It is not uncommon these days to find beautiful young girls with good careers and manners, who ought to have settled down, still believing God for life partners.

The retired infantry officer Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh reported for duty as the new man in charge of the Presidential amnesty Programme few hours after his appointment by President Buhari. Boroh is expected to rebuild fast dwindling confidence in the effectiveness of the programme. Weeks into his appointment saw moves for the verification of thousands covered by the programme and resumption of scholarship payment.

THE demand for autonomous communities will never stop, especially in Imo State, the more they create the more attractive it becomes for the agitators to ask for more and we are gradually atomicized into such tiny pieces of people, that do not qualify for an autonomous community properly so called.

THERE have been consistent efforts by reactionary forces within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to portray Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as disobedient and treacherous party men since June 9, 2015 when the election of presiding officers of the National Assembly. But nothing can be farther from the truth.

THE term Judas can be found in many languages as a synonym for betrayer, and Judas has become the classic exemplar of the back-stabber, in art and literature.

This is the concluding part of this article. The second part was published in the penultimate Wednesday’s edition of Vanguard By Obi Nwakanma THERE is Dr. Alvan Azinna Ikoku III, who studied Medicine, and is an MD from the Harvard Medical School and also has a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Columbia. He is currently […]

GOVERNOR Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State is a leader who defies the familiar categorisations and typologies of Nigerian public service. Since his swearing in on February 14, 2012, he has always been at home with the values and sensibilities of the creeks and Bayelsa’s rural communities. But he is also comfortable in the world of wonky policymaking and urbane governance. The governor is thus as close as it gets to the archetypal 21st century public servant. These attributes, in conjunction with his organic involvement in the Ijaw struggle, have earned him the adulatory name of the Countryman Governor.

RIGHT OF REPLY RECENTLY, Mallam Modibbo Kawu, a columnist with Vanguard Newspapers wrote an article entitled, “Bukola Saraki in Maiduguri: Tentative first steps for 2019 presidency”. For those of us who know the writer pretty well, that compilation of fictions, fantasy and alleged hearsays that his article represents is not unusual. What is strange is […]

OF late, I’ve kept wondering what would be happening in Delta today, if it was Olorogun O’tega Emerhor of the All Progressives Congress, APC, rather than Senator Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that was Governor of the state. Perhaps rather than Senator Okowa’s administration, we would have had a people-oriented and focused APC administration determined to prove itself to the electorate as a superior alternative to the PDP.

THE much awaited outcome of the investigations by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) on allegation of fraud against the Chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), Sir Mike Okiro by one Aaron Kasse was finally made public on Wednesday August 12. But contrary to the expectation of the blackmailers, the ICPC absolved Okiro of the allegations. Today, the elder statesman who has spent all his life diligently serving the nation is in the eye of the public, nevertheless for good reasons.

ON Sunday, August 2, it was reported that the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia state was razed down by unknown elements. It does appear the new mantra of the ruling-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is “If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence and blame it on your opponent.’’

Two weeks ago, I asked a question-Who Will Federate Nigeria? It was actually a rhetorical question which was prompted by recent happenings in the polity which exposed deficiencies in our current federal set up.

LET us play a little catch up. Cast our minds back to may, 1999. Olusegun Obasanjo has just been sworn in as president of a new democratic government, with the whole world hailing his coming.

FOR most Nigerian’s, 2015 began on a sour note, with little or nothing to cheer about. But for the hope for a better tomorrow, which has become the palliative of majority of the populace who bear the brunt of the disappointing run of successive governments; dying may have often times appeared to be a better option to living in the present uncertain state of the nation.

DEMOCRACY envisages Freedom of expression and the press. As a result, Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria states that “(1) Every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, every person shall be entitled to own, establish and operate any medium for the dissemination of information, ideas and opinions.”