THE mass killings of Christian faithful on Christmas day of all days when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, the symbol of Christiandom in the name of religious advocacy by the Boko Haram group is not only an action that must be condemned by all peace loving people, who value human life and civilized conduct but constitute a major threat to peaceful co-existence of people of different religious callings in Nigeria.

IT is likely that until about three months ago one had not heard the name Wael Ghonim. Ghonim was Head of the marketing division of Google in the Middle East and North Africa based in Dubai. But it was not as a Google executive that the Egyptian made name for himself and became world-famous.

THE Recent restoration of almost all the primary schools in Anambra State to the churches, their rightful owners, is bound to restore sound educational system, marked by enviable moral standards.

MY study and research of Nigerian history made it possible for me to extricate myself from the lingering grip of the Biafran propaganda, which still retains a powerful hold on most Igbo minds. It gave me a new perspective on Biafra and the civil war, a perspective, remarkably different from my earlier viewpoint shaped through the distorted prisms of the Biafran propaganda.

THE clock is ticking fast and Bayelsans are already counting down to the governorship elections scheduled for February 11, 2012. The political bedlam that followed Governor Timpre Sylva’s disqualification from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries is fast fading out.