The icing on the cake for the ongoing ground breaking efforts of Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman to reposition Kwara state to the path of prosperity was the meeting with African Development Bank in Abuja penultimate Monday.

WHEN  Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, last month, stated that he was demonstrating what his predecessor and unquestionably, political mentor, National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, taught his followers, including him, many accused him of impertinence, but cautiously looking at events in the past few months, he seemed to have spoken the unpleasant truth.

Nigeria never ceases to rattle and amaze me. With all its chaos and crisis, there is no place quite like the country in the world. It is difficult to understand what drives this most populous of Black nations on earth.

The sight of a woman and one of her sons on a wheel chair in front of the Logistic Command of the Nigerian Airforce , at PWD, along the Agege motor road, Lagos, would pass for beggars to any passer-by. But they are not. Rather, they are family members of late Benedeth Edoh Nku, a Master Warrant Officer in The Nigerian AirForce.

Minority caucus of the House of Representatives has said that the killing of three intelligence officers by military personnel in Taraba State is an international embarrassment.

Nwachukwu Anakwenze, a renowned American –trained physician, is the President of World Igbo Assembly, an umbrella body coordinating Igbo activities in the Diaspora.

The unending battle for supremacy between two rival cult groups: Aiye and Eiye, has claimed not less than three lives with several others injured at Epe, Oworoshoki and Ikeja areas of Lagos state, in two weeks.

We had more than we bargained for. That is just the best way to describe what happened to three African journalists earlier this week. The trio of Nassir Kingu from Tanzania, Igho Akeregha and I both from Nigeria, made a brief ‘escape’ from the rest of the journalists (no fewer than 45) currently attending a training programme in China, to buy a few stuffs outside the city centre and then stop over at the historic Tiananmen Square, now a tourist centre.

From an orange seller in Ogun state to a gospel singer in Lagos state. This is the story of Ayomide whose orange seller story went viral with his vocals while singing Tope Alabi’s song.

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun popularly known as Wizkid is a reporter’s delight any day. He may not be your every day artiste, but if your are privileged to encounter him, it would probably take you a long time to erase the sweet memory of that chance-meeting with the superstar.  That’s the experience our reporter recently had , meeting the superstar. It was the first  interview he was granting to any national daily in a long time.