Less than three months to the end of the present administration, it has emerged that a powerful cabal in the nation’s oil and gas sector has commenced a move to stop the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, into law.

THE police in Netherlands are still holding Niger-Delta activist, Sunny Ofehe, incommunicado 12 days after he was seized from his Rotterdam home for an undisclosed offence.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has threatened to revoke the sale of Edo Cement Factory, Okpella, to private investors by past administrations if the factory did not bounce back to production in the next two weeks.

As 20,000 volunteers in the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) graduated, yesterday, the state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has charged them to prove critics of the scheme wrong by exhibiting the virtues of the training they received by becoming better citizens in their respective local government areas.

PEOPLE of Idheze community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, restated their commitment to the 72- hour ultimatum it issued on the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC), to comply with the Mamoradum of Understanding, MOU, it entered with the community from 2008-2011 or close down its facilities in the land.

Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim is a politician with a sense of history. In this interview, he takes the reader down memory lane, from the political developments in Nigeria in the first republic, down to the second republic in which he was actively involved, and the aborted third republic.Ibrahim also speaks on the formation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as a pioneer member, the administration of Obasanjo and the ongoing political process.

Well, it was discovered that women in most communities hardly had a voice to air their views; especially at a critical time when issues like gas flaring and routine environmental degradation was affecting their health, crops and livelihood especially in a community like Ekeregana in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State

By YEMISI SULEIMAN In a rare feat of maintaining standard as renowned retailers of some of the world’s most luxurious wrist watches, fine Jewelry and prestigious leather products and accessories Polo limited, recently launchedthe first fully functional Rolex approved workshop in West Africa . The inaugural launch of the Rolex workshop held on Thursday 3rd […]

I am amazed. This article marks the beginning of my fourth year writing for Vanguard Allure magazine. Each week my goal is to share principles and ideas that will enable readers to transform their lives. I try to put these principles in practice in my own life, but I am humbly aware of my continued growth opportunities

In this post colonial reading of V.S.Naipaul, Onwubiko Agozino provides another interesting dimension to the historic contribution of the black race in the evolvement of politics of non violence

IN old South-Eastern Nigeria, comprising the present Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, Anambra, Enugu, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Bayelsa and Rivers States of Nigeria, there are some ceremonies connected with traditional marriage, which must be performed before the bride and bridegroom eventually come to live together as wife and husband. Such ceremonies include: fattening seclusion, “Coming-of-age” and “Coming-to-meet” festivities

The title of our discourse is cloned from the book of Daniel, Chapter 5, Verse 25. According to the biblical story, Belshazzar, king of Babylon and son of the infamous Nebuchadnezzar, was enjoying a feast with his lords, princes, wives and concubines to celebrate “the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone.”

LEADERS of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday, vowed not to allow an inch of political foothold to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos and the other five states of the South-West geo-political zone.

From their hospital bed, one could feel their agony as they struggled to talk. They are victims of the bomb blast which rocked the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, campaign rally in Suleja, Niger State.

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Future historians writing about Nigeria might be forgiven for observing that the slave trade in the country lasted until 2011 – the year David Mark was the President of the Senate. Mark is ably supported by the Minister of Petroleum Resources and the GMD of NNPC, whose tenure had been elongated – probably to help get the atrocious bill passed as it is. The country’s number three citizen might eventually have an accomplice in the Federal Government – if the Presidency signs the bill before May 29, 2011.