Even now, we still refuse to write our history or be guided by them. That is the tragedy of Africans – especially Nigerians who constitute one quarter of the African population. Was it not a living Nigerian president who asked that History should be deleted from our school curriculum? Can any leader of the USA, Britain, China, Japan, Brazil or Russia say that and not be put in a straitjacket?

Today, one of the major threats to Nigeria’s economic and social stability is the army of unemployed and underemployed people, especially youths, roaming its cities and villages. Such persons, no doubt, constitute huge security risk to the society, as they are willing tools for mischief-makers and of great concern as indeed it can be likened to a volcano on the verge eruption.

Lagos State, with an estimated population of about 23 million people is one of the richest states in Nigeria. It is one state that has the financial wherewithal to call the bluff of the Federal Government allocation and still survive. And when such a state then strikes oil in its domain and joins the league of oil producing states in the country, it could be said, as former head of state General Yakubu Gowon was reportedly quoted as saying, that the problem of Lagos state is not money but how to spend it.

THERE was comprehensible dissonance among militant groups in the Niger Delta beforelast Friday’s eventful consultative meeting of Niger Delta leaders in Warri, Delta State, where a pan-Niger Delta platform of all ethnic nationalities was established to dialogue and negotiate with the Federal Government.

Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, Spiritual Leader of INRI Spiritual and Evangelical Church, Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos, appears set to make possible his promised mobilization of 30,000 prophets to pray for Nigeria as he storms Port Harcourt this Thursday August 25, 2016 with a crusade he tagged, “The Power of the Word,” meaning in local language of the location state “Ike no na okwu Chineke.”