It is comforting to note in these days when the slogan for many young people’s marriages seem to be ‘ Me & My Interests First’, a few of our young people are holding on to the principle of ‘hanging in there and together, making it work’.

A spiritual journey is an adventure of sorts and it is where experiences and real life events can shape anyone’s perception of the divine. In the course of one’s life, God will become real at some point in time and the quest for more meaning is moulded by manner/religion.

A modern philosopher has also added his own list, the stomach which demands food everyday and the sea into which all rivers flow, yet never seems to have enough.

By Simon Ebegbulem Edo Democratic Coalition (EDC), a socio-cultural organisation in Edo State, has described the dissolution of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF,  by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan as a “wise decision” and urged him to pick somebody who will be well accepted by the generality of the people of the state as […]

t a time when the Nigeria polity is in a state of flux, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced a provisional time table for next year’s elections. Expectedly, there are hoops and hays. But this report will show why all may not be well with the key actors for whom the time table has been announced just as it also defines the limits and limitations as well as the challenges of any electoral body that would conduct the elections next year.

The aura of invisibility weaved round the cabal and the political structure created by ailing president Umar Yar’ Adua seem to be cracking with the dramatic dissolution of the Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday March 17, 2010, by Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan anxious to write his chapter in the nation’s history.

What would ordinarily have been a simple matter, last Friday, became another source of tension in Jos, Plateau State capital, creating fresh panic and sending people scampering into safety from another possible blood bath.

Barnabas Gemade was the first elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He had served as a minister before. In this interview, Gemade brings a fresh perspective to the issue of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua and the role many have accused his wife, Tuaria, of playing. According to Gemade, it is not for Nigerians to blame a woman who has decided to protect her husband.

MEN of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Delta state have launched a manhunt for a bomb producer said to have configured the explosives that were used to disrupt the post-amnesty dialogue by Vanguard Newspapers, last Monday, at Government House Annex, Warri.

By Emma Aziken Pity the lot of Chief Tony Anenih last Wednesday as the local politics of attrition between him and Governor Adams Oshiomhole took centre stage in the Senate chambers on that day. It was a contest that the most zealot of the famous leader’s followers would not have bargained for. As the battle […]

A repeat performance of the Jos bestial killings, within weeks; brings to the front burner the question of security in Nigeria and our approach to state policing.

ELEVEN persons including nine pupils of Aricent Nursery and Primary School in Ore , Odigbo council area of Ondo State perished in an auto crash while 28 other pupils sustained injuries late Wednesday along Ondo/Ore Expressway.

The Senate has vowed to scuttle the return of some of the ministers sacked by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan this week.

Mr. Emmanuel Ehidiamhen Okoyomon, Chief Executive of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC); also known as the mint, is in an understandably upbeat mood. He is basking in the genteel applause that has characterized the turning around of the Mint, the company responsible for the printing of the Nigeria ‘s currency, government certificates, receipts, postage stamps, University certificates, WASC certificates, amongst others.

Mr SOLOMON Edebiri is the president, Nigerian Institute of Welding, an affiliate body of the International Institute of Welding.In this interview, he captures the recommendations of his institute to the Federal Government on the Ajaokuta Steel Company. According to him, practical steps should be taken to revive the project if Nigeria truly wants to be among the top economies in the world.