Photos: Meet soldiers who rescued Oyo kidnap victims
"These arrests completely disorganised the group, exerted overwhelming pressure on them and ultimately led to the unconditional release the pupils and teachers"
Nigerians take undue advantage – UK-based businessman
I think we should be honest when it comes to issues like this. Because Nigerians are benefiting from an act does not make it our right. The Nigerian Government should be blamed because I know that before the UK government took such an action, they would have informed the Nigerian Government on this issue.
All The President’s Women : The Tale of a Paradigm Shift
A new book, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Champion for Women, transforming Nigeria
with women in key positions, is set to be launched at a dinner this week. The work is a narrative about the paradigm shift engaged by President Goodluck Jonathan which seeks to ensure more participation of women in governance. The work also celebrates the successes recorded by the amazons in the Jonathan administration.
Syrian Rebels or Syrian Beasts?
In an article titled, ‘’On A False Premise – U.S. Looks To G8 Summit For Consensus Over Syria’’, American journalist Shawn Helton of the ’21st Century Wire’ wrote the following- “Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama, declared Thursday that the Syrian army had used sarin gas on its own people. These claims have been unsubstantiated. Just one month ago, Carla Del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria concluded that it was the rebel forces inside Syria that had in fact used chemical weapons.
PDP: House divided against itself?
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.
STATE OF THE NATION: We must halt descent into anarchy
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.
Tukur’s survival: Peace of the lipstick
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
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.
