Next generation of Falcons, by Patrick Omorodion
The 2026 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup may have come and gone but the memories of it would linger for a very long time. The competition which is the lowest among the age grade competitions put together by football’s world governing body, FIFA as nursery for the senior teams participating in the Women’s World Cup […]
Building God’s Kingdom with Bombs, Blood and Tears
The Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad sect, better known as Boko Haram, has very clearly spelt out the goal of its bloody jihad: to establish Allah’s kingdom in Nigeria. As the pre-history of Nigeria informs us, however, this is an old cause dating back to Usman Dan Fodio’s jihad of 1804-1808.
Our First Lady, the Permanent Secretary
IT’S been two weeks since I first broached here the rather idle decision of Seriake Dickson, governor of Bayelsa State, to appoint Mrs. Patience Jonathan a permanent secretary in the State.
Many wrongs over our rights
ON the 8th of December, 2011 the Senate approved the President’s request to appoint the Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission.
Power is nothing without control
MY caption today is borrowed form the pay off of the Pirelli tyre advertisement. I find it very profound whenever I contemplate the appeal to importance and the relish of power by people. Nigerians love their power and always like to wield it exclusively.
US’s approach to Security planning
A COLLEAGUE of mine who taught in South Africa informed me that President Nelson Mandela had regular meetings with the heads of departments of political science. Mandela’s practice would therefore appear as a validation of Colonel Sir William F. Butler’s recollection of the following opinion of Charles Gordon:
