BY KOLADE LAREWAJU TWO suspected human parts dealers were yesterday burnt to death by an irate mob for allegedly being in possession of  human parts. The duo were burnt at about noon in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital. Eyewitness account said that three men dressed as if they were mentally unbalanced were accosted by people close […]

BY TONY EDIKE THE joy of the robbers that raided four commercial banks in Nsukka, Enugu State on Friday lasted only a few hours after policemen from Anambra and Enugu went after them and succeeded in killing two of them and recovered sophisticated weapons, charms and N4.5 million cash. Police sources said yesterday that the […]

BY  SAM OYADONGHA Yenagoa – PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua is due in Yenagoa tomorrow at the start of his two-day rescheduled tour of Bayelsa State. Consequently, security has been beefed up in and around Yenagoa the capital city by the combined team of the police and the Joint Task Force which combat vehicles could be seen […]

* N-Delta elders meet Boyloaf in the creek By EMMA AMAIZE Warri – A TOP member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), “General” Boyloaf, yesterday, disagreed with group’s spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, over the disowning, weekend, of the national president of the Nigerian Red Cross Society and politician, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, as […]

But let me say that what I read from all the speeches was his regret that we do not seem to have discovered the joy in affecting positively the human condition. You see, we belong at a level of development where the human condition can be sacrificed to meet the greed of vested interests.

LET me start this series with the facts on which there can be no serious dispute ore delving into areas where the GSM text punches will fly. Even disagreements are healthy for us.

This is why in theology and political ideology persecution is usually employed to force unbelievers to accept opinions which otherwise they would not accept.

By Obi Nwakanma DOES America’s President Barrack H. Obama’s choice of  Ghana as his first port of call to sub-Sahara Africa really matter in determining the new directions of America’s foreign policy on Africa in the coming era? Diplomatic sources on the Nigerian end seriously think so.

THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, says its ultimate demand is “true fiscal federalism”, which it insists is the only guarantee for peace in the country. The group which attacked the strategic Atlas Cove Jetty in Lagos last Sunday evening and then declared a 60 day cease-fire wants President Umaru Yar’Adua to “break away from the tradition and fear of the past where other regions were afraid of fiscal federalism” , otherwise “we have a problem on our hands”.

Most of the things that bring about all these things we are shouting about today are because, ab initio, people were not elected by the majority of the votes cast in the elections