Has the end of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come? This is one question the bigwigs of the party including President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan would not dare give vent to.

Several eminent Nigerians recently dissected the state of the nation and returned a grim verdict: Nigeria is on the brink of implosion and urgent actions are needed to halt the drift.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, survived an orchestrated campaign for his exit at the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC meeting last Tuesday. But nearly everyone agrees the prevailing peace is a temporary one

Respite is still a long way off for embattled Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, suspended by the PDP for anti-party activities, having won the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) chairmanship election, defeating pro-Jonathan candidate, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau.

The crisis in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has worsened with two governors at daggers-drawn over who is legitimate chairman of the forum now factionalised. Its relevance to the development of the country’s democratic dispensation is scrutinised in this interview granted to Saturday Vanguard by an accomplished scholar, Dr. Sylvester Odion Akhaine, Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, LASU.

NKIRUKA NNOROM writes that the Lekki Port, expected to be operational in 2016, will change the face of maritime business in Nigeria and improve economic fortune of the nation

Publisher of Vanguard newspaper, Mr. Sam Amuka, yesterday, reaffirmed his organisation’s commitment to fight child sex abuse in the country, even as Mrs. Kuburat Okoya, wife of industrialist, Razaq Okoya, said the trend had become a silent epidemic.

Two out of three women in Nigeria are subject to domestic violence in their homes. Domestic violence affects all social groups and can consist of physical, sexual and psychological abuse. In this interview, human right activist, Dr. Joe Odumakin explains that although men can also be affected by domestic violence, but in most cases women are always at the receiving end of domestic violence.

The wave of domestic violence in all its forms sweeping across our country is disturbing and a source of serious concern to many people. Personal safety within family framework can no longer be taken for granted. Most victims of domestic violence are left to suffer in vain, sometimes killed, seriously injured or permanently disabled.

Not many know that relationship or marriage is meant to bring out the better person in a spouse. But, the reverse is the case in our society today as many people especially married women suffer different kinds of domestic violence.

The popular saying that ‘it takes two to tangle’ is indeed true, but when the tangle becomes so unpleasant and repeatedly carried out on the weaker party; then it is time to end the music or to start another tune.

No fewer than two states governors and a minister have been suspended from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in what many believe is the ruling party’s baring of its fangs.

In this interview, the Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Ryuichi Shoji, speaks on the just concluded Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD), but, more importantly, the need and urgency of the African development and mobilizing international partnership, serving as a forum to strategise African development policies.

Osun State governor,Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday, recorded another first with the launch of the much awaited innovative e-learning device tagged Opon Imo, tablet of knowledge, amidst showers of praises for the ingenuity of the Aregbesola-led administration as the state government is expected to save N8.4 billion from the purchase of text books for senior secondary public schools in the state.

Across the nation’s states, there is a class of children who neither feel good nor happy. Their outlook paints a vivid picture of their state of helplessness.