Mr Peter Amangbo is the Group Man-aging Director/CEO of Zenith Bank Plc, and he is Vanguard Newspaper’s Banker Of The Year, 2018.

IF there is a god of politics, then the opinionated divinity has been very generous to Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, the current Governor of Delta State, who in 2015, shattered a 25-year jinx to materialise as the fourth civilian governor of the oil-rich state.

By Morenike Taire AS a well cut blue diamond glitters from many facets, so does the Igba of Warri (Irojowo), Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor. Best known as an entrepreneur; founder, owner and CEO of the famous RitaLori Hotels in Lagos, Abuja and Delta, Lori Ogbebor’s business interests actually span shipping, agriculture and real estate. Unknown to […]

CLOSE associates describe Udom Emmanuel as the man who mounted the saddle of leadership with a mental inclination to do more for the people.

A REPORT on Monday that Ibrahim Kpotu Idris had been retired as the Inspector  General of Police, IGP, sent shock waves across the country, with the social media, as usual, in the lead in disseminating the announcement.  And even before the report was confirmed, speculations were rife as to who was going to be his successor. 

Restructuring the Federal System: There is a notable similarity between the re-organisation of constituent units in India and Nigeria.  Just as the number of constituent units of the Nigerian federation has increased from three at independence to the current 36, the number of states in India has increased from 12 at independence in 1947 to 29 in 2018 – the 29th was created in 2014.  Strikingly, the mix of cultural diversity management, promotion of national unity and enhancement of economic opportunities across the country’s territorial area that is emphasized as factors for state creation in India are broadly similar to those in Nigeria.

Nigeria was established as a federation in 1954 to accommodate the country’s ethno-linguistic differences: a central government sharing political power and national resources with three regional governments where each of the country’s three major ethno-linguistic groups (Hausa-Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba) was dominant.

Last year, Ifeanyi Ugokwe was arrested and locked up for weeks. His crime: He tried to take his own life. 

There is a trans-border movement of funds from Lagos, Agadez in Niger Republic and Libya for the purchase of arms for the prosecution of the ongoing killings in Zamfara State which have claimed no fewer than 3000 lives, Saturday Vanguard learned.

Stella was alarmed when she got an invitation from the police to report at its station at Jibowu. She couldn’t remember having done anything that would warrant the police inviting her.

In business, the role luck plays in success and personal achievement is rarely discussed. If luck is mentioned, it is done with slight condescension, and usually dismissed as a product of hard work, not deserving significant attention. While hard work is paramount— and I have written extensively about the importance of working hard— history and my own experiences show that there is often a large element of success that hard work alone cannot explain. It is simply not true that “you make your own luck.”

Nigeria’s Islamic State West Africa Province, a faction of Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State militant group, has intensified attacks against the army in the northeast of the country at an alarming rate, and the military appears to be struggling. Here are the principal reasons:

NIGERIA in the  context of global   economic slow down. In a global village, no country is immune from the universal economic downturn which is already underway. Allan Greenspan, who for more than ten years controlled the e world’s economy as the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank was on CNN in December to warn us that the global economy will shrink in 2019. In fact, the deceleration is already in progress in the USA – the world’s largest economy and China, the second. Europe and other Asian countries are already bracing up for what is expected to be a tough period. 

AT the beginning of every year, analysts daringly make predictions. Some never come to pass because they are over-optimistic, too pessimistic or simply offered as much in hope as in expectation. Of course, it’s difficult to predict the future with exactitude. Yet, this hasn’t stopped analysts from making new year predictions. I want to follow in that tradition by giving my take on how things might pan out for Nigeria this year.

THE year 2019 presents a lot of challenges to Nigerians ranging from the economy and growing insecurity to hunger, but it is politics, or the politics of the these challenges that will reign supreme. The first two months will be dominated by the February general elections while no matter who emerges winner, the next ten months will be expended on post-election politics including settling scores.