OPENING this discuss with the word “again” means that similar situation happened before in the lives of the great people of the Urhobo Nation of the Niger Delta – talking of derailing from the road they should have passed and finding themselves in a turbulent “political wilderness”. The last time it happened, they remained like flock without shepherd for almost 25 years while only the creator of mankind can say with sure precision how long it will take them [in the wilderness] this time around before coming out of the woods.

BUT didn’t an erudite professor, renowned scholar, iconic playwright and social critic, who publicly threatened to destroy his document, however way it was acquired, over the outcome of a distant periodic election, he did not even vote and for which his interest is at best marginal, brutally assault common sense, that the rest of us, should be embarrassed to share the same nation space with him?

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AGITATIONS for the scrapping of the National Youth Service Corps scheme appear to have been intensified with the recent deaths of some corpers in the course of participating in the scheme, which included a 26-year-old Ifedolapo Oladepo, a First Class Transport Management graduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, who died at the NYSC camp in Kano State.

He said that according to the Leadership Newspaper of 4th December, 2016 under the headline: “Foreigners Behind Southern Kaduna Massacre”, Governor Nasir El-Rufai stated that some of them (Killer Fulani) were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal, adding,

AMONG the six area councils of Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, Kwali Area council is emerging as the cynosure of all eyes going by the developmental strides being carried out by the Honourable Joseph Shazin administration.

The past week is unarguably one of the busiest and critical times in the life of the 8th Senate. It was a week the law making body significantly upped its game in its drive to achieve stated objectives contained in its Legislative Agenda, that is, to enact laws that would spur business growth, increase access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), attract investors and private sector funding for infrastructure and to reflate the nation’s ailing economy.

Not long ago, the peaceful, self-subsistence farming community of Ndi Okereke Abam, Arochukwu LGA, Abia State, was attacked by the now notorious, AK-47 rifle wielding, bow and arrow bearing marauders masquerading as Hausa/Fulani herdsmen. By the time they were through with the unarmed, government abandoned community, seven persons, all from Ndi Okereke Abam, were down, fatally injured. They are still recuperating in hospitals in the area.

When Bukola Saraki’s trial opened at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) earlier this year, we all thought we were watching the premature end of an outstanding political career. If anyone had predicted back then that one year after, Saraki would still be addressed as the Senate President, no one would have believed. As court after court dismissed his attempts to stop his trial at the tribunal, it looked certain that Saraki’s political days were numbered.

THE 16th edition of Vanguard Media Christian Fellowship end-of-year thanksgiving and prayer service will hold on Wednesday, December 14, 2016, at the corporate headquarters of the company in Apapa, Lagos.