Many years ago, the philosopher, Aristotle, observed that the difference between the educated and the uneducated is like that between the living and the dead. To Aristophanes, it is the dissimilarity between broken and unbroken horses. As President of the US, Lyndon Johnson declared: ”At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems; the answer for all the problems of the world — come to a single word. That word is education.”

If the Boko Haram is not tackled by the collective will of the people, nothing any government can do, the government can only act to the extent the people give it liberty to perform, even if you bring in the best generals in the world to govern.

IT was pandemonium when a ‘mad man’ dressed in swaddled in multi-coloured fabrics saun-tered in the worship centre of Glory Chapel of the Redeem-ed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Agbelekale, Abule Egba, Lagos, last Sunday sending choristers, members of the church scampering in every direction seeking safe haven.

According to Juliet’s father, “when I met him at Ekpan Police Station, I said to him, ‘Igwe is this you?’ he replied, ‘Daddy, I beg.’
“I said, ‘you are begging to go free after deliberately maiming my daughter?’”

The Ogun State government yesterday confirmed the outbreak of Avian Influenza otherwise known as H5N1 and also known as bird flu.

LAGOS — THE All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed doubt over President Goodluck Jonathan’s promise that the May 29, 2015 handover date is still sacrosanct, noting that the dates for the presidential and governorship polls should also remain sacred.

LAGOS — The controversy over the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari’s academic certificate has shifted to the court, as an Abuja-based lawyer, Mr. Chike Okafor has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to disqualify Buhari from contesting February 14 presidential election on account of false information given by the candidate in the affidavit he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in support of his nomination form.

LAGOS — SECOND Republic and first executive President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, is happy that the country has witnessed 16 years of unbroken democratic rule and wants the trend sustained.

Military authorities said, yesterday, that Nigerian troops were fully in control of Maiduguri and Konduga, the two cities Boko Haram attacked in the early hours of Sunday, noting that the fighting lasted into the early hours of yesterday.

Kano Hisbah Command has scuttled ‘wedding’ of two men in their twenties and detained the groom.

Lagos – Pastor Joe Femi-Dagunro, a senior pastor with the Grace and Glory Chapel, Lagos, on Sunday said that Christian faithful should not indulge in wasteful spending by taking trips to Jerusalem. The cleric made the remark during an interview in Lagos during the church’ inaugural Thanksgiving Service in Ikeja. Femi Dagunro said that as […]

A senatorial candidate on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Lagos West, Segun Adewale, has described allegation by the All Progressives Congress, APC, that President Goodluck Jonathan has not performed as mere propaganda, asserting that the President deserved a second term.

With less than four months to the end of his tenure, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has promised to construct three bridges in Obot Akara Local Government Area to ease the transportation of people and goods in the area.

Former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi has dismissed Soludo as a man hunted by his past for stating that he (Obi) built no signature project in Anambra State during his tenure.

Guinea’s prog-ress to the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations has created a potential safety dilemma for the Local Organising Committee of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.