We toil, and toil and toil! Then we hoard and hoard and hoard. What for? For the future.
For our old age. That’s the mind set of most human beings. We don’t know what the future holds for us, but we know what we want it to hold. That is, a life of ease and good health, particularly in our old age.

Frequently, a certain segment of Nigerians, particularly those from the Southern flank raise the flag of progressive politics, and claim to represent the sum of all practices of progressive ideas in Nigeria. The North of Nigeria is also thus frequently cast as providing the antithesis of progressive politics, and therefore becomes the veritable face of Nigeria’s antinomy in the consciousness of the South.

EDO State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that 80 per cent of governors, National Assembly members and other public office holders in Nigeria cannot swear they were elected by popular demand in 2007, and so, it was the political elite and not the people that should be enlightened on the true canon of democracy.

In African traditional religion, evil in the form of calamities and misfortunes, is almost always traced to supernatural causes. It is considered as punishment from the spiritual realm for committing what the Igbo call nso ala or abomination.

I had not meant to write of my experiences in the past couple of weeks but by some weird coincidence I got permission to do so by a most unlikely source; the lead actor in what was a tragic-comedy of sorts. Last year had come with its share of difficulties but it seemed to be ending on a great note as most of the issues that made it hard were all resolving themselves just as December was rolling away.

The pro-Yar’Adua elements in government are reworking their strategy of sustaining his tenure following the massive pressure from within and outside the country for the president to transfer power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

This is one question that has been on the lips of the people of Ogun State since Monday evening’s gruesome murder of the 2007 governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in Ogun State, Otunba Adedipupo Dina, at Ota, Ogun State. “DD Direct” as he was popularly referred to, was killed by unknown assailants who spared the lives of two other persons: His driver, Mr.Tunde Oyediran and a prophetess, Funmi Olagoke, who were in his black Toyota Camry Car with him when the incident happened.

A first class monarch in Ekiti State, the Attah of Aiyede, Oba Adeleye Orisagbemi, and the acting provost, College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Dr Gabriel Olowoyo, were, Saturday, kidnapped at different locations and killed in an auto-crash as the abductors tried to escape with them.

The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) has denied an alleged prophecy by its General Overseer, Prophet T.B. Joshua, that a lion would run amok in Warri and attack people. A statement by the press department of the church said at no time did Joshua give such a prophecy, adding that all prophecies which always […]

FOR the 200 or so victims of the 1996 Pfizer Trovan saga in Kano, it has been a long tortuous journey and even as multinational pharmaceutical giant agreed to pay an out-of-court settlement of $75 millon (about N10 billion) to the 88 families of patients involved in the trial, there may be no songs or dances of victory.