“IT is a struggle for a better Nigeria. For me, it is paramount to keep our fathers’ wealthy dream intact. In Save Our Plateau, I want to draw our attention to the values inherent in the entertainment industry, where I chose to practice as a filmmaker – a noble profession! Our country needs a new name! A new agenda; not the divide and rule system that’s bedeviled us for the past 50 years.

Book: Maybe Tomorrow

Author: Soji Cole

Publisher: Artisfaction International

Pages: 48

Price: Not stated

Reviewer: Peace Ogbe

IN a world where the language of warfare has become that of the street, business and even scholarship, the message of peace is no longer understood. Notions of peace are always scoffed at and ridiculed as the struggle for survival becomes a daily endeavour in war or near-war situations. Soji Cole’s play Maybe Tomorrow, a two-act drama script, captures this and projects into a better future.

A BOOK, due for public release this week is making all the news waves for the controversial stance of its authors, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.

The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Itigidi Parish, has bestowed an award of excellence on the wife of the Cross River State Governor, Mrs. Obioma Liyel Imoke, in recognition of her laudable contributions to humanity.

Nobody has been punished for being involved in religious crisis by government to serve as a deterrent to would-be offenders and that is why you have the crisis here and there in the North.

Ambassador Kate Opara, the National Coordinator of IBB Mandate, has described former military President Ibrahim Babangida as a performer whose laudable achievements while in power would remain memorable to Nigerians.

The Governor of Taraba State, Pharm. Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, has described as unreasonable, stupid and foolish the posture of the leadership of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) in the state on the implementation of its six demands, including the new salary scale just approved by the Federal Government.

The Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, on Friday said the state-owned Osun State University (UNIOSUN) will continue to be a model in impacting developmental education.

Ahead of the governorship election in Ondo State, a political group made up of all major political parties in the state and a section of the ruling Labour Party (LP) have come together to form a platform to wrest power from the state Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.

Tinkering with various options to instill confidence amongst its members in Anambra State, the newly inaugurated State Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has said that it will engage the services of priests in the conduct of its forthcoming congresses.

DIRECTOR of the Distance Learning Centre (DLC), University of Ibadan, Prof. Francis Egbokhare, has described the perennial struggle for university admission by many secondary school certificate holders in Nigeria as a manifestation of the hunger for education.

A Northern-based non governmental organisation, the Alliance for Survival of Democracy (ASD) on Friday in Kaduna,the capital of Kaduna State, asked the Kano State Governor and presidential aspirant of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, to support the candidature of a former governor of the state, Senator Kabir Gaya, in the next governorship race in the state.

The people Bayelsa East Senatorial District of Bayelsa State, has passed a vote of confidence on the Senator Nimi Barigha-Amange, who is presently representing them in the Senate, and also, unanimously, resolved to given him their support and ask him to return to the Upper Legislative Chambers in 2011.

The Minister of the Environment Mr. John Odey, has expressed doubts over the ability of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to fulfil its responsibilities to the nation with the inadequate manpower at its disposal.

The cholera epidemic, which has assumed the status of a devastating hurricane sweeping through the Northern part of the country, has now recorded 6,497 cases with 352 deaths and the Federal Government recently alerted the nation that the entire country was at risk of the epidemic.

FOLLOWING incessant attacks on the house of a CPC gubernatorial aspirant in Bauchi State, Alhaji Sariki Abdullahi Adamu, popularly called Dan China, the police in the state has tightened up security at his residence in Sabon Gari, Toro Local Government Area of the state.

A media and corporate communications professional, Mr. Steve Osuji, has declared his intention to represent Isiala Mbano Constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly, beginning from next year.

AS political parties put finishing touches to their preparations for the conduct of primaries for the various elective positions in the country, a sociopolitical organisation, Gombe Concerned Citizens Forum (GCCF), has sued for peace and unity among the people of the state throughout the period of the transition, urging the best and most competent among them to declare their interest in the various elective positions in the state, to enable the citizens have enough time for objective assessment of the aspirants.

GOVERNORSHIP aspirants in Delta State on Saturday stole the show at the rally in support of President Goodluck Jonathan's presidential ambition.

A Delta North Senatorial District aspirant, Hon. Ned Nwoko, has led the Delta State chapter of the Goodluck Jonathan Movement for 2011 to declare war against inordinate ambition for power.