For the second year running I have been warned by my kinsmen not to dare come home for Christmas. My family would be easy prey for prowling kidnappers. Now for a rural “boy†like me, this is nothing short of tragic. A calamity of unimaginable proportions. No matter what I may be today, I am essentially a village man at heart.
The Senate President, who spoke in Otukpo while hosting an end of year get together for all political stakeholders in the Benue South Senatorial District, urged all political leaders of the zone to shun politics of bickering but strive to ensure peace and stability in the zone in particular and Benue state in general.
THE name Eldrick Tont Woods does not ring a bell as Tiger Woods, yet both names refer to the same person, the man famously known around the world as Tiger Woods.
By Festus Ahon
UGHELLI — THE eight host communities to the Abura Oil Field operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company limited, NPDC, at Udu Local Government Area of Delta State have issued a 14-day ultimatum to the company to vacate the area due to incessant oil spill.
By Anayo Okoli
Umuahia—THE Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Chief Agwu Agwu, says that contrary to views held in the state about the high debt profile of the state, that the state was no longer heavily indebted to any organisation.
Agwu also cleared the air on the approval the House gave the government [...]
The remains of the former First Lady, Mrs. Maryam Babangida, who died on Sunday, will be buried tomorrow, just as the Niger State Government has declared a three-day mourning for the people of the state, in her honour.
Political hawks have successfully convinced President Umaru Yar’Adua to endorse the Supplementary Budget to be operated till next March, and also worked on him not to sign another document to allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan act as President, Vanguard can authoritatively reveal.
IT definitely seemed like a mismatch when the announcement was made in December 2008. A professor of Pharmacy was going to be Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Communications.
Virginity is a thing a woman can not discuss with her husband. In our own days, virginity was still accorded much respect and a woman who still has her’s was the pride of her husband. But all the same it did not really matter where the woman is not with it.
STILL gloating over the peace it is said to have created in the Niger Delta, the Federal Government has again shown the shallowness of its engagements with Nigerians.
The disarmament of the militants was an emergency measure solely for the survival of the economy.
Only two months after the amnesty was closed, and with the [...]
By John Moyibi Amoda
WHAT would we say specifically of societies in Africa? Why can’t we capture their political conditions through the concept of failed state?
The reason this is a difficult theoretical enterprise is because security and order like other goals and objectives are projects. They are not an inheritance. This is why weak [...]
According to him, “it is not the money or noise you make on television that gives you credibility. The quality of your product, the quality of your deliverability, the quality of leadership, the contentment of your citizens and the level of security in your country is what should matter.
Al-Qaeda has claimed the failed December 25 bombing of a US-bound aircraft in a statement posted on an Islamist website yesterday, US monitoring organisations said.
BOLTON Wanderer’s defensive bulwark, Daniel Shittu, has said that playing as a unit would be the only way that the Eagles can win the Nations Cup in Angola.
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