*Nigeria cannot continue like this
*My deal with Ibrahim Babangida
*Discloses: ‘I won in Katsina and Gen. Yar’Adua panicked’
*The problem with a Buhari/Falae ticket
In this interview, Chief Olu Falae, the presidential candidate of an alliance of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, and the All Peoples Party, APP, responds to questions [...]
By Jide Ajani, Deputy Editor
NIGERIA would be 49 years as an independent nation in the next 96 hours, from the hour of 00:00:01, that is the very first seconds of Thursday, October 1, 2009. That much for what Nigeria would become. On the scale of nationhood, what giant strides can Nigeria boast of [...]
THOSE raising the fear of Nigeria disintegration should not be dismissed as pessimists or dooms day prophets. The signs in the polity are ominous. Politically or economically it seems very clear that we are heading towards disintegration. And what has compounded the fear is the insensitivity of the leadership in our polity. The leadership [...]
Excerpts from the message delivered by the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, at September 4, 2009 Holy Ghost Service on the need to fast and pray for Nigeria
AS many of you know,Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboyet is a very important day in Nigeria, Independence Day. I [...]
*Tinubu is too big to be a sectional leader
By Ishola Balogun & Ebun Babalola
Life is to different people with different meaning. For a veteran and an accomplished media man like Dele Alake, his whole life is anchored on goodwill, his philosophy is all about affecting his environment positively. That [...]
MAIDUGURI – The Borno state Governor Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has appealed to the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) to go back to negotiation table with the Federal Government.
Sheriff who was represented by his deputy Alhaji Adamu Shettima Dibal made the appeal when the [...]
By Emmanuel Aziken
The President of the Senate, Chief David Mark has charged Speakers of State Houses of Assembly to liberate the National Assembly and their legislative houses from the apron strings of the executive through the review of the 1999 constitution .
Speaking at the 4th Conference of Presiding Officers of Nigerian Legislatures, (COPON) [...]
By Vincent Ujumadu
Awka – THE first phase of Anambra State’s urban renewal project has commenced with the flag off of the upgrading of Okpoko slum near the commercial town of Onitsha by Governor Peter Obi.
The project, which is being handled by Consultant Consortium is expected to be completed in four months.
Governor Obi [...]
As the curtains fall on the this year’s final of the Nigerian Breweries sponsored Maltina Dance All Televison reality show, the big question on the lips of everyone is, who emerges the winners?
By Taye Obateru
Jos – The Plateau State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has described the killing of late Bayo Ohu of The Guardian newspaper as a challenge to the new Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo to resolve cases of murdered journalists in the country.
The council in a condolence [...]
When my father died, my mother’s life crashed . Everything came to a stand still. My father had been everything in her life and unlike the older wives who were established, she was largely unsettled when he died.
By Ndahi Marama
Members of the Borno state Correspondents’ chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has condemned the killing of Bayo Ohu, the Guardian Deputy political Editor who was brutally murdered by unknown assassins last week.
The chapel after an extraordinary emergency congress yesterday in honour of the journalist , condemned and mourned [...]
By Taye Obateru
Jos – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has welcomed the planned intervention by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State in the face off between it and the Federal Government but called for sincerity on the part of all concerned for it to bear fruit.
ASUU’s National President, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie [...]
SUSPECTED kidnappers Thursday night abducted Chief Albert Ezenwafor, Managing Director of Albertina Nigeria Limited, a major dealer of Electronics and Furniture in Enugu and took him to unknown destination
Saturday Vanguard learnt yesterday that the popular Enugu-based Anambra businessman, was kidnapped by a group of young men who double-crossed his car while returning to his house at Independence Layout, Enugu at about 7.30 pm Thursday.
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