”We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations General Assembly, 1972. As it was in 1972 so […]
Saturday Xtra:: By Oyewale Oyelola In Nigeria when you are upright, diligent, unique, rugged, fearless and above all to stand alone when majority are going other way, people will call you names and even describe you as a controversial person. Pastor Tunde Bakare is a trained lawyer and the serving Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Since its inception in August, 1973, the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM), a Nigerian indigenous Pentecostal Christian religious body, has been synonymous with signs and wonders, such as healing the sick and liberating people from all manner of spiritual captivities. Suffice it to say that these tremendous breakthroughs and spiritual upliftments of […]
By Tajudeen Balogun Nigeria is a big country with people of diverse ethnic and religion background. These to a large extent, determine its complexity as well as the citizenry. No doubt, Nigerians are diligent, brilliant, productive black people. Despite this, the nationals of this part of the globe can be sometimes terrible and difficult to […]
By Okechukwu Nwanguma About a week ago, someone called me to confirm the disturbing information he received that the outgoing Inspector General of Police Mr. M.D. Abubakar had reinstated Mr. Sam Chukwu, ‘a rogue Cop’ who, in 2012, while serving as the DPO of Ogui Police Station, Enugu, was implicated in high-level kidnapping in Enugu. […]
By Joe Igbokwe The latest attempt to bomb a prominent leader of APC, General Buhari out of existence portents grave danger for the survival of democracy, as well as Nigeria’s as a political entity. Whoever muted the idea to lie in wait to kill General Buhari as he rode in his car on a Kaduna road […]
By Damola Awoyokun It is the patriotic duty of every Nigerian to dance on the grave of General Sani Abacha. Contrary to the Levickian PR his supporter Prof G.G. Darah did for him in his article Dancing on Abacha and Yar Aduas’ Graves (The Guardian, 17-18th July 2014), Abacha remains the most despicable leaderNigeria ever had. He killed Ken Saro […]
The attempt to snuff life out of one of Nigeria’s most revered former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, in a fiendish operation which would have passed for a routine Boko Haram attack if their hand had performed their enterprise, would have thrown Nigeria in turmoil of unimaginable proportions as President Jonathan submitted days ago. […]
By: Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Nigeria has been facing series of insurgencies and common crimes with a very significant rise in this democratic Fourth Republic. The type of crimes on the rise in Nigeria would include kidnapping, armed robberies, killing for rituals, baby factories and general child trafficking, religious and political […]
The recent exchanges between Professor Okey Ndibe, an intense columnist and essayist and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, a cerebral clergyman and loquacious intellectual of Sokoto Arch-Diocese threw up issues of concern to many of us. I do not intend to respond on behalf of the scholarly Bishop. Everyone knows that he does not need my […]
By Femi Fani-Kayode “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations General Assembly, 1972. As it was […]
If truly the ex-governor committed any treason against the Federal Government or fingered the treasury of his home state, he ought to have been subjected to a house arrest immediately he was de-kitted of the immunity he once enjoyed. It’s like a medicine after death the story that Nyako’s security aides conversely whisked him out […]
By Tony Usidamen In the past week or so, I have read quite a number of articles and comments about the ‘purported’ award of a public relations (PR) contract to a foreign-based PR consultancy, LEVICK, which, as a local news site – www.thecable.ng – put it, was hired by the News Agency of Nigeria to […]
Perhaps, if there is any sector of the Nigerian economy that requires urgent attention, the aviation industry should top the list even though there is hardly any facet of our national life that is not in comatose and critically distressed. This is the burden the new helmsman in the Aviation Ministry should be ready to […]
By Sufuyan Ojeifo The recent attack on the convoy of General Muhammadu Buhari, former Head of State and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by a suicide bomber in Kaduna is a wakeup call to all politicians that the time has come to close ranks and stop playing politics with the issue […]
By Chief (Sir) Don Ubani, ksc, JP Right from the earliest history of man, leadership has been a characteristic feature of human enterprise. Where any society is, by way of its socio-econo-political development, depicts a clear measurement of the potency of its leadership. It, therefore, follows that the gap between two human societies is a […]
We have watched for some time now with irritation and even amusement the growing desperation of Musliu Obanikoro, the junior Minister representing Lagos State in the Ministry of Defense. It appears Mr. Obanikoro is wracked with some greedy obsession which makes him believe that he should have a first shot at all appointments and even […]
Mazi Odera I wanted to keep quiet and rejoice like others ,but how can we all keep quiet in midst of this great injustice ?,sure,they removed Stella Oduah and replace her with another Anambra person ,But this appointment of Mr. Osita Chidoka (Ike Obosi) worries me,inshort it pains me like the menace going on in […]
By Tajudeen Balogun July 17, 2014 It is doubtful whether before now her name rings bell to many Nigerians, hence the poor visibility (probably) in this part of the world. Yet, the national dailies were awash with her arrival to the country last weekend, her visit and the mission. The 17 years old Pakistani child […]
Uche Nwosu According to Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), an America philosopher, “to be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant”. In fact, this is the best way to describe critics of Gov T.A. Orji of Abia state who, rather than appreciate the socio-economic and political revolution ongoing in Abia state, decided to hurl […]
