“Your leaders have no respect for their people. They believe that their personal interests are the people’s interests. They take people’s resources and turn them into personal wealth. There is a level of poverty in Nigeria that should be unacceptable. I cannot understand why Nigerians are not angered than they are.” This statement by Nelson Mandela, the late South Africa President, is likely to guide us as a nation from May 29, 2015, when the new President of Nigeria is expected to be sworn-in. It was a serious observation for Mandela, who had spent 27 years in prison, to declare that our leaders are corrupt and have no respect for the people. Has it always been so from the beginning? Where did we miss it? And if the story has been so from independence, what can we do to bring about a new nation with leaders that Nigerians need?

More twists have been added to the case instituted by former Adamawa State governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako, against his removal from office by the state House of Assembly last July.

In January, Coca-Cola swapped its iconic logo with some popular names among Nigerians when it launched the Share a Coke campaign. Quickly the campaign inspired a sharing frenzy among consumers who were excited to share the moment with people that matter most to them. Adjudged as one of the best marketing campaigns, Share a Coke has continued to delight consumers and occupy the front burner of discourse in the marketing world. In this interview, Patricia Jemibewon, Marketing Director, Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited sheds more light on why the campaign resonates with consumers and why Coca-Colacontinues to evolve and stay ahead of trends.

Media personality Denrele Edun is known as a mischief-maker who would stop at nothing to pull one practical joke or other. He has been called many wacky names and instead of getting fazed by it, the lanky dude has actually reveled in it.

Since Aituaje Iruobe, known as WAJE arrived the music scene she has pretty much kept things close to her chest. For her, is not the wild side of life. Until recently, December, to be precise, when she took the plunge in a near-nude photo shoot for the maiden cover of MADE magazine. It was a move many applauded for her boldness even though many more thought the soulful singer crossed the line

The recent clean bill of health issued Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which conducted forensic audit report on the alleged missing $20bn unremitted oil revenue, has laid to rest months of controversies generated by the allegation

Keep in mind that one of the reasons Gen. Ibrahim Babangida gave for overthrowing Buhari was that the latter is too rigid and opinionated to preside over a multiply plural country like Nigeria. Because of desperation to win in his fourth attempt to become President, Buhari now campaigns as if he has a magic formula to solve the myriads of problems facing the country within four years. His supporters think that as a retired general he can crush the Boko Haram terrorists at the snap of his fingers.

It is a passion that is seemingly strange in the kind of business she works in. Bankers are more known for extracting kobo here and there to maximize profit and not for giving. Mrs. Chinwe Bode-Akinwande, a top executive with one of Nigeria’s big banks, certainly does not see herself as a converted Shylock, claiming to have drawn inspiration from her parents.

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Apart from his promises to end insurgency, create jobs, restore the dwindling economy and generally evolve a new Nigeria, one other elaborate campaign promise General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, has repeatedly made is to stamp out corruption from the shores of Nigeria. But there seems to be an albatross on his neck. This deals with a widely held impression that a horde of persons who share an affinity with him in and outside his party are also corrupt. But even at that, is Buhari, himself, corrupt free? Will he achieve the purpose should he eventually win the election? Read to know the audacious move of, perhaps, the next president of Nigeria.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will not only carry the day in the March 28 presidential election but win with an overwhelming majority in all the local governments of Oyo State, according to Mr. Kehinde Olaosebikan, the Director of Publicity, Oyo State PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation.

TWO weeks to the March 28 presidential election, eligible voters in four local government areas of Edo State are yet to receive their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigerian (FAAN), yesterday, evacuated the body of a suspected stowaway who died at the undercarriage compartment of an Arik Air aircraft – Airbus A345, Reg CS-TFX – at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Female genital mutilation, ranging from the cutting off of the clitoris to the removal of the entire genitalia carried out from the youngest babies to teenagers has become a serious global public health and human rights issue.

With a little over three weeks to the gubernatorial election nationwide, the PDP candidate in Akwa Ibom State, Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, is set to win the race in a landslide. Apart from Akwa Ibom being a decidedly PDP state, Emmanuel’s message of hope, industrialization, human capacity development, job creation, a call for unity, and a gale of endorsements across all the three senatorial zones and numerous socio-political organizations and a campaign message based on issues, devoid of character assassination, vile rhetoric or morally objectionable approach has struck a chord among the electorate, making his victory all but a fait-accompli.