VICE Chairman of the Oporoza Federated Communities, Gbaramatu kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Apostle Clement Tonfawei in this interview with Vanguard spoke on the amnesty programme for militants by the Federal Government, the plight of displaced persons from the kingdom and why government should embark on massive development with construction of roads, bridges and provision of other basic social amenities for enduring peace in the region. Excerpts:

The much awaited re-run election into Ekiti North Senatorial District has come and gone , but the lessons learnt during the election would for long continue to reverberate in the minds of the people of the state, especially the stakeholders

Senator Ndoma Egba(SAN), Deputy Senate Leader, is one person that does not hide his feelings when it comes to national issues and those that concern the National Assembly.

By Jide Ajani Whereas none of them would be willing to admit, the serial disgraceful acts of the political class have never ceased to further muddy Nigeria’s polity.  The latest in this is the seemingly spineless decampment of some state governors to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. And instead of the joy of triumph, […]

Rather than reap a harvest of glory from the defection of three state governors to the Peoples democratic Party, PDP, members of the executive committee of the state chapters of the party are up in arms against the new Big Men in their fold, challenging the attempt at a take over.  This report catalogues the […]

Renewed efforts at Constitution are dredging up unsavoury reactions from unlikely circles. By Tordue Salem Abuja – THE Constitution is not a love letter that you continue to change to suit your mood”, the governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, stated last Wednesday as he appeared at the venue of the ongoing Constitution Review exercise […]

They started out as friends. But in the last couple of months, their relationship is anything but  rosy. If the truth be told, things have fallen apart between Emeka Etiaba and his friend the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi such that the centre can  no longer hold. But anyone with a political nose […]

WITH barely a year and half to the next general elections, controversy lingers in Ekiti State over the 2007 poll. The dust raised remains thick as a part of the state returns to polling centres tomorrow.

IF information from the designated arms collection centres in the six states of the Niger-Delta, where penitent militants were supposed to turn in their weapons, register, take the oath of renunciation and receive the presidential amnesty is anything to go by, then, the Federal Government has a problem in its hands, despite the official grandstanding to the contrary, as militants are still holding back the arms in their various camps.

….Says Henry Okah and I are enemies Exactly five days ago, the amnesty offered by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, to Niger Delta militants to drop their arms took off. Arms depots have been set up but response has been low. It is not known how many militants will actually surrender their arms at the end […]

Police as your f(r)iend PROLOGUE By Ikedi Isiguzo, Chairman, Editorial Board LITTLE Kaosarat Saliu was radiant in her new hairstyle. Last April 5 was a day to her third birthday – she never made the day. Policemen at a check point at Alapere, Lagos shot her to death. The little girl and her parents, who […]

By Jide Ajani WHereas the Boko Haram sect’s forceful evangelism was hinged on the banishment of western education, describing it as haram (an impurity), the alleged, manner in which the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in Police custody is also being insinuated as another act of impurity, an extra-judicial killing.  This report takes you […]

By Umar Yusuf Yola – IT is estimated that over one hundred thousand Nigerians    have lost their lives in ethno-religious crisis that have engulfed the country since the enthronement of democracy in 1979. The number of those injured triples the dead, while those displaced are put at millions. The Maitatsine crisis in Kano in […]

By Innocent Anaba THE directive by President Umaru Yar’Adua  to the national security adviser (NSA), last week, to carry out a full scale investigation into the killing of Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the religious sect, Boko Haram, has brought to the fore  the issue of extra-judicial killings in the country. Yar’Adua  had described the killing […]

MORE than two years down the line, the din that dogged 2007 general elections have not died down. Elections petitions arising from the controversial poll are still before tribunals. And there are strong indications that some of the cases may not be concluded before 2011.