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, […]

IT has become the norm with the opening of every electoral season to see an avalanche of conflicting court orders from courts of coordinate jurisdictions. Rather than appeal, desperate politicians leave their natural judicial zones for faraway places to obtain ex-parte court injunctions to counter orders already given by courts of the same rank. Virtually […]

AFTER over two years of delay, the report of the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari last week Thursday, September 2, 2021, just a few weeks after Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. Expectedly, it shows that the Commission, established by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration […]

TOMORROW, Saturday, September 11, 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of easily the most devastating jihadist terror attack in human history. Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial aircraft full of passengers and dive-bombed the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, the Pentagon (headquarters of the United States Defence Department) outside […]

THE Tokyo 2020 Olympics held between July 21 and August 8, 2021, was quite remarkable in many respects. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Games saw athletes compete in empty arenas. Despite the difficulties the Games went on without disruptions. Humanity gallantly refused to yield ground to the pandemic.  As part of the Olympic family, […]