She just wanted to be addressed and known as Mama Enough is Enough. She, like every other protesters, was not happy with situation of things in the country particularly the vacuum created in the running of government by the ill health of the president. Thus, she joined hundreds of other Nigerians from all walks of life last Thursday, in a peaceful protest over the stagnation in governance occasioned by President Yar’Adua’s illness and his refusal to hand over government to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

By Helen Ovbiagele, Woman Editor “Look Helen,” whispered a friend to me at her friend’s private school’s end of term and prize-giving day ceremony, “I can’t bear it anymore.

Lusting over the opposite sex could be intoxicating. How far you can go in ‘netting’ the object of your affection could be as deranging as the worst of fevers.

T oday, I celebrate the life of a great man, Mr. James Emeziem Nworgu, Classicist and Justice of Peace. News reached me that Mr. Nworgu passed, this past week into immortality. I felt an immediate twinge of regret for I had missed one last opportunity to see him last June when I buried my own father.

THURSDAY’S public declaration by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that President Umaru Yar’Adua should resign if his health is impending him from performing in office is a fallout of the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, BOT of the PDP in Abuja, Sunday Vanguard can now reveal.

By Kolade Larewaju GOVERNOR Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State yesterday reviewed  the crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party, PDP,  in the state and declared that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole was a curse to the state. He also dismissed  former Minister of State for Finance, Alhaji  Jubril Martins Kuye as […]

A chilly Sunday morning with bright sunshine in Jos the Plateau State capital was something to relish as the allure of getting up to warm up in the sun increases.

“Successful leaders at all levels love their status and power and are hesitant to leaving voluntarily”.
Jack Welch, Chairman, General Electric Company, 1988.

Mr Jobinson Ogbuma of the AC has won the House of Assembly re-run election for Etsako Central Local Government Council of Edo state held yesterday. He was leading in six of the 10 wards at press time. Voters turned out in large numbers for cast their votes.

At least 150 bodies have been recovered from wells around Jos following Muslim-Christian clashes in Jos and environs which the estimated death toll already stood at over 300, a village head and volunteers told AFP yesterday.

By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said yesterday it had uncovered  a plot to smear its  image and that of its officials especially its Executive Chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri through series of blackmail publications. The publications are allegedly  funded by some sacked bank executives who are now being prosecuted […]

By Dayo  Johnson , OVER 200 natives of Ondo State have been  evacuated from the crisis ridden Jos. They are mainly Youth Corps members who arrived Akure, the state capital at noon yesterday. The rest  are students of the state origin  studying in various  institutions of higher learning in Plateau State. They were conveyed in […]

This is the first of a two-part report on Anambra governorship election scheduled for February 6. It focuses on the umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and its preparations for the poll.

As living witnesses to the shambolic toga that elections in Nigeria have become, Nigerians are again expressing scepticism as the election for the governorship of Anambra State gets closer.

Chief Razak Akanni Okoya, last week, celebrated his seventieth birthday with a series of events. Family and friends came out in droves to identify with the chief whom many have described as kind, generous and humble.

Chief Benjamin Ndi Obi seldom talks to the media. Starting from his days in the Nigeria Advance Party, NAP, Ben Obi, as he is simply called, makes no bones about his foray into politics and his mission. But in this session, Obi speaks on the state of the nation and the mega party being packaged by some politicians.