By Kingsley  Omonobi Abuja-THE Nigeria Army raised  the alarm yesterday over what it called attempts by vested interest groups on the Jos crisis to portray it as a body which perpetrated extra-judicial killings with a view to supporting a particular group during the crisis, saying such accusations were an embarrassment to it. In a statement […]

A senior US envoy arrived in Lagos yesterday, the US embassy said, for talks expected to cover Nigeria’s leadership crisis and global terrorism in a visit that comes amid friction between the countries. US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson arrived in the city from neighbouring Benin, embassy spokesman David Renz said. “He […]

How can finite and fallible creatures like us ever learn to see things sub specie aeternitatis? No human being, including Spinoza himself, can achieve that impossible feat. Gottfried Leibniz, a German thinker, says that there are three types of evil, viz, metaphysical evil, physical evil and moral evil. Metaphysical is integral to the finitude or imperfections of creatures.

The political deadlock foisted on the country by the leadership of the PDP and a cabal in the Presidency in the aftermath of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s medical trip to Saudi Arabia appears to be nearing its end after the party and the Governors Forum confirmed at the weekend, the existence of a letter from the President to the National Assembly on his absence from the country.

Indeed what went wrong, as the text message asked? Interestingly, that text message represents perhaps the mildest form of dishonour attaching to the person of Yar’Adua that I have heard people voice across the land since the man and his wife departed to Saudi 69 days ago today Sunday, January 31, 2010. Many of the other insults that have been hauled in the direction of the presidency are totally unprintable.

“Nurse, I’ve tried several times, but there’s no milk flowing, my nipple has become very sore, and my baby is very hungry,” protested Maisie. “Can’t he have the formula?”

I am used to reading about history being made when there are a hundred or thousand steps and each step is counted as a building block that led to the hall of fame where the records are stored. So there is this painstaking build-up, and accumulation of positive acts of the ones who were part of the history that was made.

The modern nation is characterized by border crossings and intermingling, by a necessarily mobile, overt and covert copulation of beings in its domain of reality which must subvert traditional affiliations if a nation must grow.

Professor Pat Utomi is a rare individual and many would agree. But he is also a concerned Nigerian. His shot at the presidency in 2007 was considered a fool’s errand in some quarters – a wasted effort – but the man believes and, therefore, insists that it was one wonderful experience which has touched and continues to touch many lives. How? It is about changing the mind set of the leaders of tomorrow, making them realize that Nigeria can not get anywhere with the present template on which it is governed.

By Okey Ndiribe A professor of law at the University of Lagos and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ado-Ekiti  (UNAD)   Akin Oyebode has condemned Saturday’s gubernatorial election held in Anambra State by  the  Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in defiance of a Federal High Court order. In a telephone interview,  he stated that based […]