The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay, almost shy against the grand marble of St. Peter’s. It held the body of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis; it also carried a final message, passed without words. As I watched the funeral, […]

From last week, continues the statement by  Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, explaining why he permitted the meeting of the Western House of Assembly  following the Action Group crisis and the subsequent declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region It must be on the strict understanding that there will be no police protection within […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is in a celebratory mood as more politicians defect, depleting the ranks of the rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In what was like a tsunami in Delta State, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa and their political appointees, defected. However, such defections are not unexpected as the ruling party, […]

On 13 December 1972, Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, signed into law the Constitution (Amendment) Acts, numbers 3,4 and 5 ending the country’s First Republic and ushering in a new constitution for the country, which promised a “One-Party Participatory Democracy” under “one and only one party…., namely, the United National Independence Party (UNIP).”

From 2009 when insurgency reared its ugly head in the Northeast of Nigeria till today, it has been killings, killings and killings in Africa’s most populous nation. Authentic figures of how many citizens have since died or suffered from traumatic kidnapping are unknown. What is not in dispute however is that insecurity is now topmost […]

“There are no desperate situations; only desperate men [and women and children]” – Josef Goebbels, 1897-1945. Adolf Hitler’s Chief of Propaganda, during the last hundred days of the fall of Hitler’s Third Reich, was the man saddled with the task of broadcasting frequently fake news about the war situation to the German people – who […]

Christ lives and this gives us the confidence that we serve a living God.Christ rose from the grave after three days. Matthew 28 vs. 5&6 ( KJV)   bears testimony.   It states: “ And the angel answered and said unto the   women, Fear not ye: for I know   that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He […]

The Bible tells us how Moses led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt. He was leading them to the land which God had promised them. The journey took 40 years we were told. Jist when they were at the threshold of entering the Promised Land, which was flowing with milk and honey, God took […]

The PDP governors are queuing up to jump into the APC. They say their ship is sinking. They are singing and dancing and justifying their capitulation as nation-building. The PDP once thought it was the greatest party in Africa. These are trying times on all fronts. The conspiracy of the ruling class could be the […]

In a week that the country’s political landscape reverberated with the most shocking defection to the ruling party so far, it was no less of a shock that one of the leading lights of the Nigerian charismatic movement was also busy mobilizing against the poor in our midst. Whatever, the reason behind the defection of […]