WEST Africa is known to be one of the world’s major sources of resources such as gold, uranium, diamond, bauxite, coal, oil and gas, cocoa, among others. It is also a volatile region characterised by poor governance, weak state structures, poverty, war, stagnant economy, corruption and disease. For years, it has become a major transit […]

Those in the Monrovia camp believed that you cannot have an African country that will take charge of helping Africa to survive economically. They argued that there is nothing wrong in agreeing to have a more established power, which is the West, to be in charge of security of African countries, while the African countries are allowed to blossom economically.

The putrid stench of decomposition was the ugly reminder of lives that once bubbled.

NIGERIA is the seventh most populous country in the world, 39th top economy but unfortunately occupies the 70th spot on the global electricity production chart, according the CIA World Fact book.

The Minister of State, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Darius Dickson Ishaku, is optimistic that the 2014 deadline for the completion of the East West Road project would be met.

It is now very obvious, even to those who had initial doubts about the veracity of the claim by scientists of rising global temperatures, that there is a change in the global climate pattern. Before now, the phrase ‘global warming’ seemed more like a joke; however, with the way climate has changed in recent times, the reality of what had hitherto been considered a fiction, and thought of as only perhaps real in what some termed “the delusional world of the scientist”, is now glaring for all to see.

They were called terrorists, insurgents, religious extremists, political killers, Boko Haram and finally ghosts. They were told that amnesty is for humans and not ghosts. But suddenly, here comes a package for ghosts. Saturday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU in this special piece chronicles the genesis, the politics and latest amnesty offer to Boko Haram Islamic sect.

Recently, President Goodluck Jonathan succumbed to the pressures to grant presidential amnesty to members of Boko Haram sect.

In the first part of this report, JONAH NWOKPOKU noted that not only did the train which moved from Iddo at noon develop faults at Ijoko and Ibadan, but it didn’t wait up to 10 minutes at Jebba although 85 per cent of the passengers were still on the ground.

Mid March 2013, over 2,000 Nigerians who have accepted their fate and changed their nationality in obedience to the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun were attacked and ejected, causing them to return to Nigeria as refugees.