The Amnesty programme benefits all The Presidential Amnesty Programme finds it expedient to write you this open letter in order to correct the impression you created in your Easter message to some Ex-Agitators of the Niger Delta. Please among others, refer to Page 12 of the Wednesday, March 30, 2016 edition of the VANGUARD Newspapers titled “Lawmaker flays selective implementation of Amnesty Programme”

Typically, Amnesty International (AI) has issued a release calling for thorough investigation on the incident of the Army/Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) that took place in December 2015.

IT is common knowledge that Professor Wole Soyinka’s parents were from Ogun State. His father hailed from Isara, an Ijebu community while his mother was an Egba woman. Even though ours is a patriarchal society, the Nobel Laureate has always described himself as “Ijegba”, a word coined by him from his Ijebu and Egba roots. However, the Ijegba man has lived in Lagos and made it a home like many Nigerians and foreigners alike.

Celebrities appear to be getting famous on social media by the day. Call them social media celebs and you wouldn’t be wrong, this new class of stars are raking in both money and fame by just sharing stuff on our social media handle. But being social a media celeb is it all fun and games?

When in March, 2015, the executive governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, inaugurated the State’s University of Medical Sciences, the first of its kind in Africa, it was an opportunity to come to terms with the landmark achievements in that blessed state starting with the health sector.