I remember 1976, vividly, as the year that witnessed the world of sports capitulate before the machinations of politics.

In a world dominated by strife, the Olympic Games have served as a most effective asset providing peace and unity among the human race. At four yearly intervals, the gathering provides individuals and nations – big or small; rich or poor; Capitalist or Communist/Socialist; Black or White – with the opportunity to participate/compete side by side. The Olympic Games are, indeed, the greatest global sports spectacle. In 1976 in Montreal, Canada, world politics reared its ugly head – perhaps, for a just and worthy cause. The full African Bloc staged a mass walkout of the Games in protest to the participation of New Zealand which had only lately sent its national rugby squad on a playing tour of Apartheid South Africa.

It’s been ten years since the AlQaeda terrorist attack on the United States of America. The attack which was executed with an eye for maximum devastation took place on September 11, 2001, hence the reference to 9/11, the shorthand formula by which it is now generally known.

THE headline of an ordinarily innocuous story filed by Daily Sun’s correspondent, Christopher Oji, was “Lawyer Apologises for Lying Against CP”(Daily Sun, Friday September 2, 2011).

Civil War is recognised as such because it always produces during its course more than one government while the existing but threatened state protects the sitting but also embattled government.

Itsekiri-born Pastor (Mrs.)Ruth Nick-Essien is a minister of exceptional appeal who believes that women should never be seen as a subservient creature; not even in the church. Ordained by Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Int’l in 1998, Ruth Essien is the Founder/Presiding Pastor of Exodus Evangelical Ministry in Lagos. Right from inception, she has stood radically by her mandate which is to raise true worshippers for God by helping man restore his relationship with Him, and also within the family by redeeming lost family values.

There is an increasing universal recognition that the prime essence of government is the actualization of a thriving and beneficent economy; last week, President Goodluck Jonathan formally inaugurated the engine room that would serve as the arrowhead for the determination of his place in history as Nigeria’s number one citizen.

By Treena Kwenta HI Readers! It was a Saturday and I was preparing to go out when Edmund showed up with Tayo’s m1,1m. He had taken her to their hometown Onitsha to spend a week, and they were on their way to his apartment in Apapa, when they made a detour to my place. As […]

They call what happened in Ibadan a force majeure.It is a happening that no one has any power over. My cousin in Ibadan told me when I called him, that there had never seen anything like it and he has lived over six decades. It was not an everyday disaster happening.

Let me use this occasion to reassure Nigerians and the international community that we now have strong leads to those involved in this terror war on Nigeria and Nigerians. I have directed security operatives to go after them no matter where they may be hiding…There shall be no sacred cows”.

The theme of our philosophical exploration today is very appropriate at this critical time in the history of Nigeria, in particular, and the situation of the world, in general. The April 2011 elections have ended, and there is widespread consensus that the entire process was satisfactory. Of course, there were incidences of electoral malpractices in different parts of the country.

Part two of the series ‘Now that we have moved forward’, is a rehash of a previous piece on this column, titled ‘Distilling Jonathan’s Wiki leaks’ It is apt and auspicious for the subject matter:“The Wikileaks report on Nigeria (during Ambassador Sanders’ tenure) quoted Jonathan as claiming he was his ‘own man’.

Mbonu Ojike’s book, I have two countries (1946), is a classic text of transnationalism and transnational identity. It registers the dual conundrum – the doubleness, or betterstill, the “Janus-faced” condition of existing in two places at the same time. One place claims your body, the other, your soul. It manifests the situation of the “double-gaze” and the “double-tongued” all clearly symptomatic of the ambiguity, and perhaps in fact, the ambivalence of double self-referentiality.

Last week, the topical issue was the perceived weakness of President Goodluck Jonathan to which many critics attributed the high level of insecurity in the nation. It was against the backdrop that people assessed the performance of the President after 100 days in office and scored him exceedingly low.

Last week, we studied vision, why we need vision, avenues through which God’s plans are unveiled and characteristics of true vision. This week, I want to show you some fundamentals of supernatural breakthroughs. Vision is not limited to a call to ministry. Abraham and Isaac were neither ministers nor priests; but God showed them His plan for their lives. Your mission on earth is the opening up of your own assignment on earth.

Slipped in the bath, knocked my head against a wall, and passed out. When I regained consciousness, it seemed a hundred days had passed.