The quest by Delta North to produce the next state governor, seemingly at all costs is worrying. Attempts to dignify the quest with other ideas betray the true motive of the advocates.

PRESENTLY, our country seems to be at crossroad. This is not the first time or the second and definitely may not be the last, because human lives just like every other thing is synonymous with change and challenges. They are inevitable and certain.

LOOKING back into our national history, the last time a top government official engaged in an act of sedition and rebellion against the Nigerian State was in 1967.

SOME of our brothers have turned the country upside down. Fear stalks citizens like long lazy shadows. Abuja, in particular, is as nervous as a virgin.

THESE are trying times for the Church of Jesus Christ in Nigeria and heaven demands of leaders, to provide sound and credible spiritual leadership for the church. The final outcome of the present crisis confronting the church shall be determined by the decisions that leaders of the church take.

ON the electronic media the spokesperson of the Department of State Service, DSS/SSS, Marilyn Ogar comes across as a tough security officer who speaks firmly and authoritatively on issues concerning the operations of her agency.

AT basic economic classes, we were taught to assume that all other things will remain the same before certain economic conclusions can be reached. In the real world, this is hardly possible and thus makes postulations on the economy subject to different interpretations.

AGREED, equity is fair, equity is justice. This is the pillar on which those from Delta North have hung their demand for the position of Delta State governor to be given to them. However, fairness and justice demand that proponents of zoning must be told the bitter truth that there has never been zoning in Delta State and never will such be.

CONSIDERING the achievements of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, the debate in Delta State now is who succeeds him. The 1999 Constitution limits the tenure of Governors and President to two terms of four years each. So by 2015, Uduaghan must vacate office in obedience to the constitution.

With barely two months to go to the kick-off of the world’s most glamorous and most watched sporting spectacular, the FIFA Senior World Cup, all the thirty two finalists are by now surely putting the final pieces in place for the journey to Brazil.

NYANYA, a small suburban settlement close to Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, was a quiet and peaceful area from where many daily travelled to Abuja for their numerous pursuits. With relatively cheaper rents than Abuja, it houses thousands, if not millions, of residents who shuttle to the capital for businesses and work daily.

PRESIDENT John F. Kennedy did not live to witness the final fulfilment of the most ambitious of his goals: the landing of man on the moon by the United States as he predicted.

LIFE is not all about the more you look, the less you see. Those who think of life in that manner have already misunderstood the principles of existence.

WHAT has now become a public issue is the sale of babies – a menace which has been on for some time – as teenage girls become victims of unwanted pregnancies and the children produced are sold out for adoption to couples who want babies at all cost.

A BUNCH of Nigerians was watching the final of the African Cup of Nations; and, against all odds, with the wobbling and fumbling of the country’s team, Nigeria won the cup, after a very long while. Some Nigerians hit the streets to celebrate. In other African cities the next day, they walked tall, especially in […]