The putrid stench of decomposition was the ugly reminder of lives that once bubbled.

NIGERIA is the seventh most populous country in the world, 39th top economy but unfortunately occupies the 70th spot on the global electricity production chart, according the CIA World Fact book.

The Minister of State, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Darius Dickson Ishaku, is optimistic that the 2014 deadline for the completion of the East West Road project would be met.

It is now very obvious, even to those who had initial doubts about the veracity of the claim by scientists of rising global temperatures, that there is a change in the global climate pattern. Before now, the phrase ‘global warming’ seemed more like a joke; however, with the way climate has changed in recent times, the reality of what had hitherto been considered a fiction, and thought of as only perhaps real in what some termed “the delusional world of the scientist”, is now glaring for all to see.

They were called terrorists, insurgents, religious extremists, political killers, Boko Haram and finally ghosts. They were told that amnesty is for humans and not ghosts. But suddenly, here comes a package for ghosts. Saturday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU in this special piece chronicles the genesis, the politics and latest amnesty offer to Boko Haram Islamic sect.

Recently, President Goodluck Jonathan succumbed to the pressures to grant presidential amnesty to members of Boko Haram sect.

In the first part of this report, JONAH NWOKPOKU noted that not only did the train which moved from Iddo at noon develop faults at Ijoko and Ibadan, but it didn’t wait up to 10 minutes at Jebba although 85 per cent of the passengers were still on the ground.

Mid March 2013, over 2,000 Nigerians who have accepted their fate and changed their nationality in obedience to the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun were attacked and ejected, causing them to return to Nigeria as refugees.

After prolonged prevarication on the issue of granting amnesty to members of the Jama’atul Ahlus Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, the move by the Presidency, last week, setting up a committee to explore the possibility of redeeming the security situation in the northern part of the country is being received with mixed feelings. This report presents how members of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, extracted the goodwill from President Goodluck Jonathan.

One of the most important foundations of any civilisation is history. If we do not know our own history, who we are, who and what our forefathers were and where we came from, then we are truly lost. In the film production of J. R. Tolkien’s famous book entitled, ‘’Lord Of The Rings’’, one of the most compelling yet tragic lines reads as follows: ‘’Thousands of years passed by….history became legend and legend became myth’’. Few words are as profound as this and the import of those words resonate nothing but the deepest wisdom.

Elder Enebedum Ekedife is a native of Nobi,Anambra State, some three hundred kilometres from Calabar, Cross River State capital. For three years, he was afflicted with some problem in both eyes. In mid- 2012, he went completely blind. If he needed to eat, someone had to be on hand to help him keep the food close to avoid spilling.

Mrs. Florence Akhigbe was speechless when the news of her husband’s sudden death was broken to her; initially she discarded the news owing to the fact that the hubby, Inspector Innocent Akhigbe, left home hale and hearty on that fateful Wednesday. However, when sympathisers began to throng her apartment, it dawned on her that her hearthrob of many years had gone to the great beyond in the course of discharging his duties as an official of the Anti-Vandal Squad of theNigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC.

Before the advent of social media, the likes of facebook, tweeter, linkedin, badoo among others, sending letters, parcels, documents were done through NIPOST . However, in the past 10 years, with the advent of internet and social media platforms, has the use of NIPOST service increase or declined? Here are what Nigerians say:

To an average Nigerian, NIPOST is only saddled with the responsibility of postal services and nothing more.

By Dayo Johnson (ONDO) NIPOST office in Akure, the Ondo state capital is a ghost of its former self following the advent of electronic mail and social media through which Nigerians send mail instantly with little or no cost. Except the Courier services, and buying of stamps by few people, no transaction takes place in […]