The Imperative Of Youth Involvement In Politics
By ‘Nonso Emecheta The definition of youth varies from one country to another. The United Nations defined a youth as a person between the ages of 15 and 24, while the African Youth Charter on the other hand, extends the…
Okowa Mourns Senator Patrick Osakwe
Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Wednesday commiserated with the family of Senator Patrick Osakwe, who died on Tuesday at the age of 73. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in a statement in…
Delta Senator Dies in London
The Senator who represented Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State from 1999 to 2007, Senator Patrick Enebeli Osakwe is dead. He died at the age of 73 in a London hospital on Tuesday night. Vanguard gathered that the late…
EFCC On Vendetta Against Chief Whip Of Nigerian Senate for Political Reasons – Says HURIWA
Leading civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writers Association Of NIGERIA (HURIWA) has while carpeting the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) latest round of what it described as “forum shopping and targeted political persecution of the most senior South…
Alleged Treason: Agba Jalingo Returns To Take Fresh Plea Before Justice Ojukwu, March 21
By Agba Jalingo Fact file: It’s on record that this is the only case in Nigeria since the country was amalgamated in 1914, that an open court granted leave for secret trial and a “masquerade”, masked from head-to-toes, appeared from…
IPC Demands Immediate Investigation of Attacks on Punch Newspapers Journalists in Abuja
Concerned about the recent attacks on two Abuja based journalists of Punch Newspapers, the International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos-Nigeria, has called for immediate investigation of the attacks. The journalists, Amarachi Orjiude and Solomon Odeniyi, were attacked at a separate incidents…
An Orphan Called Nigeria
By Prince Charles Dickson “The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you’re not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I’m not perfect….
BESDA: Oyo Inaugurates Environmental Safeguard Team for Out-of-School Children
The Oyo State Government has inaugurated Environmental and Social Safeguard teams in the State, with an aim to ensure that out-of-school children captured and re-enrolled in the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) programme are taught in child-friendly environments…
Raphael Ede, Enugu Serial Freelance Journalist and Purveyor Of Falsehoods
By Festus Odiekpe His name is Mr. Raphael Ede. He is a perpetual freelance journalist in Enugu state. He freelanced for The Sun newspaper for years in Enugu without being employed, because of unethical behavior and poor academic qualifications. When…
Muhammad Nami’s FIRS: A New Era Of Tax Efficiency
By Queen Onwughalu The innovations and reforms undertaken at Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) by the new tax master, Muhammad Nami, call for a closer look. Since the discovery of oil in Nigeria in 1956, the nation has continued to…
Auditor General Reveals How 107 Million Barrels of Crude Oil Got Missing
The audit report of the Auditor General for the Federation has revealed that the defunct Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) failed to account for about 107,239,436.00 barrels of crude oil lifted for domestic consumption in 2019. The disclosure formed part…
