By Ngozi Flo Nwakezie AS expected, the dissolution of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Umaru Yar’Adua few months ago generated  considerable interest within the polity. This is because   many people and diverse interests are keen in making input regarding who represents them in the NDDC Governing Board. Unlike […]

By Edmond Enaibe WITH the Monday July 13, 2009 release of MEND leader Henry Okah, the amnesty jet can be said to be in full flight. Just hours before the declaration of amnesty for all militants by President Umaru Yar’Adua, the Ijaw Elders and Leaders Forum made a one page advertisement on page 49 of […]

By Noble Nwabueze IN its resolve to open up the rural areas of the state and quicken the pace of its industrial development, the Imo State Government under the leadership of Chief Ikedi Ohakim, is accessing N18.5 billion bond from the nation’s capital market as the first phase of the N40 billion medium term note […]

By EJIRO IDAMA NOTHING has exposed the soft under belly and incompetence of the federal authorities in tackling the Niger Delta crisis than the failed efforts to use the military machine to crush militant activities in the region. In two years, since Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, came into office, promising peace and security, nothing on the […]

By SUNNY ESENIUSE IKHIOVA IT is said that of all the resources available in Nigeria, the one that is most plentiful is manpower. You find our professionals in all parts of the world, our doctors and medical personnel form a significant percentage of medical doctors in South Africa, America and even in Europe holding their […]

By UDO IBUOT IT is hardly surprising that the Akwa Ibom Peoples Front (AKPF), as a socio-cultural group, has continued to come under undeserved attacks and criticisms by people who do not seem to understand objectives of the group. While some people accuse the organisation of being a secret cult, others say that its influence […]

By CHIDIEBE JEREMIAH THE media – both print and electronic – have been awash with  stories  of Mr. President’s amnesty to the Niger-Delta militants. A good number of people have praised President Yar’Adua for what they called a laudable initiative. This set of individuals will quickly tell whoever cares to listen that what the government […]

By SMART EGBULE I WANT to salute your courage for publishing the communique which I recognize as the “Home Truth”, at the Chapperton Accord. Incontrovertible facts of apartheid syndrome have glaringly been the bitter pill prevalent and being force-fed on South-South people whether at home or in government service away from home. Is it not […]

By Dozie Iweka DAME Comfort Obi is one journalist that I admire and was therefore most disillusioned by her opinion on the above subject in Vanguard Oped page. By her own admission, she has a lot of respect and admiration for Her Excellency Dame Virgy Etiaba, the esteemed Deputy Governor of Anambra State. This is […]

By Comfort Obi I HAD willed myself not to write on this topic because I have a lot of respect for Her Excellency, Dame Virgy Etiaba, the Deputy Governor of Anambra State. Like me, she is of the Anglican Communion. And more, she is my sister-Knight. I have, therefore, unlike me, had some restrictions. I […]

By  Benji I. Duru THE viewpoints of one Mr. Amaechi Nwokenife on the recent resolution of the APGA leadership crises by INEC in favour of Chief Chekwas Okorie as National Chairman of APGA and published in the Vanguard Newspaper of June 3, 2009 at Page 19 definitely is designed by the author to attract quality […]

By Emejulu Okpala-Ukwu LESS than a year to the gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the stage is set as aspirants jostling to succeed Peter Obi beat drums of war. Politics in Anambra State has always been volatile because there are many gladiators on opposing camp or the same camp who are not ready to shift […]

By Sam Hart ANY Abian with genuine love for the state at heart will agree that the security situation in Abia State has reached a stage where it would no longer be enough to sit back and wish that the spate of kidnapping and armed robbery in the state will go away on its own. […]

There is indeed a big crisis in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. There is no denying that fact but the crisis has to be situated in the context of each and every part of the Niger Delta and in different and peculiar ways. The crisis does not affect all the part in the same way.

By Uchenna Aja-Ani I READ in a national newspaper the interview of Chief Victor Umeh, the Awka Chairman of APGA, regarding the above. I was shocked to learn from Umeh that the Etiabas who we all think to be a very lovely and close family are in fact according to Umeh, very bad people.  They […]