As 2015 draws very near, Nigeria is still not listed any where near the 10 countries that have made rapid progress to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which particularly include MDGI (eradicate extreme poverty) by providing gainful employment to a significant proportion of its population.

It is really not easy to work here especially, as a casual staff. Some of us that are here as casual staff are most often subjected to what could be called slavery. We are often treated like slaves. If not that, I don’t like staying idle, this is not the kind of place I had in mind working after spending some years in the polytechnic to get an OND certificate.

I graduated six years ago from one of the Nigerian universities, married with two children and an aged mother to cater for. After a long search for a job which was never available,I decided to enroll with one of the private contract firms,which fixed me up with a factory work where I receive N1300 for labour on daily basis.

THE decision of President Jonathan to set up a committee to work out modalities for a National Conference shows that he is not quite what his critic suppose he is.

THERE is a time for everything.
For Nigerians, it is time to talk. Ironically, many of those who espoused the position for years that the country could not progress without talking have been caught on the wrong foot – the political side of the talk.

The good, bad and ugly WARRI, a principal nucleus of petroleum-related business, located in the creeks and swamps of the Niger-Delta is a money-making city in Delta State, which prides itself as the ‘heart beat’ of the country.

Chief Sergeant Awuse is a top Rivers State politician, popularly called, “Political Bulldozer”. In this interview, he bares his mind on the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying those calling on President Goodluck Jonathan not to contest for another term are trouble-makers who want to stop Mr President from exercising his legitimate right.

Babatunde Moshood Fasanu is a senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN and a renown Public affairs analyst. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, bears his mind on Nigeria’s 53yrs of independence. He is however of the opinion that the Sovereign national conference is the major solution to Nigeria’s challenges.

The Committee has one central task of fashioning out the process of organizing a national conversation where all the ethnic nationalities that make up the polity of Nigeria will gather at a table and discuss their future in the marriage that was initiated some 99 years ago. Former colonial chief, Lord Frederick Lugard had in 1914 amalgamated the northern and southern protectorates to form the political entity called Nigeria.

Nigerians expressed their opinion about the country living up to the dreams of our founding fathers at the dawn of independence in 1960 and if there is need for celebration.