Some of Africa’s leaders are responsible for the instability on the continent because they failed to manage diversity in their societies, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said.

Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, UN, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has said China’s successes may present an alternative development path for the country, which is different from the Western neo-liberal system that had long been prescribed.

AS the zero hour to the make or break AFCON 2017 qualifier between Nigeria and Egypt on March 25 approaches swiftly, stand-in coach, Samson Siasia is confident that his Eagles will convert the chances that come their way at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna.

Twenty years into the educational, vocational and social care services for children and young adults with disabilities in the country, Children’s Developmental Centre, CDC, and partners have called on Nigerians to learn to show compassion to people living with disabilities in the country.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, adjourned to April 4, 2016, hearing in the contempt proceedings initiated against the Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Edoror and the Clerk of the House, Mr. Lawson Ugiagbe, over their refusal to swear in the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Sylvanus Eruaga, as the representative of Etsako West constituency II, in the House to enable both parties to reconcile their internal differences on the matter.

THE Petroleum Industry Bill,PIB, would be re-presented in the National Assembly next week for subsequent consideration.

ABUJA—Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state has said that the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers or his own State would not be acceptable.

Chairman of Edo State Economic Team and All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has condemned what he called the negative dimension in which the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state was conducting its campaign.

IN the wake of the first profit warning issued this year coming from First City Monument Bank Plc in January, Vanguard Investor’s Forum had indicated that many more quoted companies would issue profit warnings due to the macroeconomic headwind of the financial year 2015. And within six weeks about six more came in with three leading banks involved.

NEWLY established Igbo socio-political and cultural organization, the Igbo Improvement Union, has set up various committees, including those of marginalization, erosion control and arts and culture in a bid to address problems confronting the Igbo nation.

Former Secretary-General of the Petroleum Energy and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASAN, Chief Frank Kokori, is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State. In this interview with Vanguard, he spoke on sundry national issues bothering Nigerians

Distribution companies in the country, DISCOs, have asked for more time and patience from Nigerians to improve their electricity supply.

Lagos—The embattled Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa, yesterday asked a Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere, to quash the criminal charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

THE President of the Nigeria Tennis Federation (TF), Sani Ndanusa has hailed junior tennis sensation, Michael Oshewa for winning a silver medal in the boys U-14 category at the 39th International Tennis Federation and Confederation of Africa Tennis Junior Championship in South Africa.

As economic downturn persists, the number of unemployed and underemployed persons in Nigeria surged to 22.45 million in the fourth quarter, Q4, 2015, about 9.1percent or 1.75 million, higher than 20.7 million recorded in the third quarter.