Opinion

On Tuesday, April 15th, 234 girls attending school in Chibok, Borno State in Nigeria's northeast were abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. This was reported barely 16 hours after deadly explosions at Nyanya bus stop in the nation's capital...

In March this year, the PDP campaign organization led by President Goodluck Jonathan went to Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge to continue the endless and primitive politics of building a second Niger Bridge. The political promise to build...

With less than a month to the governorship election in Ekiti State, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu at his investiture as Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) said...

“You can never tell a bad market-day by the morning.” This weather beaten Igbo proverb cannot be any truer with the way events panned out for the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, April 25, this year. The week...

In the run-up to the 2011 presidential election, it was General Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), who sowed the wind by telling his supporters to go on a lynching spree if the result did...

Dr. Good luck Jonathan is a young but vastly experienced politician who rose from the ranks to become the President of Nigeria in 2011 by popular mandate in a toughly contested national poll. When he assumed office, one item that...

Everywhere in the world, there are people who go into politics because they feel a genuine call to service. Others do so, either for self aggrandisement or in furtherance of some ignoble objectives or simply to protect their crooked...

No public commentator has as yet delivered as robust an analysis of the forthcoming 2015 presidential election as a regular columnist in the Vanguard, the intrepid Femi Aribisala. In a recent article, titled: ‘The 2015 presidential election will not...

Air transport reforms needed to unlock full potential Until recently, it was not uncommon for passengers flying between two African cities to transit through Europe. It was cheaper and faster, for instance, for passengers travelling to Ethiopia from Cote d’Ivoire...

Unprecedented investments in Africa’s ground transportation are hardly enough The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which sprawls over 905,000 square miles, is the second largest country in Africa. Fifty four years after independence, the DRC has no roads connecting...