West Africa’s healthcare investment momentum builds as WHX returns to Nigeria
Nigeria’s healthcare sector is undergoing rapid transformation, with forecasts predicting a 7.1% expansion and an anticipated market value of US$161.7 million by 2027. This growth is fuelled by a US$1.2 billion Federal Ministry investment in infrastructure and workforce, major oncology and diagnostic expansions by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, and increased imports under the African Continental Free Trade Area […]
NGF stalemate: It’s all about interest, 2015
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.
NGF is aberration, counter productive to Nigerian people – Akhaine
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.
Lekki Port: Plugging capacity gap in Nigerian ports, revolutionalising the economy
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
Vanguard’s Publisher decries child abuse
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.
Women are forced to respect tradition at their detriment – Odumakin
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.
Domestic violence threatens social, family stability
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.
Domestic Violence: It’s assuming epidemic proportions – Effah-Chukwuma
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.
Domestic Violence: Always blaming it on devil – Victims cry out
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.
PDP’s move to enforce discipline creates ripples
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.
From Japan, a developpment paradigm for Nigeria, others
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.
