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Professor Dora Akunyili is alive says family members. By Michael Akins on May 31, 2014. Few hours ago a website (names withheld ) posted online that the ill-health  former minister of information and communication and Nafdac boss, Professor Dora Akunyili has passed on, eliciting messages of “RIP” on the social media, but fresh reports from the stable of TheCable, an online news site,  revealed that the former director-general of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is alive and her family are “ very baffled ” by persistent rumours of her death. A family member who – declined to be named– spoke with TheCable said, “ She is not dead ,” “ It’s appearing to us that while many people are genuinely concerned about her health, some are actually wishing her dead. We cannot understand the motive .” He told TheCable that the family is “ baffled ” by the unrelenting rum...

Reports have it that the founder and Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, advised President Goodluck Jonathan to find means of resolving the crisis rocking some states in the North so as to prevent the country from turning into a war zone during a workshop organised by the African Leadership Development Centre held on the university campus early in the week. Speaking on the theme: “The Leadership Imperative: Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution Demands for Inspiring Transformation and Driving Change”, Oyedepo stated that though conflict was unavoidable in any part of the world, it was important that the leadership of the country dealt with such in order to avoid a state of war. “War is a sucker. It sucks the resources of a nation. Only those who don’t know its cost propagate it. We must not have war in Nigeria. We should not even think of it. Its consequences are unimaginable. War is a crime against humanity. It erode...