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.

DONU Kogbara, the veteran 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 in the Vanguard newspaper of Sunday, June 4, 2009, under the title, “The Forgotten Four”, stirred my mind.

By Mike Anachuna “I shall fight crime with jobs”   – Governor  Obi’s 2003 Campaign promise. THE ‘multiple award winning’ Governor of Anambra State it must be admitted, ran one of the best campaigns in this country before the 2003 elections which he won fair and square.  He presented a social contract to the people.  He […]

By Ehi Akhigbemudu DESPITE the economic meltdown, the  dwindling  oil resources due to a lull in the global oil market and the ongoing genocide in the Niger Delta region, the comrade governor of Edo  State  Adams Oshiomhole still derives joy in junketing around Nigeria in chartered flights.

By Jerry Asiegbu THE need to clean up Lagos and make it worthy of its status as the seat of the government of the federation had long been stressed before Gen. Ibrahim Babanginda moved the nation’s capital to Abuja in 1992.