In short, MEND’s demands seek plainly to revisit the national question, and this is the true olive branch that would provide grounds for disarmament. Let us, of course, not overlook the subtle threat behind the federal government’s offer of amnesty and the six-month window for disarmament.

Race is a deep cesspit of absurdities. One of the inverted theoretical justifications of slave trade and colonization is the doctrine that the White race is innately superior to the Black race

Madam, I don’t care what sex of children my wife and I produce,” said a colleague. “Our major concern before we got married was that the Lord should give us healthy kids, and the where withal to cater for them properly. In His wisdom, He gave us three girls first and then a boy.

THE just concluded week long Life in My City festival, which held in the coal city of Enugu, no doubt recorded strong achievements in many ways and also reveals that there are still rooms for serious improvement. As a cultural festival, the project initiated three years ego by an Enugu based outdoor advertising company, ROCANA Nigeria Limited, with collaborative support of Alliance Francaise, Enugu and Nigerian chapter of Pan African Circle of Artists, PACA, has in the spirit of its founding father, chief executive officer of ROCANA, Robert Oji, largely succeeded in re-inventing the use of art and culture in re-mobilizing youths towards a positive social development.

On Saturday 20th of June, Senator Florence Ita Giwa feted friends and well -wishers to a pre-carnival luncheon at The Eko Hotel & Suites.

A lot of depressed rich people can confirm that the acquisition of more stuff is not necessarily nirvana, inner disquiet and the unexplained hunger that drives most people into spiritual arenas is a human experience that is common to all.

Writers are more than town criers. They are reminders and have the advantage of looking back into the records in the bowels of time to tell you what they said when the come came to become (if we must revisit Mbadiwe’s memorable lines). On June 29, last year, I wrote a piece, The Niger Delta Swamp.

BY  SIMON EBEGBULEM FORMER chief whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, says it will be     completely out of place for the Federal Government to build the proposed Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in Kaduna now that the nation is experiencing a serious crisis in the Niger Delta. He, therefore, wants President Umaru Yar’Adua not to […]

BY JIDE AJANI PRESIDENT Umar MusaYar’Adua has reached out to governors in the opposition political party in oil producing states pursuant to actualizing his resolve to end the restiveness in the oil-rich region, Sunday Vanguard can reveal. One of the ways Yar’Adua is going about this is by conceding the nomination of members to the […]

*Soldiers looted, sold my television — Chief Ekpebide By EMMA AMAIZE Warri-THE Presidential Committee on Amnesty plans to dispatch psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors to the various rehabilitation camps it is setting up in the Niger-Delta for militants who are willing to accept amnesty  because it believes some of them are on drugs and may have  […]

“We are dealing with a very dangerous situation. Getting experts and equipment into the country would take several weeks for the process to complete”, he said. “We are dealing with a life threatening situation as his two kidneys may pack up any moment from now.

By  EMMA AMAIZE NIGER-DELTA elders,  today,  at a meeting in Warri, Delta State, gave four conditions that should be met by the Federal Government for its peace process on the Niger-Delta, including amnesty for militants to work. They, however, volunteered to set up a contact group to liaise with all the militant groups with a […]

By FUNMI KOMOLAFE & SHUAIBU INALEGWU SENATOR Adamu Galba Talba and the general secretary of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Comrade Marcus Omokhuale, have disagreed over the Senate decision to slash the education and health budgets of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to fund road projects. The Senate had last Wednesday […]

If you watch his videos again, you’ll find out that the quality of some of his videos is better than many of the ones we even try to shoot today. He was a very unusual person. It looks like he saw the future.

THE Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has  expressed disappointment at the little gains of 10 years of democracy in the country, saying Nigerians have witnessed near collapse, rather than development of the nation’s socio-economic infrastructure. The church noted, with dismay, the abject decay in the nation’s rail, road and water transportation network, electricity and water supply, […]