For most ecclesiastical leaders and theologians, the so-called revealed truths contained in religious scriptures allegedly written under the inspiration of God are unassailable. Indeed, in their reckoning, such “divinely revealed truths” are superior to verifiable information about the objective world generated through scientific investigation. The fundamental problem with religion with respect to truth is that the believer is cocksure that he is right because he has read the truth from a certain holy book and knows, in advance, that nothing will make him change his mind. Therefore, the truth of the holy book is an axiom accepted a priori, not the end product of the process of reasoning or painstaking research.

The Tuesday change of leadership in the Edo State House of Assembly has disrupted the political equation of the state, no doubt about that. While Edo North produced the governor in the person of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Edo South has the deputy governor and Hon. (Mrs) Elizabeth Atvie, just elected Speaker. Edo Central lost it after the former Speaker, Rt. Hon. Tiger Victor Edoror, was impeached and how to appease the Esan now is the headache of the leadership of the APC in the state. But the gladiators in the state House of Assembly who plotted the sack of Edoror are not bothered about that.

Some chieftains of the Peoples Demo-cratic Party (PDP) in Ughelli-North, Delta State have written to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to protest the ward and local government congresses in the area, which they said did not follow due process.

The Nigerian Army said, yesterday, its troops prosecuting the war against terrorism and rescue operations have successfully cleared seven villages of the remnants of Boko Haram.

The vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi has dismissed the monthly FIFA rankings as “too narrow” to give a true reflection of the actual state of a country’s football.