THE question of who will fix our health system has become germane as it appears that those given the mandate to do so have abdicated their responsibility. President Muhammadu Buhari has not shown any interest in fixing our health system. After six years in office, he has continued to fly to foreign countries for medical […]

THE Federal Government and the health authorities should assiduously respond to the alarm raised by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, over the creeping distress threatening the industry as a result of the abuse of the Drug Revolving Fund, DRF, by tertiary medical institutions. President of the Society, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, at a briefing organised […]

ON August 10, 2021, Vanguard, once again, raised the alarm over the erosion cataclysm in Southern Nigeria. It narrated in graphic details how residents of Ndokwa East in Delta State go to the farm or market, only to return to meet their homes swept away by flood and gully erosion. The Onyah enclave, Utuoku, Okpai, […]

THE National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has a lot of work on its hands in efforts to minimise the armada of online advertisement and vending of substandard goods, especially food and medicines. The age of the Internet, Information and Computer Technology, ICT, and the Social Media opened a wide vista […]

WE expect a major round of legal fireworks to commence very soon over the ruling of a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt last Monday voiding the powers of the Federal Government to collect the Value Added Tax, VAT, in Rivers State and by extension other states. The ruling, therefore, transferred the VAT collection right […]

THE new pension system, the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, envisaged a robust, just and guaranteed pension life for Nigerian workers.  Vanguard joins well-meaning Nigerians and Labour leaders, both serving and retired, in supporting the new system. We believe that aside some of the out-layers, especially the disgruntled employers, including some state governments that have refused […]

HOPES were buoyed recently when the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, disclosed that the world’s foremost superpower is ready to assist in exposing those behind terrorism in Nigeria. At a meeting with journalists in Abuja on Monday, May 30, 2021, Leonard was asked whether the USA was willing to name terrorism sponsors in […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s one-day official visit to Imo State on Thursday, September 9, 2021, was more of a visit to the South East zone as a whole.  Outside election campaign times, it was his first visit to that part of the country as an elected president. He was received by a cross-section of the Igbo […]

With the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorism seemingly dying down in the North East, Nigerians have to brace up for the possibility that the North West may have increasingly become the new terror epicentre of the country. On July 19, 2021, an Alpha military jet was shot down by the militant groups which government calls “bandits” on […]

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been the chief driver of electoral reforms in Nigeria since former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Prof. Attahiru Jega as the Commission’s Chairman on June 8, 2010. Apart from conducting elections in which opposition parties regularly won, Jega pioneered the Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC, and Smart Card Reader, SCR, […]