Politics in Nigeria has been so bastardised that many people doubt the principles of actors. However, it appears that there are still a few good men in the art. One of such people is former acting Governor of Taraba State Alhaji Garba Umar. His recent actions have shown that there are individuals with strong values in politics.

THERE are certain things that serve as dream killers in life; you do not want near you. The news of the annulment of the election of Darius Ishaku, the Governor of Taraba State, is one of such.

ASK President Muhammadu Buhari what he thinks is the chief reason for the violence and insecurity in Nigeria, including the Boko Haram terrorism in the north-east, bloody wars between cattle herdsman and farmers in central Nigeria, erosion in the east and the environmental catastrophe in the costal regions and he will say, almost upon instinct that it’s the climate change.

On Thursday, December 10, it will be exactly 10 years since the Loyola Jesuit College community was struck by a tragedy of immense proportions. 60 of our students perished in Nigeria’s worst air crash. Some of the students were in year 7(JS1) while some others were in their last year of high school. Naturally, they were all happy to go home to celebrate Christmas. And their families were waiting to receive them with joy. But everything turned into a long, debilitating grief with the plane crash.

Why do we keep talking about unemployment when the potential, the need and the capacity and the solution are staring us all in the face?

On Saturday, Nov 7, when the tribunal sitting in Abuja nullified the Taraba governorship election on the grounds that the incumbent, Darius Ishaku, was not duly sponsored by any political party to run for the election as required by law, many people including myself were elated.

APPARENTLY miffed by the delay in the dispensation of justice and the corruption that it breeds, President Muhammadu Buhari recently made a case for far-reaching reforms in the country’s judicial system. Such reforms must include the reviews of laws, institutions, processes and procedures that hamper the speedy delivery of justice.

BIAFRA is real, and those who wave it away do so to the exposure of their wrong assessment of the situation, and to some extent their ignorance, self-deceit, and or self-denial.

I AGREE totally with the school of thought which says that the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, by its recent pronouncement of not being able to pay the minimum wage of N18, 000 to workers, has declared war against Nigerians [not only workers or labour unions] and as such Nigerians should arise in battle against these governors.

By Austin Okere The popular saying used to be that big fish would eat small fish. This has since changed significantly in the light of recent happenings in the global economy; UBER, until recently a relatively unknown company out of Silicon Valley in California employs 160,000 drivers today, and is adding an average of 20,000 […]

RIGHT OF REPLY WE read with dismay your report with the above headline written by one Ola Ajayi and published in the Vanguard newspaper on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. We are constrained to say that the report was false and an abuse of the power of the media. By publishing this tale from your reporter, […]

Mr Ayanbode Oje, a member of the Change Movement Nigeria, recently translated the 1999 Constitution to Yoruba language. He also decided to make the document available free to empower the perceived disenfranchised, oppressed and the voiceless due to their inability to read and understand English language.

A Rivers State judicial commission of inquiry found that N53 billion disappeared from the Rivers State Reserve Fund under former governor Rotimi Amaechi. Former Lagos governor and head of your campaign finance team Babatunde Fashola was accused of squandering N78 million of government money to upgrade his personal website. The EFCC has ignored these corruption allegations, and you have given both promotions: the Ministry of Transport to Mr. Amaechi, and the Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing to Mr. Fashola.

The Nigeria Governors Forum recently expressed worries that more states may not be able to pay workers salaries if the revenue of the country continues to be on the decline. The NGF, through its chairman, Governor Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara, said “the situation is no longer the same when we use to pay N18, 000 minimum wage when oil was 126 dollars; now oil price is 41 dollars.”

I woke up last Friday morning knowing I would be spending the better part of the day in bed, binge-watching my favorite TV shows and generally taking it easy so I could recover fast from the exhaustion of traversing the length and breadth of Bayelsa State as part of the campaign train for the PDP gubernatorial candidate and incumbent governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson.