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“For it is in giving that we receive, and in dying that we are born to eternal life” -Prayer of...

I am proud of the decision that the British Parliament has taken not to join in the attack on Syria....

I have called President John Dramani Mahama and I have now congratulated him on being elected the fourth president of...

Let us hold the old adage true that a person who does not produce cannot generate wealth nor should her...

During campaigns of political parties and their respective candidates for elections into public offices, Nigerians, by implication, are expected by...

The 19th century historian, Thomas Carlyle was a promoter of the Great man theory, the philosophical concept that the history...

Our Country is again sliding towards a dangerous precipice and it is pertinent to call the political class to order...

A pall of confusion may have descended on security circles in Abuja following the reported killing of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of...

On a graduation day at the University of Ibadan, I observed as a mounted police officer rudely caused a small...

How can we make sense of the contradictory arguments? Who actually wants democracy in Egypt? Let’s review the positions of...

In January 1987, as a member of “Vice-President” Augustus Aikhomu’s delegation to the meeting of the Africa Fund Committee of the...

The challenges facing Africa are too many, lamenting about them will not solve the problem, ignoring them will compound the...

Governor Danbaba Suntai has returned to the country almost exactly ten months after he was evacuated to Germany and later...

According to news reports Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai,returned to Nigeria yesterday. Ordinarily, this should be a charming development...

Radical lecturers such as the late Bala Usman and Mahmoud Tukur, Bjorn Beckman, Patrick Wilmot, Claude Ake, Okwudiba Nnoli, Akin...

The Lagos sky is setting on this glorious Saturday evening. Out in the streets, millions of people are wondering where...

A Greek proverb warns: "don't hear one and judge two". This sensible aphorism would appear to have been ignored by...

If God were to inspire me to write a book, the words in my book would still be my words. ...

I have refrained from ventilating my views in writing on the now Controversial relocation saga some people prefer to call “deportation”...

In dealing with the subject of truth in society, one constant fact people will notice is that those who want...

“While our prospective litigation asserts the rights of California taxpayers, it’s equally necessary to protect society’s most vulnerable from continued...

Permit me to begin this contribution with two incontrovertible assertions. Firstly, had we successfully answered what has come to be collectively known...

 Prejudice has become profitable in Nigeria. It’s boom season for ethnic entrepreneurs and, indeed, for sundry purveyors of hate. These...

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri,...

The debate following the decision of the Nigerian Senate’s vote to keep the controversial clause in Section 29 of the...