MOTORISTS and commuters plying the Lagos – Badagry and Oshodi/Apapa expressways, have on several occasions, been subjected to untold hardship occasioned by perennial traffic gridlock that has become a recurring decimal along the ever-busy road.

THE Lagos State commissioner for Transportation, Mr. KayodeOpeifa, said he had nothing more to say about the menace of tanker drivers along the Apapa -Oshodi expressway.

THERE are two traditional African sayings that “a man that lives near the river will not use spit to wash his hands” and “a man cannot be in the river and be looking for fish to eat”. Both mean the same thing, which is that one cannot be suffering in the midst of plenty.

In their resolve to restore the economic and political hegemony of the zone, the South West leaders, few days ago organized a legislative summit.

Over 2000 Rivers and non-Rivers indigenes have so far benefited from the Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi Special Overseas scholarship programme, a scheme designed to boost human capital development in Rivers State and the country.

By Moses Nosike President General, Aka Ikenga,  a group of Igbo professionals, Consultant Dental Surgeon/MD, Belmont Dental Clinic; Chairman, Faculty of General Dental Practice and National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Dr. Sylvan O. Ebigwei, asks South-Easterners, in the face of Boko Haram killings,  start developing their homes, villages and communities for employment opportunities and […]

DELTA STATE governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan was recently at the Pan African University to deliver a lecture. Following the lecture the Governor spoke to newsmen on some topical national issues including the clamour for a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, contentions over derivation among other issues.

IN what appears like a ritual for virtually every government in Nigeria, the Federal Government has once again, constituted a panel to make recommendations for a better Police Force. This move has once again raised this pertinent question: Does Nigeria need another police reform committee? CHARLES KUMOLU writes.

MRS. Vero Paul lived in a dilapidated building near the canal that links Amukoko and Sari-Iganmu, two slummy neighbourhoods in Lagos. She had earnestly prayed to raise enough funds to enable the family move out of the flood-prone ghetto, but her efforts yielded little or no dividend.

On Tuesday, March 6, we published the first part of our visit to Koluama communities, which we said would be continued. We apologize for not continuing with the concluding part on Wednesday, March 7. The report ends today, March 8, with our findings at Temazau, Kaleweiama , Koluama I and other communities in Koluama clan, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Bayelsa state.

WHEN Vanguard visited Koluama I, Koluama 2, Temazau, Ebidouama and other communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, which were affected by the January 16, 2012 explosion of a gas rig, K.S Endeavour (Panama), near the North Apoi platform/field, west of the Funiwa field, on Wednesday, February 22, it was observed that neither the Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, operator of the rig nor the Federal Government, had undoubtedly evaluated the environmental, health and economic implications of the disaster on the people.

ACCORDING to official figures, the leading oil producing state, Rivers, received N1,053 billion between 1999 and 2008 in federal allocations. By contrast the North-eastern states of Yobe and Borno, where the Boko Haram sect was created, received N175bn and N213bn respectively. Broken down on a per capita basis, the contrast is even starker. In 2008 the 18.97m people who lived in the six states in the north-east received on average N1,156 per person.

It was like any other Sunday in the Plateau State capital in the recent past. Unknown to many, however, what appeared to be a serene day with bright morning sun emerging from the clouds was to be blighted by a blast which opened another chapter in the chronicle of crises and the search for peace in Jos.

Dr. Jummai Umar-Ajijola worked with the United Nations (UN), Actionaid and Microsoft. But today, she says she has found fulfillment, above all else, as a multi level marketer of Forever Living Products. As a guest speaker at the Forever Living Products Success Showcase, held recently in Abuja, Dr. Umar-Ajijola said that as an FLP network marketer, she has been freed from financial bondage.

The excitement that greeted the second coming of Ibrahim Lamorde at the helms of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, about seven months ago– his first coming was after the infamous withdrawal of the revered Nuhu Ribadu – has all but fizzled out.