By Patrick Dele Cole THE role of the US in Iraq is rather unedifying. President Bush encouraged Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to attack Iran in a bitter war. He invited hundreds of Iraqi scientists to the US to train and research in nuclear technology. When Secretary of State, John Kerry said: “We can’t let politics and mythology […]

Olusegun Mimiko who recently stepped down as a two-term governor of Ondo State is the most experienced of practicing politicians in Yorubaland today. He was twice appointed Health Commissioner by different governors, served as Secretary to Ondo State Government before he was appointed a Federal Minister, a position he resigned from to contest the Ondo State governorship election in 2007 running against the late Dr. Segun Agagu at micro level. His real contest at macro level was against then Emperor Olusegun Obasanjo who insisted he must not contest the polls.

WRITING about the needs of the Igbos or Igbo aspirations, whether in terms of what would make the Igbos happy (or unhappy), is not a difficult thing in any manner.

A lady born with sickle cell anaemia, Popoola Temitope, who is presently struggling to walk and living in pains needs urgent assistance from well-meaning Nigerians, government and the corporate society to help raise the sum of N5 million so that she could undergo a re-corrective surgery in India.

IT is an open secret that Nigerian’s economy is being systematically and deliberately raped as often canvassed in this column, what is obvious is that Nigerians have become poorer despite bountiful revenue and heavy debt accumulation over the years.