A Niger Delta peace broker, Chief Tunde Smooth, has urged northerners not to deprive President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the next presidential to ensure the stability of the country.

He built a prodigious reputation at home and abroad as an original scholar. In other words, he is an orator of a kind; he speaks with erudition and compassion to younger generations in important contributions. His character, attributes and scholarly contributions earned him the respect and honour of whoever he comes in contact with all over the world. Soyinka has greatness thrust upon him and has achieved greatness. He is eruobodo (in Yoruba meaning brave).

Although Christianity has the monopoly of the prince of peace, it does not possess the monopoly of peace. Soon the whole world would be celebrating in one form or the other; Christmas, Holidays, Hanukkah, Sallah, Kwanza, Winter, Solstice, etc, a season of goodwill, love and peace.

On how I was able to come this far, I’ll say “You start as you mean to go on”. If you’re lucky to start young, good! I qualified for law practice when I was 21 years old, and not long after that, I got married.

The smile on the face of President Goodluck Jonathan as he alighted from the presidential jet at the Ibom International Airport said it all: Democracy is working in Akwa Ibom.

The just concluded football extravaganza in South Africa, in my view, is one of the most interesting World Cup finals in recent history. Indeed, it is a pivotal achievement for FIFA, because it was the first time the soccer fiesta was held in Africa.

A randy lecturer at Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo State, who allegedly specialises in threatening female students with “Carry-Over”, was yesterday given the beating of his life by irate students.

We cannot solve our problems with short-gun approaches. If there had been vision in leadership
Nigeria would have been at peace with herself today because she is one of the richest nations in the world. It is gratifying that the condemnation of the present system is coming from as high as the Deputy Senate President.

A BENIN chief priest, Felix Osadolor, alias Afro, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Benin High Court presided over by the Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Cromwell Idahosa, over the murder of fellow chief, Sunday Ahanon.

If we take Orji Kalu into the corners of Abia and present him to the people as one of us we are going to lose because people in Abia State still blame him for the problems of today.

THE Edo State correspondent of the Nation newspapers, Friday Otabor, was yesterday, severely beaten by political thugs allegedly loyal to a chieftain of the Action Congress (AC) while monitoring the bye-election into the state House of Assembly in Oghede ward, Ovia North East Constituency 11.

Viagra is no longer new on the market-and a lot of new brands of pills performing exactly the same ‘miracle’ have since flooded the chemist’s shelves. But is Viagra the magic pill men thought it would be?

Those who might have no ideas about the nature and character of opposition politics in Jigawa State and the agenda of its godfathers which some surrogate writers pretending to be Lamido praise-singers are now carrying out may not be in a position to appreciate this disapproval.

Nigeria can now, properly speaking, be described as a mafia state. Its
national ethic in other words is structured by a distinct disregard for the rule of law.

The Delta State Government declared, yesterday, it was “completely unaware” of the car allegedly sent to Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan as birthday gift.