Professor Okey Ibeanu, who teaches political science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was a resource person to the Niger Delta Technical Committee headed by the leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, Mr. Ledum Mitee. He recently spoke to Vanguard in a telephone interview.

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—After taking a hard look at the nation’s precarious political situation, maverick Oguta-born politician, Senator Arthur Nzeribe, has said that  “the military should strike if they think the environment is ripe for that.” Nzeribe, who made his position known, while addressing newsmen  in Owerri, also said that the nation’s relation with the […]

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN — OVER 7,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  in Igueben, Akoko-Edo and Owan West local government  areas of  Edo State, including business mogul, Chief Domingo Obende and the state Assistant Organising Secretary of PDP, Mr. Gallant Paul, have dumped the party for the Action Congress, AC. Obende suspended —PDP…. […]

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Newswatch Communications Ltd, publishers of Newswatch magazine, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed, has joined the race for the governorship seat in Kogi State.

By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  yesterday arraigned two persons, Frank David, alias ‘Col David’ and Emeka  Nweze, before a Federal High Court, Enugu on an eight count charge of attempting to obtain N3 million from the Chairman of Nkanu East Local Government Area, Enugu State, Ejikeme Ani, by falsely presenting […]

Dora Akunyili. The effervescent, quintessential amazon, fought drug barons and their couriers to a standstill in Nigeria. She strode where men feared to perch and waged war against fake and adulterated drugs and poisonous food in her erstwhile position as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.

NIGERIANS are getting to the reality that every part of the country wants to free space and whatever resources it can for itself. The arguments are not about who settlers are and who are the indigenes, they are about the fact that Nigerians are now grappling with issues of citizenship. It is an issue that deserves handling with uttermost sensibility and sensitivity.

TURKEY, one of America’sstaunchest allies in the Islamic world is furious. Its anger is turned against the United States for a vote on March 4, 2010 by the House, Foreign Affairs Committee which characterised the wholesale massacre of Armenian minorities as a “genocide”.

HUNDREDS of Plateau women, yesterday, staged peaceful demonstrations in Jos and Abuja against Sunday’s mayhem at Dogon Nahawa where hundreds, mostly women and children, were murdered.

LAST week, I criticised the many PDP members who objected to Yar’Adua being “foisted” on them as a presidential candidate but maintained a cowardly silence when Obasanjo (aka OBJ) instructed them to vote for Yar’Adua at the party convention in 2006…and are now bitterly blaming OBJ for problems that wouldn’t have arisen if they had stood up to him.