The last visit of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the ceremonial president in the first republic, to Zungeru, Niger Delta, his birth place, was on November 16, 1991. It was shortly after a colourful ceremony organised to raise funds to build Zik Centre, located in the town, to mark his 89th birthday. Earlier during the second republic, precisely in 1983, during his political campaign to Zungeru when he was the presidential candidate of Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP), Azikiwe took time off his political schedule to visit his birth place.

Dr Wale Ahmed is Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties. Ahead of the demolition of some defective buildings at Oke Afa, Isolo, he presented N200,000 each to the occupants to relocate. In this piece, he explains how the state government is assisting victims of emergencies even as he appeals to Lagosians(particularly those in flood prone areas) to relocate because of the anticipated intensity of forthcoming rains.

Did anybody recognize Hon. Binta Garba last week? She was unmistakable. You couldn’t have missed her in the recording which revealed her wrestling and hard-hitting abilities. Ask Hon.Hafiz Adenowo from Oyo State: He not only got his cloths torn by Binta, a few slaps were added.

People may have their different views about the action of the 13-year-old stowaway boy, Daniel Oikhena, but he has become some sort of a super star, going by the attention being paid to him by security agencies and the Edo State government. Daniel, on Saturday, August 24, stowed away in the wheel well of an Arik aircraft from Benin-City to Lagos.

The Enugu State command of the Nigeria Police Force has commenced a full investigation into the incident of an alleged murder that occurred in Ogbodo- Amukwa Village, Nsukka. It was gathered that last Wednesday, at about 9.30pm, the neighbourhood watch group of Amukwa village were holding meeting at their town hall during which an alleged fight broke out between one Ndubuisi Agbo and Innocent Ozioko who is a member of the neighbourhood watch group. Consequently, Agbo was shot on his stomach.

The alleged sexual molestation of a 10-year-old girl (name withheld) at Abraham Adesanya estate, Ajah-Lagos, by a tanker driver simply identified as Edward, believed to be in his late 30s, is currently raising dust as the victim’s father has cried out against the ‘unsatisfactory’ manner the case was handled by the Police at the Ogombo Police station. He alledged he was being forced to drop the charges on the grounds that it was a “minor offence”, and that there was no “penetration in the course of molestation”.

He probably had little reason to take the challenging path of fighting the establishment, given the comport and conditions around the country’s governors. But not Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State who was nurtured in the Aminu Kano political culture of using political power to fight for the masses.

Siyanbola Oladipo is the Managing Director/CEO Bowill Errands Courier Limited and Gen. Secretary, Association of Nigerian Courier Operators (ANCO). In spite of the challenges of being born in a polygamous family, he has remained focused; keeping the dream of being great within him and that has manifested today.

Hon Charles Ekhoetomwen Idahosa is the son of Akasiaka (strong and untouchable) of blessed memory. He is a political juggernaut as long as the politics of Edo State and Nigeria is concerned. Today Charle T, as he is fondly called by friends and political associates, clocked the sexagenarian age of 60 and its celebration is at Benin today.

August 31, 2013, will forever remain indelible in the memory of the staff and management of Federal Medical Centre, Azare in Bauchi State. It was on that day that the Chief Medical Director of the Centre, Dr. Musa Mohammed Dambam and the District Head of Yamai Village in Dambam Local Government Area, Alhaji Adamu Manu, were brutally killed by gunmen suspected to be hired assassins.