Another take on two key issues, by Donu Kogbara
I have an uncle called Jonas Odocha. He is a graduate of Imperial College London, a retired former senior executive at NNPC and an author of a book about agriculture. He possesses a lot of integrity and has strong views about most issues of national importance. I occasionally share his write-ups with Vanguard readers on […]
Why I focus holistically on women, children—Obioma Liyel-Imoke
BY JOSEPHINE IGBINOVIA-AGBONKHESE In the last seven years of her husband, Senator Liyel Imoke, piloting the affairs of Cross River State, Mrs. Obioma Liyel-Imoke has devoted her soul to advancing the status of women and children across the nooks and corners of the state. “I’m making sure Cross River is fit for women and children,” […]
Patrick Okpomo house
At the last Delta State Challenge Cup, I had the privilege of being honoured by the Delta State FA as a contributor to the development of football in Nigeria.
SAS as presidential consort
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan’s sizzling political romance with Alhaji Nmodu Sheriff (alias SAS), the widely acknowledged godfather of the Boko Haram Islamic insurgency group, has confounded even some of his diehard sympathisers. Let me tell you a little bit about Sheriff.
Missing $49.8b and missing organs in the Nigerian economy –3
Lawyers, as a whole, constitute a pain in the wrong end of the body. As necessary evils, they are more evil than necessary. Priding themselves as “learned” people, all they do is to make laws so complicated as to turn the law into an ass. No other profession, known to man calls its products “an ass.”
Greed and N65 ATM levy
The Financial Punch of Monday 8th September, 2014, carried a story titled “12 banks earn N1.4tn in six months”; the report explained that the published trading results showed that 12 banks made a combined after tax profit of N223bn between January and June 2014.
