INEC ponders partial extension
As more and more Nigerians continue to turn out to register as voters, the decision by INEC to either extend or stick to the two-week allotted for the exercise would be determined by the content and context of reports from its field officers across the country, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.
On that model PDP primaries
When I wrote ‘2011: On a Wing and a Prayer’, I had jocularly asked the perplexing question: “between Jega and Joe who will take who to hell or who to heaven? Will they both make hell or altogether lose Eden?”.
Nwodo’s successor stokes tension in PDP
THERE are strong indications that since the ousted national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, was forced to resign, the party has been polarized over his successor.
‘Customs repositioned to tackle smugglers new techniques’
Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), saddled with the responsibility of curtailing smuggling, recently increased income-flow into the economy with N962million as Duty Paid Value (DPV) recorded within four months of operations.
Politics is in our hearts
I was privileged to attend the National Convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Lagos on Saturday, January 15, 2011. I arrived early as Chairman of the occasion making me part of the opening ceremony which took-off with a prayer from one Christian and another from a Muslim.
Killing Chidi Nwosu
In a quiet and obscure corner of the world; a little and hardly known place called Ameke Abam, in Abia State, a gruesome crime took place last December 29. Chidi Nwosu, a human rights activist and campaigner for democracy in the state was brutally murdered in his home.
