You don’t just expect people to be roaming the streets with hunger and you expect crime rates to be low. You do not expect them to be jobless and you expect to have peace

We have achieved through our African theme dolls, more cultural awareness, national pride, unity amongst ethnic divides and school’s upliftment

Dr Eleanor Nwadinobi is a physician, gender and human rights expert and President of Widows Development Organisation, WiDO. She holds the European Union Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation from Venice, Italy and she sits on the Board of several international and national organisations.

Former Governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa is sad over the state of the nation, lamenting that there is nothing in place to protect the weak and the vulnerable. He also added that there is no reason to expect peaceful change during President Buhari’s second term because “killings, stolen money and power are the deciding factors in politics and elections.

But what they are doing now is politics. They want to appease the Yoruba of the South-West, the family of Abiola, friends and so on by declaring this day a public holiday

In lupus, the immune system, which is designed to protect against infection, creates antibodies that attack the body’s own tissues and organs like the kidneys, brain, heart, lungs, blood, skin, and joints.

The 2019 general elections have since become history, but reactions trailing the exercise appear unending. In this no-holds-barred interview with our man, Chidi Nkwopara, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Professor Francis Ezeonu, recounts his experience and the way forward.

Imo REC loud on how to make elections free and fair Says human involvement must be reduced for electronic machinery Regrets effects of poverty, role of military; recalls day police almost shot him on duty The 2019 general elections have since become history, but reactions trailing the exercise appear unending. In this no holds barred […]

Col. Dickson Ahaba Itodo (retd), is a retired colonel and a former Chief Pharmacist of the Nigerian Army who became a gospel preacher because according to him, Jesus Christ physically appeared to him and asked him to go round the world and preach the gospel. The Presiding Bishop of Liberty Square Ministries and Director of Liberty Square Academy in this chat with Vanguard, speaks on the Nigeria he grew up in, the mess the country has found itself in, the way forward, and declares that the Nigerian Government is capable of solving the security problem.

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, an engineer, has a robust background as the Chairman of Makon Group of Companies. Barely two weeks in office, Makinde, speaks about the place of accountability and probity in the running of the ‘Pacesetter State’ and the core areas his administration is focusing on. 

I think for anybody to accuse the Buhari government of being lethargic in dealing with herders-farmers conflict is quite unfair because we have been very decisive

The challenges peculiar to the tech sector are shortage of early stage investors in tech start-ups in Nigeria. Most tech start-ups struggle to get funding at the early stage which is in most case not available, leaving them to struggle on their own until a foreign investor comes into the picture.

First Officer Binta Mohammed Lawal is a commercial pilot in the General Aviation sector of the Nigerian Aviation industry. Trained in the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, Binta obtained her Private pilot’s licence and Commercial pilot’s licence and says she is very proud of the college because as far she is concerned, it is one of the best aviation training schools in the world having produced about 80 per cent of Nigerian pilots flying in the Nigerian airspace. In this chat with Vanguard, Binta speaks on the many ills of Nigeria, saying that the war against insurgency can never be won as long as the manpower is there and how we can get Nigeria of our dreams.

An unwavering commitment to empowering lives and giving wings to aspirations has continued to drive the interventions of the Sahara Foundation which serves as the vehicle for Sahara Group’s Corporate Responsibility activities across the energy conglomerate’s locations in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

We cannot also allow the Fulani of the whole world to hide under the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and Transhumance to indiscriminately graze by use of force across international borders in
West Africa