Wonder of wonders! We claim to have all these powers in Africa and yet we are so poor and backward,” said Steve. Didn’t you hear about what happened last Wednesday at Ijaiye where a woman called two children to come help her read a text message on her cell phone.

Early morning release of four Lagos-based journalists, Sunday inside the hinterlands in far-away Ukpakiri, Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State, should not just be simply celebrated. It should be a poignant call to duty for both the people, security agents and governments at the local, state and Federal levels.

We were kept in the bush and the rains were beating us.
Our captors remained with us. They blind folded us and when the want to lead us to a new location, we will hold each others hands. If you fall, that is your business.

APOSTLE Anselm Madubuko is the founder/senior pastor, Revival Assembly, Ogba, Lagos. In this interview with SAM EYOBOKA, he speaks of preparations for his church’s 8th annual conference tagged Azusa beginning on Wednesday and other national issues.

ALMOST two weeks after the inauguration of the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor, many eminent Nigerian political and religious leaders have continued to send in congratruatory messages to his offices

The president of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor,on July 6, became the first Pentecostal minister to emerge as the president of the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. In his first interview in his church office in Warri, the cleric speaks on his programme for Nigerian Christians and expresses his views on next year’s elections.

The first salvo was caustic: “Nigeria is becoming a progressively worse country and we have gotten to a stage where the administration we just complained about yesterday or just got rid of is considered better than the new one.
“Just look at Goodluck Jonathan. The court gave a judgment on the Bauchi State Deputy Governor who was wrongly impeached and yet, the state governor, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, refuses to obey the court judgment. Even as bad as late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was, he would not just sit and watch the show of shame in Bauchi where you have two deputy governors. That is the sad story of my country”. Kayode Fayemi is of the Action Congress, AC, and was its governorship candidate in the Ekiti State governorship contest of 2007. His pedigree as an intellectual of global reckoning compelled us to seek his views. You will not be disappointed.

THE menace of kidnapping in Abia state became noticeable about two years ago but assumed a very worrying and dangerous dimension last year when residents of the state, especially Aba, the commercial capital, deserted the city and relocated to other states, mainly Abuja, Lagos and Asaba.

The Ebonyi state police command has arrested a 45- year-old man, Chibuke Onwu, suspected to have attempted defilement of a two- year-old baby at Hausa quarters in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

In Niger State, the Police arrested a middle- aged man, Ayuba Umar who confessed to have been hired to kill or kidnap a hotelier in Keffi. Two fake corps members, Temitayo Eniola Ogueyungbo and Theresa Chinenya Ugwu were also rounded up while trying to register officially at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Paiko.