On the Udi highlands of Enugu state, the Nsude pyramids once stood as a testimony to Black Africa’s level of cultural enlightenment. Built with hardened red mud and clay, the structures lasted centuries until the 1930s when degradation followed years of negligence, so much that today only their faint outlines can be traced. A report on the monuments published in Wikipedia describes them as “one of the unique structures of Igbo culture”.

Asaba was the host of the 46th meeting of the National Council of Information from October 26th to October, 2016. As usual, the Minister of Information, the States Commissioners for Information, managers of government owned media houses and other key stakeholders like the NUJ and RATTAU were all present. It was a three day session of brain storming of charting a new way forward for information in the country.

The $13.92 billion repatriation allegation Senator Dino Melaye, (APC Kogi) brought against MTN Nigeria, September, has yet to stop attracting reactions from the Nigerian public.

IT was on a cool evening that I met with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at his Abuja residence, last weekend. It was certainly not my first meeting with him, as I knew Odigie-Oyegun since 1991 when he emerged as the first civilian governor of Edo state.

The journey to Africa’s infrastructure sufficiency is certainly not a day’s job. But if the insights, suggestions, and opportunities flowing from the summit are taken advantage of, Africa, especially Nigeria, may well be on its way to acquiring infrastructural capacity needed to stimulate the much-needed socio-economic transformation

Two weeks ago, the Nigerian mass media showed they are still game for any swindler who wants to manipulate them. That was when the British National Crime Agency (NCA) released a report of its internal investigation of allegations leveled against some members of the team that had investigated and prosecuted Chief James OnanefeIbori and his associates in the long-running London trial.

We have observed that the results that were issued by the presiding officers from the various units across the state were not the same as those announced at the collation centre

In the lottery of life, there are some vital attributes among the humans which only the Almighty can bestow. Some of the attributes include Life, Beauty and Intellect. Over the years, scientists have tried with limited success to manipulate these attributes in man, but would always stop at the point God takes over. Personages, through the ages, have never ceased to appreciate the transcendence of life, beauty and intellect in the affairs of men.

“After the rain comes sunshine”, so the saying goes. Samuel Rutherford ( 1600 – 29 March 1661), a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly) put even in better perspective: “After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies”.

Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Road safety Corps, FRSC, was the guest of Vanguard editors at the company’s corporate headquarters, Apapa recently. He spoke on the operations and activities of the Corps under his supervision in the last two years. In the cause of the interaction he shed light on the proposed speed limiter which the Corps said would be in use from October 1, 2016.