Chimdi Eke is one of the many Premier League fanatical fans. He supports Chelsea ‘for life’ and brags about the Premier League. He is also very knowledgeable about his club and many other clubs scattered over Europe. He recites the names of players in the Premier League as if it was a nursery rhyme. His only handicap is the Nigerian League. He knows next to nothing on the Nigerian clubs and has never watched any live match of any Nigerian club. The ones he watched on Television, according to him, ‘’killed’’ the little patriotic zeal he has.

Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa, has told the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded governorship election in the state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to take his case to the Governorship election tribunal rather than hiring innocent youths of the state to protest on the streets of Benin.

It’s a known fact that unfaithfulness is the bane of most marraiges and relationships. However, arguments abound as to who cheats more – the man or the woman. Saturday Vanguard as usual sought the opinions of some celebrities on this issue. Read their responses below…

Presidency has described as totally untrue the allegation that president Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the freezing of the account of former President Goodluck Jonathan and also stopped his allowances and those of other past leaders of the country.

THE leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday led workers to shut down operations at a Lebanese Firm in Abuja, Artco Industries Limited for alleged anti-labour activities and violations of labour law in the country.

When the former Anambra state Governor, Mr. Peter Obi refused to sit with Chief Willy Obiano and the other dignitaries inside the Peter Odili’s Hall inside the compound of Christ the King College, the import of his action was not lost on the other Old boys of the College, who had gathered to pay their last respect to Rev. Father Nicholas C. Tagbo, the legendary Principal of the famous college.

THE lives of everyone watching their weight were recently thrown into disarray when a leading food expert claimed that far from making us thinner, ‘diet’ products containing artificial sweeteners may actually be responsible for weight gain. For many of us, low-fat versions of our favourite foods: yogurts, fizzy drinks, spreads, biscuits, crisps and cheese—make us feel we can safely indulge in a little of what we want without piling on the pounds, by swapping natural sugars (at 40 calories a gram) for sugar substitutes that have just two calories.

I have witnessed many Independence Day anniversaries in my time. Right from the very first one when as a little school kid, we were given small green-white–green flags and asked to line the streets. Later, we were given free lunch and freer time to indulge in our favourite past time of games and pranks. I didn’t know what it all meant then but I learnt—through my parents, teachers and the passing years—that it was the day we gained the freedom to govern ourselves as we liked.

‘I didn’t know I was suffering from diabetes for years’

There were indications yesterday that kidnappers who stormed Lagos State Model College, Igbonla in Eredo Local Council Development Area of Epe, Thursday, abducting six persons, including the school’s Vice Principal, a teacher and four students., have contacted families of the abducted persons. But the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Fatai Owoseni said two of the students were rescued by the Police.

“At the risk of sounding boastful, I will say that my next move is to move ahead in life, I want to achieve new things, I want to be that African coach to coach in the EPL, I want to be that African coach to coach in the Spanish L’liga or the German Bundesliga. I want to be that coach to lead Super Eagles to win the first World Cup, those are the things I want to achieve”

Audu’s death was unfortunate. Its timing was profoundly problematic. But what is ludicrous is what it exposed. The lack of painstakingness in our attention to important details. There will always be hard cases in law. Cases will always lie on the fringes.

The Federal Government, yesterday, gave reasons why it decided to drop the two-count forgery charge it initiated against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, before an Abuja High Court at Jabi.

As some people clock 50 years, they begin to stare at retirement with anxiety. Many people put in 30 to 40 years before retirement. During these years of active service, some acquire reasonable assets and wealth to retire on. But it is not so for some; turning 50 becomes nightmarish because they realize they are getting to the end of their working life with little or nothing to fall back on in retirement.

CANDIDATE of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded overnorship election in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, yesterday led other PDP leaders and supporters in the state in a street protest against the declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the September 28 election in the state.