Why would God promise a man a child and after giving him the child, He turns around and ask the same man to sacrifice the same child. Does it make sense? Of course not. It surely must be ridiculous. This kind of God must be a very wicked God. He cannot be relied upon and so cannot be worshipped. Do you agree with this? Well if you do, then you are one of those who lean on their own understanding and do not truly know who God really is.

Forget the rallies and campaign speeches, the name-calling, lies and half-truth, here’s one of the factors likely going to tilt the U.S. Presidential Elections – Early Voting. Unlike Nigeria, voters in 34 states of the union and Guam – a U.S. territory, do not have to wait until the November 8 election day; they can start voting months or weeks before the E-Day. On September 23 – exactly 20 days from today, voters in Minnesota will start heading to the polls, followed the next day by those in Michigan and South Dakota. Voters in Vermont, Illinois and Wyoming also will vote later this month.

Kidnapping today is rapidly on the increase.The menace is having it’s terrible toll on the people. The trauma victims go through constitutes another health problem. It is worse when when women are the victims because sometimes they are raped badly before they are set free.

Igbos have been called upon to have faith in the Nigerian project and work relentlessly for an equitable country where they can optimize their talents and actualize their destiny. The Senator representing Imo West in the National Assembly, Sen. Hope Uzodinma who made the call in London while addressing Imo West Association UK, also called for the establishment of a technology village in the South-east.

Global rating agency, Moody’s, yesterday, warned of a further contraction of the Nigeria, while it disclosed that the declining value of the naira would engender a marginal increase in Nigeria’s external debt to 5.2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by end of 2016 from 3.3 per cent in 2015.