COMPARISONS between Boko Haram and the militants in the Niger Delta, as the explanation for the proposed talks between government and the group in Maiduguri are inevitable, though many would refuse to see the connection.

Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Mr. Gideon Ekeuwe, yesterday, appeared before the state House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts, and said that the office of Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, had so far received only N1.6 billion for projects spread across the state.

I was in Abuja on the last Saturday of June 2011 and found that I could not leave my home or attend to any business activities until after 10.00am. It was environmental sanitation day. I remembered with angst, the military brutality that attended the introduction of environmental sanitation in Nigeria.

For those who throng the Airforce Base in Ikeja recently for a friendly match between Lagos Sheraton hotel and the Four Points by Sheraton, Lekki they did not expect to see two ex Eagles players on parade.

He strikes as a subject of controversy to many including some who see him as over-zealous. But Rt. Hon. Innwa Garba who was the former Deputy Speaker and now Speaker of the fourth Gombe State House of Assembly radiates a passion to entrench a strong foundation for the Nigerian legislature. Calm and careful he is indeed a young man with lofty aspirations to leave his foot-prints on the sands of time. In this interview, the Speaker asserts his commitment to contribute his quota to lift Gombe from economic and political doldrum

In an apparent response to the suspension placed on trading of their shares on the floors of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Omatek Ventures Plc and United Nigeria Textiles, UNTL, Plc have submitted their financial statements for the 2010 financial year.

CHIEF Peter Nwaoboshi is the Delta State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview with Vanguard at his Asaba residence, he explains why he recently went on a trouble shooting mission to the former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, at Abuja, a move that political analysts interpreted as a further sign of crack in the mainstream of the PDP family headed by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. “

Mr Musa Sada, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development has said that the Federal Government is determined to diversify the country’s revenue earning through the development of minerals and metals for export.

In the noble exercise of attempting to plan for the future greatness of Nigeria, perhaps it would be necessary to peep into the past and examine the present. Before the peculiar amalgamation of 1914, British military forces had already prepared ground for Lord Lugard who gave the country the name, Nigeria.

Kano municipal was thrown into festivities recently following a court order directing the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero to reinstate an influential kingmaker, Aminu Baba Dan’Agundi, sacked in 2003 by the monarch.