In the past two months, driving through Apapa-Oshodi expressway, the gateway to the nation’s ports, has been a nightmare for road users, as it now takes about four hours between Sanya and Berger Cement Bus Stop.

A cross section of road users who spoke to Vanguard narrated their ordeals.

Oboh Agbonkhese IZOBO in my native Esan is what Yoruba call Ebo; Ibo, Aja; Ibibio, Uwa; Igbira, Isovo, and so on and so forth. It is that collection of edibles and usables that one particularly finds at cross-roads and busy spots, which the indigent, hungry, strays, ants, animals and ancestors feed from and make merry. […]

Before the November 2013 handover of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN to 10 successor companies, who emerged after a bidding process, the issue of vandals had been a threat to the quest for steady power supply. But the situation seems to have assumed an alarming dimension resulting in the current drop in power supply nationwide.

By Vera Samuel Anyagafu and Prisca Sam-Duru Nigeria, along with other African countries, is identified as one of South Africa’s core regional source markets, as it has been extensively involved in South Africa’s increasing revenue. In recalling the aforementioned therefore, one wonders why 80 per cent out of the 400,000 Nigerians resident in South Africa, […]

By Charles Kumolu and Azeez Sanusi EVER imagined celebrating a New yam festival in a traditional African Society without eating yam! That is very unlikely, as such a   festival without tubers of yams would be abnormal. This scenario is likely to play out in many homes this festive season, following the all time rise in […]