This story examines former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest dance steps, a break-dance of twists and turns with one suspected objective: the actualisation of a self-serving agenda that is at variance with the projection of a united Nigeria. Yet, a more perceptive incumbent President would have pulled all the stops to successfully rein-in Obasanjo.

AS minister of information until few weeks ago, Mr. Labaran Maku did everything while in office to situate the achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan within the framework of the agenda of the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. It was in that context that Mr. Maku left office last October to seek the governorship ticket of the PDP in his native Nasarawa State. His bid for the job, however, ended on a sour note as Mr. Maku’s soon discovered that the oratory of the minister was of no use in the rough and rumble political jostling in his state.

Dr Doyin Okupe is the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan. Okupe, who was a guest at Vanguard corporate headquarters in Lagos, bares his mind on burning national issues including the decision by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to field General Muhammudu Buhari as its presidential standard bearer in 2015

The emergence of a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), appears to have changed the political calculations in the northern part of Nigeria.

Hon. Odein Ajumogobia, a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and one-time Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Rivers State, emerged as one of the challengers to a former Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike, in the race for the PDP ticket to contest the governorship of Rivers State in 2015. However when it became obvious that the Wike campaign juggernaut hadgenerated overwhelming influence and control of the selection process, Ajumogobia went to court to attempt to halt the process.

Women and children have always borne the brunt of violence often initiated by men.

Worthless! Very worthless pieces of paper are the things that would determine their fate! The presidential ambition of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari would be determined by those pieces of paper that Nigerians would drop in the ballot boxes across the country on February 14, 2015.

MARE festival in Idanre, ondo state which has become a yearly ‘pilgrimage’ witnessed an unprecedented traffic into Ondo state this year as both the high and low came from within and outside the state to celebrate God given cultural heritage.

In recent times in Nigeria, online shopping which was alien to us is fast becoming an alternative means of transaction. This nascent sector of the economy which is not only limited to supply of products, is also providing quality services that meet the needs and expectations of consumers.

Nigeria’s battle against the terror group, Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, was at best shambolic in the early part of 2012 and disgusting to say the least. It was as if there was no government in place and the mere fact that the terror group was beginning to dare more, and bomb more and kill more, became a serious matter of concern at international platforms.

Some Nigerians who called for the designation of the group as a Foreign Terror Organisation, FTO, rather than receive support from home, got a shocker. The Nigerian government, their government, forcefully moved against the action