A group under the aegis of  Concerned Indigenes of Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State has criticised the member representing the council in the state House of Assembly, Dr. Olisa Imegwu, for accusing the state government of marginalizing the area in the 2010 budget. It said the accusation lacked merit and asked the […]

The Director General of the Nigerian Film Corporation, NFC, Mr. Afolabi Adesanya has described ace newspaper columnist, Dr. Stanley Macebuh, who died last week, as a great mind who impacted profoundly on people’s lives. In a tribute to the deceased, Mr. Adesanya said: “Stanley Macebuh!  He was an excellent boss, a good friend and a […]

By George Onah Hundreds of Rivers State residents are  suffering from glaucoma, a silent blinding disease which has been traced to racial, ancestry, family history, high myopia and age. Speaking to Sunday Vanguard in Port Harcourt, weekend, consultant ophthalmologist in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr. Adebayo Adio, said “some form may occur at […]

Delta State Government plans to provide mechanic villages for the twin cities Warri and Effurun, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan announced in Effurun at the weekend. Governor Uduaghan on an inspection of the dualization of Refinery Road said the envisaged evacuation of motor mechanics to a village was part of efforts aimed at making the areas clean. […]

All of a sudden, the language changes to suit the new situation. Fortunately, the matters involved are very simple and straightforward to people who are not shackled by demands of office.

State governors have been flip-flopping on the import of the incapacitation of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since November 23, 2009. This report examines what their role ordinarily ought to be at a time like this but concludes that self-serving interests and the bug of myopia have combined to create a blurry vision for the state governors. Why? The ambition of some of them for 2011 is at stake.

He is a medical doctor but is more well known as a rambunctious politician. Massive looking Doyin Okupe could be a stormy petrel. You may not be sure of his weight but during the still-born Third Republic, when Okupe first served as Director of Publicity for the National Republican Convention, NRC, and later Director of Field Communications for the Bashir Tofa Presidential Campaign Organisation, he pulled some weight.

Hiring of a foreign Technical Adviser should have been better during the second stanza of the World Cup qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup holding in to South Africa. from June 11 to July 11.

FORMER Super Eagles defender, Yisa Sofoluwe, has said that Lars Lagerback, the new Super Eagles coach could not take the team to the semi finals in the FIFA World Cup coming up in South Africa.

Redeployed Super Eagles assistant coach Fatai Amoo is not bothered with the decision of the Nigeria Football Association (NFF) to re-assign him to again work as an assistant to coach Shaibu Amodu who was redeployed to oversee Super Eagles Team B.

President General of Nigerian Football Supporters Club Dr. Rauf Ladipo has called on Nigerians to sheathe their swords and support Super Eagles Technical Adviser Lars Lagerback as the Swede prepares to lead Nigeria to the first World Cup to hold on African soil. Ladipo said the overwhelming call for a foreign coach came as a result of Nigeria’s poor performance in Angola, where Nigeria won bronze but did so in a tasteless manner.

Member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Association, Alhaji Alili Galadima was confirmed dead in an automobile accident on Friday evening.

On a night, Ivory Coasts’ Didier Drogba clinched his second African Footballer of the Year, Globacom, the Official Sponsor of the annual Awards ceremony has been commended by the President of Ghana who described the company as one all Africans should be proud of.

Ikoyi Hotel, one of Nigeria’s most sucessful and pivotal inns has undergone a rebirth. It now known as Southern Sun Ikoyi Hotels. Representing a timely change of brand and image, the 100% Nigerian ownership of the hotel remain unchanged but management is now being exercised by The Southern Sun Hotels, the largest and one of the most successful hotel groups in Africa .

As controversy continues to trail the recent approval of new licences to private firms to build 18 refineries in the country, stakeholders are divided over the development. While some said that the exercise may fail as those granted the licences are the same people importing petroleum products into the country, others are of the opinion that government must be strict about such companies meeting the deadline or revoke their licences.