WHEN then Head of State Gen Yakubu Gowon, rtd proclaimed the “No Victor No Vanquished”, slogan at the end of the Nigerian Civil War on January 15, 1970, the general assumption was that the Biafran question would be resolved with the post- war programmes that were expected to come with that proclamation. Although the Igbos were obviously vanquished , the declaration created some level of confidence amid overwhelming doubts and despair.

The Secretary of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Shao Park, Ilorin, in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State,Mallam Salman Rafiu, was unaware of what fate had for him as he went to withdraw money from the Automated Teller Machine, ATM, in one of the new generation banks(names wiitheld) along Taiwo, Ilorin penultimate Wednesday morning.

Dr. Evelyn Omawumi Urhobo is the Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Smart Development Foundation (MSDF), a Non-Governmental Organisation with headquarters in Warri. In this chat with Vanguard, Dr Urhobo speaks on what she sees as conspiracy of silence against the women of the Niger-Delta, noting that if the women are empowered as most of them […]

Hundreds of lives, including those of security men and vandals, have been lost to pipelines explosions at Arepo, a community in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The community is host to several oil pipelines belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC .

For residents of Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of the South Eastern part of the country, these are not the best of times. Reason: The rising occurrence of collapsed buildings in the city has unsettled many residents who are not sure of which building will cave in the next time.

This vexatious phrase was first brought to my knowledge in London. I had gone there combining job and pleasure when a friend from the South West of Nigeria, asked me with scorn and fun what the hell is gone wrong with our dear country Nigeria, why a First Lady cannot speak the expected good English(whatever that meant).

IF they were not used to being killed and seeing people murdered, the fear of death would have been the least thing in their teenage minds when they set out for school from their various homes on April 17, 2011.

The fragile peace in Jos, the Plateau State capital was on Tuesday shattered when two suicide bombers detonated bombs in two separate vehicles at the central business district of Jos known by residents as Terminus.

Fujimori, Peruvian President of Japanese descent, not only was removed from office, but ended up being prosecuted for, among other crimes, not implementing the nation’s annual budget.

AS the hand of the clock ticks towards the 2015 general elections, Emeka Mamah and Francis Igata, write on Federal Government’s avowed commitment to complete the rehabilitation of all Federal roads in the country, especially those in the South-East before 2015.

Kidnapping those children in that circumstance is bad enough. Unfortunately in our country, we don’t appear to care about human life. It is a pathetic situation that more than 200 students sleeping in their dormitory were abducted by terrorists. But what is worse is that after that our leaders began to talk rubbish. Some were even talking as if it did not happen and no body made any move to do anything until the Americans and others came.

Perhaps it is not an idle talk again to engage in wishful thinking or indulge in gymnastic pastimes as to whether or not the state of the nation is imminently close to explosion or that the current state of the nation is unsustainable.

Mrs. Yinka Ogunde is one personality worthy of emulation. An enviable career-woman who prefers keeping a low profile due to her ever busy schedule, she is the pioneer of EDUMARK Consult, an educational guild for students and parent alike. She is also the CEO of Goals & Ideas, an integrated marketing communications agency.

The insecurity challenges in Nigeria have recently assumed an alarming dimension. Apart from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States which Boko Haram insurgents have turned into a war theatre, other parts of the country have witnessed one form of insecurity or the other. This recurring blood spilling has become a major source of concern to Nigerian medical doctors

EVEN the meeting of world leaders in France at the end of the Second World War WW2, specifically on December 10, 1948, did not have the large number of world leaders in attendance