THE destructive capabilities of nuclear weapons make their good uses to pale into insignificance. Our world and its environment is now facing total annihilation because of wanton and uncontrolled flaring of gas, development of chemicals, industrial emissions and manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction.

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.