VANGUARD EDITORIAL The ordeal of a Member of House of Representatives (Ethiope East/West, Delta State), Hon. Ben Igbakpa, at the hands of Ghana airport security officials is another reminder for our leaders to handle crucial governance matters with care and maturity to prevent unwittingly exposing innocent citizens to avoidable hazards. We are still reeling from […] Read more
BACK PAGE COLUMN By Michael West MaTaZ ArIsInG October 15, 2021 Unless it truly turns out to be a publicity stunt and a hoax aimed at gaining media blitz as alleged in some quarters, Tiwa Savage, a sultry songstress and dancer, will be doing an incalculable discredit to her public image if her sex romp […] Read more
By Basil Okoh The National Assembly has passed an amendment to the electoral law directing political parties to mandatorily take the direct primaries option to choose candidates for elections. It is a good step for the expansion of democratic practices within the political parties. The meltdown in the PDP in the past sixteen years was […] Read more
By Anthony Ejiofor – – Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Professor Ivan Sheehan’s opinion piece published in the October 4, 2021 edition of the Washington Times and entitled “U.S. Ignores Small African Terrorist Group, IPOB at its peril” was a travesty that could endanger the lives of over 50 million Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. The piece […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 11 October, 2021) Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week has a very interesting definition of honour. He says it means “respect yourself (so that) others will come to respect you.” That is from his ‘Paradise’ – a ‘narrative reversal’ […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) I write in defence of the Mosquito, even as I wish that it sucks fat instead of blood. Every misfortune has an ingredient of fortune if you look deeply enough. Call it a pest, a killer, or whatever else you may, the mosquito, which depopulates whole continents, is also, by some […] Read more
By Ayo DADA When a man pursues a dream vigorously for over 10 years, it is assumed that he will be more than prepared and ready when that opportunity finally arrivess, but not with President Buhari, it seems. If he had waited for another 40 years to run Nigeria, he wouldn’t have done better than […] Read more
By Adewale Adeleke Northerners have been “voting leaders and not porn stars” forever, although one might add, not to be outdone in the sex department… Northerners have been “voting leaders and not porn stars” forever, although one might add, not to be outdone in the sex department, somehow they have also legitimized pedophilia as inherent […] Read more
By Basil Okoh The insistence by the Turaki Adamawa, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to contest the presidential primaries of the PDP even as it is zoned to the South highlights once again the disruptive nature of Fulani in Nigeria. The Fulani determination to rule Nigeria or otherwise disrupt and destroy it, remains the Central challenge of […] Read more
By Lisa Myers, Aram Roston & amp; the NBC Investigative Unit – June 30, 2005, 6:34 PM EDT Turning off the spigot of cash to terrorists is supposed to be a top priority for the U.S. and the United Nations. But an NBC investigation found what appears to be a major oversight by investigators: A […] Read more
