Opinion

For the Sumerians the word “Mumu’’ means creative reason, in other words, that which creates all things. The Babylonian priests see the god Marduk as the creator of the world. Marduk was identified with the word “Mumu’’. The early...

Endowed by nature as the nation’s  treasure base, Rivers State is blessed with vast deposits of oil and gas, two functional seaports, an international airport, revived rail network, vast arable land, enhanced security network and a  business friendly environment. ...

Last week, Fortune, a part of the TIME network released a list of 34 World Leaders who are changing health care globally, and surprise! surprise! Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Chair of Gavi as well as CEO Seth Berkley, made...

The race for governorship of Osun state is picking up. Within the ruling All Progressive Congress, the man holding the ace is Governor Rauf Aregbesola,  whether anybody like it or not. Rauf is going to instal a successor, going by...

Legal practitioner, Ebun-olu Adegboruwa on Friday May 5, 2017 issued a statement titled ‘Let us paralyze the system’ in which he ominously called for a shutdown of all sectors in Nigeria as a blackmail tool to force President Muhammadu...

Security is said to be everybody’s business, and therefore requires a collaborative effort. This is because a neighbourhood is not secured when a location within it is attacked. Akin to this claim is that insecurity has assumed a global...

“I think President Muhammadu Buhari is sensitive to the diversity of this country. He has more than 6,000 appointments to make. He is bound, even if he doesn’t wish it, by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to...

The world is at war on various fronts and continents with no end in sight. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel on Tuesday May 2, 2017, travelled to Sochi, Russia to discuss the state of two of the wars with Russian...

For the third (or fourth) time in a row, President Muhammadu Buhari has missed the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting fueling insinuations that he must be “critically ill”. Some online media platforms reported on Tuesday May 2, 2017...

There are important lessons to be learnt from the detention and recent release of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), a breakaway faction of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra. MASSOB was...