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.

There is no gain saying the fact that the people of Kaduna state have been living in fear following the recent earth tremor that occurred in Qei and Jaba area of Jaba Local Government Area of the state. It also happened in in Kwoi and surrounding villages of Nok, Sanbah and Chori in Jama Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday 11th and Monday 12th September, 2016.

It was a Sunday morning, and most residents of Kwoi, Samba Daji, and the ancient, archeological community of Nok, in Jaba Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna State, were in Churches observing Sunday devotions. Then without warning, the ground started shaking, rattling and rocking the earth, many recalled to Saturday Vanguard.

The newfound collaboration between the Pension Commission, PenCom, and EFCC to enforce strict compliance with pension laws may have set the PenCom on a collision course with some forces which are bent on running PenCom down and stopping the agency on its stride, writes Johnbosco Agbakwuru.

Asaba as a state capital is strategically located to serve the economic hub of South/South states and the South/East states. Perhaps based on this economic imperative, the former Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan in May 7, 2008 made a ground breaking ceremony of laying the foundation of the Asaba airport. It was a colourful ceremony that had the former national chairman of PDP, Chief Vincent Ogualafor at the helm of affairs.

Lagos State, with an estimated population of about 23 million people is one of the richest states in Nigeria. It is one state that has the financial wherewithal to call the bluff of the Federal Government allocation and still survive. And when such a state then strikes oil in its domain and joins the league of oil producing states in the country, it could be said, as former head of state General Yakubu Gowon was reportedly quoted as saying, that the problem of Lagos state is not money but how to spend it.