HAITI lays prostrate. Most of it flattened by the Tuesday January 12, 2010 earthquake which measured 7.0 on the Richter Scale. The capital, Port-au Prince, which lays 16 miles from the quake’s epicentre needs 70 per cent reconstruction while some parts of the country need 90 per cent rebuilding.

Today, I call for caution. I’m guided by experience.
Take this: After Phillip Troussier toiled to qualify us for the France ’98 World Cup, the authorities said he had no World Cup experience and therefore not a world class coach.

Yet again, Nigeria is being highlighted in international media outlets for negative reasons. While we were struggling to cope with the humiliating global coverage of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempted suicide bombing in America and endless embarrassing news items about President Yar’Adua’s prolonged absence in Saudi Arabia, religious riots erupted in Jos and are further damaging the country’s image.

Africans and Nigerians all over the world watched proudly as Barack Obama took over the mantle of leadership as the president of the United States .

By Owei Lakemfa THE constitutional “crisis” in the county today is contrived.  The fault is not on our Constitution.  The Constitution envisaged that the President or the Vice President can fall sick and be unable to carry out the functions of their office.  To that extent, there is  nothing wrong with the Constitution. What however […]