LAST week’s judgement of the Court of Appeal in Enugu which nullified the election of Senator Dr. Joy Emodi (Adadioranma) into the Senate came to many of us Anambrarians as a great surprise and a very unfortunate development.

THE world economy is one wide market; whatever economic catastrophe that affects the worlds biggest economy can reverberate in other countries. Modern means of communication such as internet, satellitetelevision, GSM, etc, has brought the world closer than ever in the history of man.

By Iyabo James THE  up coming election of Association of Nigeria Licensed customs Agents (ANLCA) is certain to be mired by controversy; intrigue and subversion. The grounds for this seeming scenario have since been watered long before now by those who  rigged themselves into the BOT and other strategic positions at the  national level. The […]

In the midst of our present chaos, the hopelessness in the land, the skepticisms and fear that pervades our national psyche, the next 365 days offer a chance that we join hands together and restore the trust that is much needed between our people and government.

There are not many journalists, Lagos-based that is, who will spurn an opportunity of a trip out of the metropolis even if it is all about being far from the ever maddening traffic. The duration does not have to be long. The important thing is just to get out to let off steam.

THE journey from the Kirikiri Canal offices of Vanguard Newspapers to my residence ought not to be more than a 20-minute drive on normal smooth and free road. But in Nigeria, there is hardly anything normal in our day-to-day activities as a people, anymore; and so, leaving Vanguard premises at 5.35pm, I had hoped that at the very worst I would make it home in an hour. But as it turned out, by 10.00 pm I was still locked up in the middle of a no-moving traffic.

IN the last few weeks or so, a self-styled social crusader has been raised to the level of a hero or do one say, a ‘living martyr’ by some sections of the media ostensibly working for a legal practitioner who enjoys media trial.

THE first thing that strikes you about Dr Stanley Macebuh was his affectations. His urbanity and sophistication could not be missed, and it came out of him effortlessly. I am not sure whether he cultivated it or it has always been part of his make-up. Whatever it was, the impression that he was a knowledgeable, a well-travelled and exposed man, self-assured would impress you the more when you engage him in conversation.

IN any true democratic society, the constitution is the supreme law of the land that must be obeyed by all authorities and persons. There has also not been any situation where a true democratic society allowed two presidents or heads of state to direct the affairs of a country at the same time.

As the people get more confused, ministers were busy dropping bombshell of lies in Abuja. The former Minister of Justice even turned the law upside down by saying that Mr. President can rule by proxy from any part of the world! Other members of the kitchen cabinet claimed they saw the President who was actually under intense care of King Faisal Hospital. Madam First Lady was said to be the ring leader in churning out the other side of the truth.