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 […]

By Dominic Kidzu THIS is the story of South- Eastern State, the story of old Cross River State, too. But more importantly, it is the story of the new Cross River and Akwa Ibom states. Two states, one people, one destiny, bonded by geography, history, heritage and blood. And also united so deeply by parentage, […]

By Henry Ayanruoh AS I listened to news from different Nigeria television stations and read national newspapers of Nigerians expressing their concern about the Gbaramatu crisis amidst the mortar burst and whining bullets, it dawned on me that when pressed with the demands of inner truth men do not easily assume the task of opposing […]

By Patrick Naagbanton DONU KOGBARA, the veteran media writer and daughter of the late Chief Ignatus Vibel Kogbara, the prominent Ogoni elite, is a courageous woman. Courage can be displayed when one either is doing good or evil, but it’s always good to demonstrate courage for good, for the health of society. Reading Donu’s convulsion […]

IT was Remi Olayiwola, a colleague and friend for all seasons, who called me from Nigeria very early in the morning to inform me that Ladi Lawal, my friend of the NUJ, had gone down in silence. William Shakespeare did say that death, as a necessary end, will come when it will. And Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, the scientist and all-time great teacher, evangelist, prophet and general overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, added that death is death, regardless of the cause.

EARTH is a shopping arcade and all nations are its decorated shops. Recently, the government of Nigeria launched a campaign that aims at wiping out the wrong image that some people propagate about the country. However, the exercise has drawn criticisms from some people. I have been living in Nigeria for some years now and I feel that the branding exercise is a step in the right direction.