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.

MORE than meet the eyes: When Delta kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Oniarah, who was wanted then by both the police and army, stormed his country home, Kokori in Ethiope East Local Government Area on Tuesday, September 17, to issue his 60-day ultimatum to government, it is obvious that what transpired was a serious security breach.

Commercial banks operating in Imo State are threatening to close shop if government and it’s agents do no stop the harassment, which has engineered the face-off currently raging between them.

Africa provides an avalanche of examples, from the traditional, feudal, all-knowing, unquestionable emperors to military dictators and political overlords. They abound in the past and in the present. Africa has birthed the good, the bad and the ugly.

THERE was tension and unbelief across Ondo State on Thursday when the family of the late immediate past governor, Dr Olusegun Agagu, less than 24 hours after the plane conveying the corpse to a lying in state from Lagos to Akure crashed, killing 13 passengers, including a serving Commissioner, Mr Deji Falae, insisted that the burial plan should not be altered.

An average watcher of recent developments in the aviation sector in the country may be tempted to say Nigeria has never had it so good in terms of paying attention to upgrade in infrastructure and key navigational facilities at the nation’s airports since most of them were built decades ago.