Opinion

Followers of style and policy drive of the State of Osun's Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola should by now known that he holds two programmes - Education and Agriculture - tenaciously dear to his heart, out of the six policy...

The origin of the Igbo people is a mystery and a subject of greater controversy, more controversial than that of every other ethnic group in Nigeria and probably in Africa. There are so many versions of Igbo origin and it...

...Making the investments needed to end poverty Africa’s impressive growth record over the past decade has replaced previous headlines of a “hopeless” continent to ones of a “rising” Africa. The continent has been home to some of the fastest growing...

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...