Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who chaired a special committee set up by the National Economic Council, NEC, in this interview with Sunday Vanguard insists that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration plundered the nation’s economy despite the defence being put forward by the former Minister of Finance, and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Tragedy struck in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital when a -200 level student of integrated and computer science education, at the Federal College of Education (FCE),Osiele, identified as Oluwatobiloba Adeniyi, was reportedly killed by a rec kless driver.

Timi and I served as technical experts on elections with the Independent Elections Commission of Liberia to organize the first post civil war election in that country in 1997. Some 5 days ago, he called me to commend last week’s article in this column, titled, “Who should the police tear gas?” Tim was delighted that i openly commended Mrs. Amina Zakari, the Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for her policy decision not to defend in court an election marred by malpractices done by her officials.

President of Ekklisiyar Yan’uwa A Nigeria, EYN (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria), Rev. Samuel Dali, has said that, despite the harm insurgency has done to members of his congregation in the North East zone, there is hope as the war against Boko Haram will be won.

Jesus establishes three spiritual laws pertaining to prayer. He says: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8).

The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, said, yesterday, in Awka, that armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism had remained rampant in the southern states of Nigeria.

Until recently, I did not take keen interest in who becomes the next governor of Bayelsa State, but recent defection of some bigwigs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) since the emergence of the latter, as the ruling party, has attracted my attention to the issue.

One year and one month ago, Ebola came to Nigeria and the experience, for most Nigerians, was like embarking on a trip to Golgotha, the proverbial place of the skulls.

In just a couple of weeks, it will be one hundred days that the president, Mr. Muhamadu Buhari, assumed office as the elected president of Nigeria. There will be a lot of panegyrics commissioned as usual in the buyable spaces of the Nigerian media by sycophants and hangers-on, in praise of the president. Some will compare him to God – in his, well, God-inspired-omniscience.

By Odugba Ochuko In Vanguard of 19th August, 2015, on page 39, Barrister Jesutega Onokpasa, APC, chieftain in Delta State, published an article in which he made all manner of unfounded allegations against the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa. From the article titled, If Only it was O’tega in Delta, Onokpasa has shown that he […]