suffers from prejudicial generalization like our political leaders. From classrooms, to newsrooms, to boardrooms to living rooms, wherever Nigerians meet they are most likely talking about bad political leadership in the country.

This year’s Abuja International Film Festival, AIFF, which ended last Friday amid glamour, will go down in history as one of the biggest events that ever thrilled the residents of the Federal Capital Territory,FCT, in recent times.

Saturday Vanguard gathered from top individuals who were involved in the negotiations leading to the release of the girls that most of them were kept by a faction loyal to the son of the founder of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, in areas around Lake Chad while the rest of them were with another faction loyal to Abubakar Shekau.

President Muhammadu Buhari last Monday solicited Germany’s assistance in the areas of equipment, training and sharing of intelligence with the Nigerian Navy to curb oil theft in Nigeria. He spoke when he received the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Frank Walters-Steinmeier at the State House, Abuja.

When Jesus chased away those who had made the defilement of the temple their occupation, he was perhaps short on due process. But that is what rottenness and wanton impunity invite – drastic intervention. If that synagogue were a Nigerian institution, many would have flung his rule of love at Him. And labeled him a rascally hypocrite – preaching love and ruthlessly whipping elders.