Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, Chairman, BGL Group and Former Honourable Minister of Finance, in this piece stated the causes and effects of the current global economic meltdown that started in the US in the middle of 2007 and through 2008 and has continued unabated and spread to Europe and other parts of the world which Nigeria is not in exception.
ekinat thought there was nothing wrong in dating a man who has a wife. Her father had three wives and her mother was wife number two. Her religion also allows that.
The Board of Trustees, (BOT), of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, penultimate Monday, kicked embattled Ejike Asiegbu out of office as its national president, and set up a caretaker committee, headed by Kanayo .O. Kanayo (KOK) with a mandate to reposition the body as well as conduct a fresh election to usher in a new administration within the next six months or thereabout.
If were familiar with the NTA Channel 10 popular TV dramas such as, ‘Tales by Moonlight†and “After the Storm†aired in the 80s, the name, Livinus Nnochiri will strike no strange chord to your ears. Nnochiri was one of the earliest talents in Nigeria who started out from the stage, before moving to the big screen.
Emma Ogosi may not be a house hold name today, but history will forever remember him as one of the pioneers of country music, a genre of music made popular in Nigeria by Bongos Ikwue. A former Air Force officer who passed out from the Air Force school with the likes of the late Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Ibrahim Alfa, Gentleman Ogosi, as the Asaba, Delta State born ,is better known by friends and relations, has certainly paid his dues in the music industry.
It’s almost a month since we celebrated June 12 as the watershed in Nigeria quest for democracy.
But beyond the shore of Nigeria, June 12 is beginning to have a similar significance for democracy especially in Iran and Turkey. June 12, 1993 was the day we celebrate the victory of a free and fair election in Nigeria as much as we mourn the tragedy of the abortion of that free and fair election.
Who should be older in a relationship- the man or the woman? What happens if the woman finds out that the man she wants to marry is younger? Will she go on with the wedding or simply walk away? Should the age difference be an obstacle to true love?
Some people now say what is going on in the Niger Delta is NOT war. They say it out, loud and clear. It sent me post haste to the meaning of war as described in the dictionary: “armed fighting between states, countries, or factions.â€
South Africa recently held its Election without the storm of protest that usually trails elections in places like Nigeria. Mrs Papela a member of the South African electoral Commission told Saturday Vanguard in an interview recently what they do to electoral offenders. Enjoy it.
By Emma Amaize
A man David Ukpokpo, was last weekend shot dead by a mobile policeman in the presence of his pregnant wife shortly after settling a dispute between a market woman and a resident at Effurun in Delta State.
Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that there was a heated argument at the Effurun market on [...]
No fewer than 94 physically challenged students of Rivers State origin in various tertiary institutions across the country have been offered scholarship, following which the students were presented with a cheque of N500, 000 each.
Poised to enhance operational efficiency and boost activities in the management of Collective Investment Schemes in the nation’s capital market, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is to abolish the annual supervision fees charged on all collective investment schemes while e-filling of monthly and quarterly returns are to be introduced.
By Tordue Salem
The House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora has begun the process to repatriate about 10,000 Nigerian teenage girls held captive by the sex-slave trade in Libya and Morocco.
The 10,000 girls aged between 13 and 17 are said to be from the southern part of the country and mostly from Edo [...]
The meeting between the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, again ended in deadlock as the parties maintained their hardline stance.
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