THEME: DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA:THE LEGACY OF ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR CHIEF GUEST OF HONOUR:HIS EXCELLENCY,SEN. AHMED BOLA TINUBU, GCFRPRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOUR:HIS EXCELLENCY,PAUL KAGAME,PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA GUEST SPEAKER:PROF. PLO LUMUMBA KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: FEMI FALANA, SAN PROF. SAM AMADI […]
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo turns 89 on the 5th of March 2026. Through this piece, Leadership Scorecard celebrates the birthday anniversary of a General of War – “The Balogun of Owu Kingdom”, a soldier and prisoner of conscience, president and peacemaker, who has occupied more consequential […]
As Olusegun Obasanjo turns 89, we must remind ourselves that leadership is not merely about occupying office but about shaping direction, sustaining institutions and stewarding national purpose. His journey from military head of state to democratically elected president reflects a rare continuity of service across […]
Northern Nigeria’s leadership crisis is not the absence of leaders, but the absence of structured continuity. From independence in 1960, the North understood leadership as stewardship. Under Sir Ahmadu Bello (Sardauna of Sokoto), and other Northern leaders such as Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Hassan Usman […]
A Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has denied a Statement credited to One Alhaji Mahdi Shehu that he asked Northerners working in the State to always wear a badge as a means of identification when he (Obi) was in Office between 2006 and […]
A top official of the Nigeria Correctional Service has debunked the report that suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari and some high-profile inmates have escaped Kuje Prison. The official who spoke with Vanguard claimed that terrorists who bombed Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, Abuja on Tuesday […]
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has vowed to remove the controversial fuel subsidy if elected as president in 2023. Nigeria’s petrol subsidy as of 2021 cost around $4.5bn, or roughly two percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The reported figure […]
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has submitted that Nigeria must not vote along ethnic, religious or other sentimental lines in the 2023 presidential election. Obi who spoke on Wednesday during a TV interview stated that such sentiments have led the country […]
The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, and the Management of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) have been summoned over the failure to clean up Ogoni land. The National Assembly Joint Panel on host communities summoned the minister and the management of HYPREP over the failure […]
Doyin Okupe, a Labour Party vice presidential placeholder, questioned why people are coming together to lie and attack the person whom they claimed to not have structures and whose followers exist only on social media. Nigerians have started campaigning for and supporting their preferred candidate […]
The Lagos State Government has fired a customary court member, Mr Ishola Razaki Adeyemi, who in 2015 allegedly dissolved a marriage and married the wife of the complainant, Mr. Olayemi Ayeni. Ayeni, in a 2016 video which recently went viral, claimed Adeyemi dissolved his and […]
Enugu journalist, Raymond Okechukwu Ugwu of Daily Star news picks Labour Party House of Assembly ticket for Enugu East Rural Constituency ahead of 2023, urges Ndi Enugu to embrace the party. Okechukwu Ugwu has enjoyed Ndi Enugu to embrace the party as the only credible […]
…Reiterates support for indigenous companies …As automobile firm donates sample vehicle to government The Enugu State government has expressed delight at the commitment of Ingrace Group in promoting indigenously manufactured vehicles in Nigeria. Speaking when a delegation from Ingrace Motors Nigeria Limited, led by its […]
In most advanced societies, the direction of voting is almost always circumstantial. The socio-economic-cum-political situation of the State/Country motivates the direction of public voting. In the 1980’s in the US election, Ronald Reagan swept away the incumbent Jimmy Carter in a groundswell of support to […]
