THE First Diaspora Igbo Economic Summit in Atlanta, USA, has resolved to set up a special fund education. In a communiqué at the end of the two-day event that ended May 30, it was resolved “to organise the Igbo Diaspora to provide the necessary support for quality vocational education across Igboland that will afford the Igbo unemployed the opportunity to learn valuable skills for the modern economy”.

He argued that they should adopt other peaceful methods, having internationalized the struggle, adding that dialogue was the only way out of the Niger Delta problem at this point in time.

By Henry Ayanruoh DURING  one of the religious crises in the North, one of our national leaders asked: How did we become so careless and so uncaring to have allowed our senses to be so insidiously deadened by the rhetorics of short-sighted little men who make us accept as normal carnage and exploitation which once […]

WHY was Savannah Bank Plc shut down in 2002? The Central Bank of Nigeria claimed the bank was unable to meet some of its obligations, the bank disputes that to date. A Federal High Court in  Abuja ruled on 20 October 2006 that CBN’s closure of the bank was legal.

BY DONU KOGBARA Last week, relatives and supporters of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni activist and writer, secured a historic $15.5 million settlement from Shell, the international oil company they have persistently blamed for Ken’s November l995 execution. Given that Ken has, for nearly twocades, been regarded as an iconic environmental and human rights champion by […]

* There’s no division – Jomo Gbomo BY EMMA AMAIZE ONE high ranking member of the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), “Commander” Ogunbos, who led the confrontation with the JTF at the Igbomoturu Creeks in Bayelsa State during the last Easter opened up exclusively to Sunday Vanguard, weekend, on what appears to be […]

BY AKOMA CHINWEOKE AS the country continues to reflect on its ten years of civil rule, the coordinator, Civil Society Monitoring Group on the Ekiti re-run election, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, has said it is not time to lament about the challenges of electoral democracy in the country.

CHAIRMAN/chief executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Ahmadu Giade had reiterated his determination to deal decisively with every member of a notorious drug cartel operating at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos.

BY EMMA OVUAKPORIE THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] yesterday arrested 18 directors of the National Mass Literacy Commission (NMLC) over an alleged N271million contract scam.

BY KOLADE LAREWAJU THE Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) in Ogun State has told financial institutions in the country to disregard the resolution of the State Assembly asking that the executive be denied loan by the bank.

THIRTY FIVE year old  Briton, Matthew Maguire who was abducted about nine months ago regained his freedom from militants in the Niger Delta region yesterday.

And yes, that’s why we are collectively forgetful, I took a poll of people in their twenties and they were no better than me and my absent minded friends! The realisation started a quest in me for meaning, for more and this time not more things but more stillness, more peace.

It is the middle of the night as I write-a rare occurrence for me. Events of this past week, deeply personal ones churning inside me, pulled me from the deep sleep I normally enjoy.

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*‘Next constitution should be small and smart’ BY GBENGA OKE Former Senate president, Ken Nnamani, says the responsibility for the failure of democracy to consolidate in Nigeria is majorly that of politicians.  He also speaks in this interview on how to make the nation’s constitution work, the Yar’Adua government, the failed third term bid, among […]