Opinion

In the exercise of caution and with guarded trepidation, President Obama seeks to garner support from Congress before launching an attack against Syria in the wake of Syria’s use of chemical weapon. President Obama had come to that resolution following...

Who can hold Obama back when he decides to strike? Obama will send a deterrent message to Syria sooner or later on his own terms. Deterrent must not be based on impulsive reaction defying all reasonable counsel. It must...

Bible; (NIV) Mathew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Quran; The Iron...

Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) – can we continue to tackle these separately? According to the Global TB Report (2012), in 2011, out of 8.7 million people who developed TB worldwide 1.1 million (13%) were HIV positive....

In the midst of the saber-rattling from Washington and Western Europe about punishing the criminal enterprise in Syria for the recent chemical weapons attacks in Damascus, women and men of conscience must begin to ask themselves how we got...

Last week, I had an interesting conversation with a friend who lives in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, and is a senior civil servant in the state. Midway through the conversation, I asked what he thought about the...

A sage once opined that the problem with the Nigerian youth is that “they eat too much, sleep too much and drink too much”. This unkind yet truthful appellation describes well how the youth have transformed from being the...

In the foreword to my book titled “Politics and litigation in contemporary Nigeria”, Complete volume which was published in the year 2005, the then Federal Attorney General and minister of Justice Chief Akinlolu Olujimi had stressed the importance of...

“I think that Robert E. Lee, as a traitor and betrayer of his solemn oath before God and the Constitution, was a much greater terrorist than Osama Bin Ladin” says Erik Loomis and l add the seven Governors and...

Chinua Achebe once noted in one of his powerful pieces that "Nigeria is a child, gifted, enormously talented, prodigiously endowed and incredibly wayward". In the same piece, he asserted "Being a Nigerian is abysmally frustrating and unbelievably exciting". The...