VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa POLITICIANS in uniform became the sole authority in the country from December 31, 1983. They removed the elected executive and planted themselves in power. They abolished the legislature but retained the judiciary to do their bidding…
THIS DAY Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, Wednesday disclosed that the corporation, Shell, Total and Eni, who are investors in the NLNG Limited, will in October sign the FID on the Train-7 expansion…
VANGUARD PORT HARCOURT-IJAW Leader, Chief Edwin Clark has appealed to Governor Nyesom Wike to support the faction of Belema and neighboring communities in their relentless protest aimed at evicting Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, from Oil Mining Lease, OML, 25…
VANGUARD …presents lands to Jonathan, Abubakar, others By Samuel Oyadongha HE New Yenagoa City project was, yesterday, launched by Governor Seriake Dickson with the presentation of land to former presidents and heads of state that had served the country, including…
LEADERSHIP Google has partnered the Nigerian government to make an online safety curriculum available to all primary and secondary school students in the country, reaching an estimated 56 million Nigerian students every year. Google Nigeria country director, Juliet Ehimaun Chiazor,…
VANGUARD By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA—GOVERNOR Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has said his successor must be principled, bold and courageous enough to protect the collective interests of the Ijaw nation at all times. Dickson, who stated this while fielding questions…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa MOST of the world is like Nigeria where the strong sits on the neck of the weak; the powerful on the powerless, and runs the Western Democracy which is the government of the greedy, by the…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA is a country some talk about in the past tense. Like the famous author, Chinua Achebe titled his last book on Nigeria: There Was A Country. The United States of America, an expert in primitive…
Calls for the release of the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the last general election, Omoyele Sowore has been trending on Twitter, since the news of his arrest broke. Sowore, who is also an activist and publisher…
VANGUARD Akwa Ibom State Government said it recorded N20.4 billion between January and June 2019 as internally generated revenue (IGR). Executive Chairman, Akwa Ibom State Board of Internal Revenue, Mr Okon Okon, disclosed this at an interaction with newsmen in…
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