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.