AGAINST the backdrop of the dominance of French speaking countries over the English speaking nations, Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali has condemned what he described as the overbearing influence of French language against Engish at the Lake Chad water border

Christmas is at hand, the period when money is on the mind of most people and the spirit of consumerism reigns supreme. Of course, money is important. The Bible has a realistic perspective about money. Ecclesiastes 10:19 says, ‘money is the answer for everything’.

Professor Tony Afejuku is an Itsekiri activist and former Head of English Department, University of Benin (UNIBEN). In this interview, the poet reviews the political events in Delta State and says the opposition spearheaded by elder statesman, Chief E.K. Clark, to the return of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan as governor of the state is ill-motivated.

Nothing is all evil. Previous military governments gave us two decrees, which in retrospect, we might wish had been incorporated into our 1999 constitution. The second was the Failed Bank Decree of the Abacha administration. Although I was placed in detention four times during that regime, I will forever pray for Abacha for at least temporarily sanitizing the banking sector.

We lost our national guinea pig, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, to the cruel hands of death last week, at age 87. He did not die in America or England or India. He died in a hospital in Benin City, a lover of his ungrateful country unto death. In the Sunday Vanguard of June 11, 2000, I wrote a piece on The National Guinea Pig.

Going by the abysmal performance of PDP at the federal level and in most PDP-controlled states since 1999, it would really be advantageous for our democratic evolution if the party loses the presidency and majority in both chambers of the National Assembly. But that is easier said than done.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, has taken quite a lot of our time these few days. If you ask me, I will say it is good he did. It was a question of money and of course, integrity. It was a popular uproar. Sanusi could not refuse to answer the summons of the sovereign parliament. He even agreed he could be sacked.

Tomorrow in Cairo, 4-3-1 does not quite make it as playing formation but later in the night, one of the above numbers might resonate a significant meaning. Samuel Eto’o is eyeing his 4th CAF Footballer of the Year title, in a fascinating contest, that could also make Didier Drogba a 3rd time winner or see Asamoah Gyan crowned first time winner of the prestigious award.

Barely a year after she was crowned ‘The Amazon Of Cross Rivers’ at the famous Tinapa Resort by the First Lady of Cross Rivers State, Mrs. Liyel Imoke, Cross Riverians just did honour again to their proud Princess of Bakassi, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa.

P rofessor Bolaji Akinyemi was Foreign Affairs Minister during the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida administration.
As a foreign policy expert, Sunday Vanguard went after him in the wake of the Wikileaks saga last week and made some startling discoveries about Nigeria’s foreign policy slipshod.