I don’t see the reason why they should shy away from the truth of the matter by enacting laws to protect our farmers and our citizens from the rampaging herdsmen

Head and Spiritual Leader of INRI Evangelical and Spiritual Church, Oke Afa, Isolo, Lagos, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, needs no introduction among members of the Lord’s Vineyard who have predicted positively for the love of country.

What we need is to put our own acts together. We fought a war to protect lives and property but why are we kidnapping our own people; why are we seeking the down fall of our own people, why don’t we do onye ahana nwanneya (be our brother’s keeper). If you go to Abuja and you are given a job, you allow your brother and come in there and speak Igbo and not when he speaks Igbo you will say mba, no, don’t speak Igbo here.

That’s the challenge we are facing now; some jumped into the business without proper foundation and legal backings and so the result is inevitable. Some want to tarnish the image of our business. What we are doing here in Enugu for instance is different from what every other person or company is doing. Before we started, we looked at the laws guiding such business and we tried to have enough legal backing to give our business a solid foundation.

Rear Admiral Mike Onah (retd) says Nigeria should face the reality by using a radical approach to resolve the current challenges facing the nation, saying it will lead to the transformation of the country.

Bishop Charles Ighele is the General Superintendent of Holy Spirit Mission Church, the Happy Family Chapel. In this interview, Ighale speaks on the arrest of some judges, corruption and the state of the economy among other issues.
On the clampdown on judges by the DSS

As preparations for the coronation of a new Oba of Benin intensify, the Onojie of Opoji and Vice Chairman, Edo State Council of Traditional Rulers and Chiefs, His Royal Highness (HRH), Ehidiamen Aidonojie 1, disclosed to Saturday Vanguard how traditional rulers who have their roots from the great Benin Kingdom are awaiting the coming of a new Oba. He explained how the Oba had remained the permanent chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers and Chiefs, describing the Oba of Benin as the Supreme leader of Kings in the Kingdom and a first class African King.

Aisha Buhari’s interview with BBC: We only knew Fashola, Amaechi, few others

Niger State is home of Tourism. Zungeru town is where a Briton, Lord Luggard, as well as the first President of the country, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe settled, and married. It was the same town where the amalgamation of the country took place and the name Nigeria chosen. Besides, Lord Luggard, the first indigenous President of the country, Dr. Azikiwe, late Biafra leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu and some other prominent Nigerians were born there.

ONE of the highlights of the just concluded annual IMF/World Bank meeting in Washington was a presentation by the Secretary General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, at the G-24 Ministerial Meeting that took place on the sidelines of the meeting. Barkindo thereafter held an interactive session with the media where he gave insights into efforts to forestall further slide in crude oil price as well as how the slide in prices is affecting OPEC members.