AT the 2012 Physicians Week in Abuja, the President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, lamented that foreign medical treatment was costing the nation over $500 million annually, with as many as 5,000 Nigerians (monthly) travelling outside the country for treatment!

THE news about the death of Chinua Achebe hit me in a very personal way, coming exactly a fortnight of the burial of my eldest brother, Benji; as his Owerri contemporaries called my own “head of state”, Ben C. Nwigwe.

By Oluwafemi  Ibiayo   Yet again, the nation and indeed Humanity approaches the solemn season of Easter. Thus, again Humanity is afforded another opportunity to resolve the irrevocable question of Golgotha; What indeed truly, occasioned Golgotha? Was it Divine Design or was it a culmination of a series of calculated actions consciously orchestrated to achieve […]

WE have noted understandably the increased support for the call for amnesty, principally from some elders and opinion leaders in Nigeria; coming after the President’s rejection of the call made by His Eminence and Supreme Monarch, the Sultan of Sokoto.

THE questions arising from the above provision are as follows: Why should the Vice President been sworn-in as President? Why is the Constitution silent on the eligibility of such Vice President who assumes the office of President under Section 136 (1) of the Constitution to be elected subsequently as President in two tenures?