It all started with my appointment by CAF as one of the four General Coordinators for next year’s Nation’s Cup to be hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. By implication I was to be part of the draws to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.

HI Readers! The bus tour of London really loosened me up, and all the loneliness and self-pity I had been experiencing disappeared fast. I couldn’t help wishing that we had something similar back home, say, in Lagos , Abuja, or any of the big cities. It’s so relaxing and educative too.

When I consider what Nigerians are exposed to in all areas of life in this country, I can’t help but admire their high spirit of tolerance, perseverance and ‘make do.’

As a young girl, she discovered her gift of speaking in tongues and prophecy at a time when she knew virtually nothing about such things as she was born into an Anglican church family. Fate had its way, and today, Bishop Chioma Grace Dauji is the Founder/Presiding Bishop of Amazing Grace Pentecostal Church in Lagos. She shares with Vista Woman her passion for serving God and humanity, particularly her work with prison inmates. Her words:

For some time now, the National Assembly has done some good work in its effort to redirect public affairs to the path of good governance. The Assembly has been busy getting several government officials to appear before it to clarify certain issues of public interest.

A few days ago, I was discussing with a colleague who is a Professor at the University of Lagos. Along the line, he told me that some of the things I wrote concerning our union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and its proclivity to indefinite strikes made his stomach churn.

The evolution of caterpillar to butterfly is the transformation of a creature from ugly to beautiful; from obscure to outstanding and it is a process quite a few of us humans can relate to.

Each time Sanusi Lamido Sanusi opens his mouth, most of us are compelled to listen. For he makes some good sense. But this is not to say that we do not say some good sense as well.

“It is expected that based on the implementation of the Vision 20:2020 Economic Blueprint, which again goes to the root of resource management, the nation’s GDP should be growing at about 14 per cent per annum from 2010 to 2020, to realize this vision.

The ‘new black’ is a term mostly used in fashion circles to describe a new or recurrent trend. When someone used the term to describe rape in our society; I thought to myself how apt, given the incessant number of incidents that have occurred in recent times. Babies, toddlers, teenagers, fully grown women, boys and girls; nobody is speared.

One is getting unusually stressed up these days as a result of the very unsavoury news we get about our economy, politics and the future of Nigeria. Everything we do in Nigeria has a corruptive undertone; appointments, fiscal responsibility, allocation of resources, distribution of wealth, and appropriation of responsibilities, patronage, and general lifestyles.

I love watching crime, thrillers and court- room or legal-based movies. It is quite intriguing for me to see how the perpetrator of a particular crime could get away with it due to lack of sufficient evidence, how the detectives arrive at a conclusion that leads to the capture of a criminal, or the thrill of the chase when the killer tries to escape from the police.

I n faraway Australia, a point of clarification arose among the highest officials of the Commonwealth at their recent meeting, about the situation of the highly controversial oil subsidy in Nigeria.

THAT’S not all the LNG boys have done – not by a long shot. If you have doubts, ask the people of Abua, Ekpeye, Ogba, Ikwere, Okrika and Kalabari towns, here in Rivers State, where the company has built schools and supplied educational materials, including desks or the hospitals and equipment they have been running.

THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has just failed in its bid to nullify the results of last April’s presidential poll because the Election Petition Tribunal dismissed the CPC’s case on the grounds that it lacks merit.