FOR weeks now, the issue of Biafra agitation has been at the front burner in the polity. Every vendor’s stand has been turned into a theatre of arguments by free readers and potential customers, who spend hours analysing the fresh Biafra movement being propelled by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, via peaceful protests.

AMONG the many gifts God gave to Nigeria is an abundance of coal. Many years ago when we were told about gas, we were also told that our coal was not cokeable; was of lower quality, could not produce the high temperature needed for power plants, etc. As for gas, we were told that it […]

ACCORDING to Wikipedia: “A saint is a person who is recognised as having an exceptional degree of holiness, or likeness to God.” In other words, a saint is beyond human, he is in the spiritual realm and infallible. He cannot be faulted because all he does is right in line with the traits of the Almighty God. Who can question the Almighty God? Because of this, man has decided to capitalise on the phrase, “I am no saint”, to explain away his frailties.

A REMARKABLE aftermath of the passage and interment of the matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief Mrs. Hannah Idowu Dideolu, HID, Awolowo was the bond of friendship and solidarity that it elicited even among erstwhile foes. Perhaps nothing gave fillip to this pervading spirit of camaraderie than the commendable gesture by the family of the last Premier of the defunct Western region, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola.

Politics in Nigeria has been so bastardised that many people doubt the principles of actors. However, it appears that there are still a few good men in the art. One of such people is former acting Governor of Taraba State Alhaji Garba Umar. His recent actions have shown that there are individuals with strong values in politics.

THERE are certain things that serve as dream killers in life; you do not want near you. The news of the annulment of the election of Darius Ishaku, the Governor of Taraba State, is one of such.

ASK President Muhammadu Buhari what he thinks is the chief reason for the violence and insecurity in Nigeria, including the Boko Haram terrorism in the north-east, bloody wars between cattle herdsman and farmers in central Nigeria, erosion in the east and the environmental catastrophe in the costal regions and he will say, almost upon instinct that it’s the climate change.

On Thursday, December 10, it will be exactly 10 years since the Loyola Jesuit College community was struck by a tragedy of immense proportions. 60 of our students perished in Nigeria’s worst air crash. Some of the students were in year 7(JS1) while some others were in their last year of high school. Naturally, they were all happy to go home to celebrate Christmas. And their families were waiting to receive them with joy. But everything turned into a long, debilitating grief with the plane crash.

Why do we keep talking about unemployment when the potential, the need and the capacity and the solution are staring us all in the face?

On Saturday, Nov 7, when the tribunal sitting in Abuja nullified the Taraba governorship election on the grounds that the incumbent, Darius Ishaku, was not duly sponsored by any political party to run for the election as required by law, many people including myself were elated.