A prophet has honour except in his own land. This biblical axiom had dominated discourses for centuries breeding its own circle of ingratitude and irrational verbal outburst against even the unblemished in their own lands. Whenever emergent backlash is timely spotted like a submarine systemtically out of water, it is this biblical aphorism that is always summoned to soothe the minds of the unblemished frothing like dancing palm wine in the morning. I think it is time we intellectually subjected this saying ‘a prophet has honour except in his own land’ to gruelling interrogation since it is now lazily appropriated by phrase-mongers to darken the known phenomenal radiance of achievers all over the world. After all a snake seasonally casts off its skin to cope with the exigencies of its environment.

THE Vanguard newspaper editorial of Tuesday, 11 February 2014, page 18 Of Choristers, Hijab, Masquerades was an apparent attempt to put in perspective the disturbances that played up at the Baptist High School, Iwo in the State of Osun.

NIGERIA is a large country in West Africa with a growing population of 160 million people. She occupies an area of 923,766 square kilometres in the tropics. She is extremely rich in multicultural diversities, traditions and has many languages.

I was at a funeral ceremony, that of Mrs Helen Ogbobine, wife of the late Justice Rufus Ogbobine and biological mother to Peter and Paul Ogbobine, on Thursday and Friday, 13th and 14th instant.

THE 2015 elections may still be more than a year away, but in Delta State, some of the gubernatorial hopefuls are already at one another’s throats in what is fast deteriorating into a rat race to Government House. My projection is that the desperation with which various hopefuls for the governorship are trying to actualize their ambitions may end up framing the elections in crisis, bad blood and most unfortunately, in ethnic hatred