Professor Sylvester Monye, in line with the guidelines of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, resigned, last week, as Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Performance Monitoring and Evaluation to enable him contest the 2015 gubernatorial election in Delta State.

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North Nduese Essien, former Lands and Housing Minister, former Chairman of South-South Parliamentary Caucus in the National Assembly and a delegate to the last National Conference was last week honoured by the Eket-speaking people of Akwa Ibom State to mark his 35 years active service to the community and Nigeria. […]

On the 5th of May 2014, Executive Director and Founder of the Hope for Niger Delta Campaign (HNDC) and Environmental Activist, Comrade Sunny Ofehe and four other Dutch nationals, Erhard Leffers, Jandries Groenendijk, Miss Marianne Vos and Femi Soewu were kidnapped in the creeks of the Niger Delta, Bayelsa state to be precise when they visited the Idodo River community to do a documentary film on a hospital project in the community. One person was shot dead during the kidnap operation.

PRINCE Peter Adeyemi, the General Secretary of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Other Institutions, NASU, and a former Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Sunday Vanguard, speaks on politics in labour government, leadership, challenges and prospects.

Chief Ameh Ebute, a lawyer and politician in the Peoples Democratic Party, was the Senate President in the Third Republic and has continued to play active in the current dispensation. He is the Chairman of the National Open University of Nigeria and a major stakeholder in national and Benue State politics.

In this interview, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State bares his mind on why the PDP governors endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for 2015 ahead of the December 6 National Convention of the party, the achievements of the PDP-led Federal Government, his state, his massive support for Jonathan, and his next political move, that is, his senatorial ambition, among other issues. Akpabio spoke after the PDP performance tour team, anchored by the Chief Olisa Metuh-led National Publicity Secretariat department of the PDP, visited his state.

Mr. Babatunde Fowler, Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Inland Revenue Service and Executive Chairman, Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue, explains why the state is the model in tax administration and development in the country at a time when there are fears that the dwindling revenue from crude oil sales may get worse

In this interview, Australian negotiator, who has been working closely with the leadership of the Boko Haram sect, pleads with the group to seize the window provided by the death of Shekau to end the destructive cycle of insurgency in parts of Nigeria, free captured Chubok girls and return to normal life.

September 29, will be exactly one year Mcphilips Nwachukwu, former Arts Editor of Vanguard died after a protracted illness. His widow, Tina, has decided to immortalise her late husband, whom she describes as her closest friend, brother and husband by organizing a memorial lecture in his honour.

The renowned Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Dr Anthony Olatokunbo Marinho, has conducted over 3000 C-sections. He is the author of over two dozen works of literature and the founder of Educare Trust, which has provided IT training to more than 6000 Nigerian youths. He dragged his first breath of air on January 8, 1949, and have continued a family tradition of service to humanity. In homage to his late wife, he also drives the Lola Marinho Breast Cancer Foundation. Vanguard Spark is proud to present this social crusader as our Sage of the Month (September Edition). In this interview with Amatesiro Dore, Dr Marinho personified wisdom and also provided very important articles on “The Future of Medical Practice in Nigeria”, “The Fear of Ebola”, “Time to Retire”, and “A Spark for the Rookie of the Month”.