My Dear Clara: I failed in my futile attempts to find the appropriate words to convey the full weight of my grief over your departure. But as the good Christian you encouraged me to be, I bear my grief in full acceptance of God’s will. In life and in death, you remain dear to me […]

From June to August 2006, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, overseeing Nigeria’s External Relations. From July 2003 to June 2006 she served as Minister of Finance and Economy of Nigeria and Head of Nigeria’s much acclaimed Presidential Economic team responsible for implementing a comprehensive home grown economic reform program that stabilized the […]

…as wife, three kids languish in homeless shelter After evicting his wife and three kids into government’s homeless shelter in Montgomery County in Maryland, United States, the former Kogi Governor Prince Abubakar Audu has moved into the house allegedly living large, shopping and claiming “victory over his wife and children.” The kids, who attend schools […]

Ambassador Kemafor Chikwe’s rise in the political firmanent of Nigeria is phenomenal and salutary. From a humble ambition of running to represent Owerri Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives in 1999, Ndaa Kema as her admirers call her, rose to become Nigeria’s Minister of Transport and later Aviation, two grade A ministries for that […]

The National Assembly has decided to reduce its budget by over30 per cent, following public outcry against the jumbo pay and revelations by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s that the lawmakers consumed 25 per cent of the nation’s recurrent budget. Minority leader in the House of Representatives, Alhaji Mohammed Ali […]

Former minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili will this morning commence a visit to the seven local governments that make up Anambra Central Senatorial District apparently to intimate them of her senatorial ambition. Akunyili, according to one of her media aides, Mr. Julius Ogunro would first pay a courtesy call on the Governor, […]

AFTER the nullification of his election by Court of Appeal, Benin, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan is warming up for the re-run election. But has he done enough in the last three and half years to justify coming back, asks SUNDAY OGUNTOLA DOES Emmanuel Uduaghan deserve to win the much-awaited Delta re-run elections ordered by the Court […]