AFTER feasting on the meal, she asked me to go home. I ran from the shed, hopping and skipping along. On the way home, I joined some boys playing street football (soccer), ensuring, however, that I got home before she did. Aunt came home that evening and announced to all that I had been admitted to GovernmentCollege, Ughelli.

LIKE an old train couch, the year 2013 in a jerky swing but consistent style of each closing season of a year draws to a close.

BEHIND these were the white enamel toilets, where you pulled on a chain to flush after use and water came tumbling down to clean it out.

I FIRST came across the phrase a ‘Huge Construction Site’ in November 1999 during a tour of Germany sponsored by the government of that country.

SHORTLY after the move, I received a letter through my elementary school that I was invited to Government College Ughelli for “a short list examination and interview.”

It was an opportunity and they grabbed it with both hands.
The aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, (G-7) wanted a reason to dump their party and they were handed one by no other person than President Goodluck Jonathan himself.
And although some of the seven governors explained that they all knew that Jonathan was not prepared to meet with them and resolve the issues that gave rise to the crisis, given his body language and the sustained acts of impunity arising from the party leadership, they waited for the appropriate time.

Hon. Henry Ofongo is no doubt President Goodluck Jonathan’s man friday. He represents Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency of Bayelsa State, the home country of the President. In this interview, he told Saturday Vanguard that the PDP still leads the National Assembly.

Believe it or not, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who defected to All Progressive Congress (APC) alongside 4 other erstwhile PDP Governors has a legion of supporters. One of them is Hon. Seconte Davies who currently represents Bonny/ Degema Federal Constituency of Rivers State in the House of Representatives. He told Saturday Vanguard in this interview that the PDP is facign a great threat to its existence.

WHAT fate now awaits the leadership of the House of Representatives in the light of the new development? Where does Speaker Aminu Tambuwal belong? Will he join the APC to keep his seat or sacrifice it? These are obviously questions earnestly begging for answers now that most of the G7 Governors have defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The Saturday, November 16, 2013 Vanguard health report and its earlier version in the November 11 edition of Vanguard, “NMA threatens Amosun over alleged unkempt promises” are embarrassing to Ogun state government.