IN SPITE of his high position in the Senate, he has never really managed to convince me that he has the qualities of a leader to match. Before the military intervened and created undeserved shortcuts for the many flotsams and bobtails that have now populated the commanding heights of our political leadership, a person occupying the post of Deputy Senate President had to be a man/woman of great intellectual and mental substance.

Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) and the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) are set to resolve the lingering land allocation crisis rocking the Lugbe axis of the territory.

Last week I had an alibi cast in iron. Last week I argued that since I was out of the country on that fateful day, I was not in a position to comment on our ouster from the Nations Cup.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Edo State, Mr. Kenneth Imansuangbon, has listed job creation and improved security as his priority if elected governor of the state.

ON Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, a public lecture was held to mark the 2011 Igbo Day celebrations, officially hosted by the Ebonyi State Government.

OCTOBER is regarded as Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), an annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.

The importance of electricity to a nation’s economic development cannot be overemphasised. Electricity can in fact, be regarded as the bedrock for any meaningful development. So in order for Nigeria to make her vision of becoming one of the 20 largest economies in the world by Year 20-20 a reality and not a pipe dream, all hands must be on deck to generate electricity from every available source.

“The worst thing that can happen to a leader is to look back and discover nobody is following”.
President John Kennedy, 1917-1963.

Dr Okonjo-Iweala already received my sincere welcome back to the hot seat, which had got increasingly hotter, for her courage and patriotism – even if the courage borders on foolhardiness and the patriotism laced with a martyr complex

PINK Pearl Foundation recently held its ‘Pink Kitchen’event at the 911 Field, NPA Road, Warri, Delta State, as part of events to mark the 25th world breast Cancer awareness month.

HOUSING provision is an important measure of social welfare and economic development in any nation. Some argue that access to adequate housing is an international human right. History reveals that governments of developed countries at every level have at different times played active roles in housing and economic development.

There is palpable fear in the insurance sector based on the news going round that the industry might lose motor insurance policy to the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) as a result of government directive that all drivers’ licences and plate numbers be automated.

Hi Readers! Please bear with the Vanguard as I apologize for those Mondays that this column was not published, and thank all those who felt concerned enough to send me text messages, asking what was happening.
In all these years this column has been running, God has made it possible for me to send down scripts to the Vanguard. I’m sure He’ll continue to allow this for as long as the column runs.

Multi-Trex Plc has lamented the high cost of funds from the local banks in the country, just as it disclosed plans to source for foreign loans of between seven and ten million pounds (about N2.5bn) to boost its working capital.

Nigeria’s naira eased against the dollar in thin trade at the inter-bank on Friday, failing to react to several central bank measures to support the local currency this week.