Flood: 29 states, FCT, 107 LGAs, 631 communities at risk this month — FG
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NiHSA, predicted yesterday, that 29 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as well as 107 local government areas and 631 communities were at risk of flooding between now and mid September.
Oyegun at 70: I am sad at where the nation is
First civilian governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, recently, clocked 70. In an interview, Oyegun expressed his disappointment over the way the country is being run.
Orgy of violence: Deadly bolts from Boko Haram
By Adekunle Adekoya VERY few Nigerians, except those who were planning it, contemplated that the nation would have to grapple with another orgy of violence, so soon after the mayhem that rocked Plateau and Bauchi States as year 2008 ended. Indeed, the commissions of enquiry unravelling the circumstances behind the Jos mayhem is yet to […]
South-East under siege : Robbers, kidnappers on the rampage
They forced my driver out of the car, pushed him down and used the butt of their gun and hit him at his waist. He slumped. Then they asked him to get up again and open the booth and the car. They removed my brief case and my suitcase containing my soutane and personal effects. They also removed the suitcase that carries my vestments and mitre for celebrating Holy Mass.
There can never be any agreement between ASUU and govt — Adetokunbo Kayode, Labour minister
Labour minister, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, says the autonomous status of the nation’s universities has robbed the academic staff of the opportunity to negotiate with the Federal Government on the issue of salary and other matters that triggered on-going strike by the academic staff. In essence, the minister explains there is no subsisting agreement on payrise […]
Kidnapping crippling south-east economy —Ebigwei, Aka Ikenga president
Dr. Sylvan O. Ebigwei, renowned dentist, is president, Aka Ikenga, the association of Igbo professionals, formed 21 years ago to think, plan, reason on issues confronting the Igbo wherever they may be. Aka Ikenga is an aggregation of Igbo in the core south-east, Rivers and Delta states as well as Igbo in diaspora. It liaises […]
We had two groups in Obasanjo’s govt, PDP — Fani-Kayode
*Says Osun people will decide his guber bid Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was Minister of Aviation during the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He recently paid a visit to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, for consultations over his ambition to contest the governorship election in Osun State in 2011. He fielded questions from […]
Count your blessings
Too many people murmur and complain about what they are going through but fail to see what God has done for them. Before their eyes are their perceived desires that has not come to pass. Their situation as they see it has become the yardstick with which they measure what God can do or cannot do.
Turkey: Where the West and the East melt *With critical lesson for Nigeria
If you don’t know, or may want to confirm what you already know, Turkey is one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions in modern times. Besides its historical past that was rich in diversity of civilisations, modern Turkey magnificently stands out as the melting point between the Western and Eastern cultures that appear to be […]
‘C.C. Onoh was an unusual landlord’
*As ex-Anambra gov is buried By Tony Edike THE demise of the former civilian governor of old Anambra State, Chief Christian Chukwuma Onoh, was, indeed, a great loss to many, but to his tenants who occupy his massive estates scattered across the country, his exit was more painful and it is feared that they may […]
The story of Ateke Tom..and his ‘five-point agenda for peace’
By George Onah Port Harcourt- About three years ago, precisely Saturday, July 8, 2006, Sunday   Vanguard met with the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante/Niger Delta Patriotic Forces Ateke Tom in his hideout in Okrika forest. It was shortly after he was attacked and chased out of Okrika community by the Joint Task Force, JTF, […]
