Recently, the Garden City of Port Harcourt in Rivers State was thrown into jubilant mood as men and women from all walks of life converged on the city to witness the grand opening of Nigeria’s church-sponsored first free specialist hospital built by the Omega Power Ministries, a church that has now become famous for its sacrificial philanthropic gestures to the people in diverse areas of life.

The rampant cases of suicide using the Sniper insecticide, especially among Nigerian youths, have raised a debate on social media over whether or not the insecticide should be banned in Nigeria.

WE are not in Spain. But there, it is claimed that bulls are enraged when red flags flutter before them. The matador, the man who fights and kills a bull in a sport, gets the beast into the game by waving the red cloth. The indifferent, motionless animal only charges at his opponent when it sights his muleta, the stick with a crimson swathe employed in the final third of the bullfight…We know what follows: savagery, slaughter and sanguinary cheers from the spectators.

AHEAD of its June 11 inauguration, there has been so much noise about the mode of electing presiding officers of the ninth National Assembly. Some stakeholders canvass adoption of the secret ballot system while some others favour open ballot. Both have given reasons for their respective stance.  Secret ballot advocates want confidentiality so that members can freely cast their votes without fear of victimisation by the superintending machinery of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC. Those pushing for open ballot want a restraining process that could be used to rein in members of the governing party to vote for its endorsed candidates.

AFTER the George Washington-led forces roundly defeated the military forces of King George III of the British Empire, something akin to a constitutional conference was held. It was mutually agreed by the founding fathers of the United States that there should be a bicameral legislature to legislate for the new nation.