Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s rise to the top of his country’s ruthless political world has been described as accidental — or simply a matter of luck.

Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari has tried three times to become president of Nigeria since the return to civilian rule in 1999 — and failed on each occasion.

AS you approach her, she averts eye contact, preferring to look at the ground; call her name, she nods her head without saying a word. She is equally not forthcoming when you try to engage her in a conversation. Yet this is a girl who was said to be outgoing and playful before her most recent traumatic experience.

All across the world, at least one journalist is killed every week for doing his or her job, while nine out of 10 killers often go unpunished. These are the words of Mr Ronald Kayanja, Communication Advisor, Regional Office of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Abuja. Kayanja made the observation in his […]

Tele-evangelist and Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre, KICC, Rev. Matthew Abiodun Ashimolowo, is not known for sensational prophecies. However, in this encounter with Sunday Vanguard in his hometown Ode-Omu, Osun State, during his New Year party for widows, the cleric, besides speaking on his younger days in the army barracks, 34-year-old marriage and […]