OBI MEETS OBASANJO: A MEETING OF MINDS THAT COULD SHAPE NIGERIA’S POLITICAL FUTURE
The Labour Party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, on Sunday paid a visit to Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The closed-door meeting took place at Obasanjo’s penthouse…
NIGERIA’S NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM
I must appreciate the National Assembly for approving the Bill seeking to bring back our old Anthem. And I must also thank Mr President for passing this Bill into Law. If not for this act, I would not now be compelled to write this. For as I looked at…
BANDITS, FOOTBALLERS AND POLITICIANS
On March 24, 2022, nine villages in Giwa local government area of Kaduna State were invaded by bandits. At the end of their sacrilegious expedition, 50 persons were killed, 100 were abducted. One of those abducted was Fr Felix Zakari of St Ann’s Catholic…
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A KIDNAPPING?
In most cases, NOTHING. It’s as sad as it’s true. Here in Nigeria, when a dear one is kidnapped, we raise our voices in prayer, we organise Vigils and Novenas, we begin a scurry of activities, which unfortunately mostly end nowhere.…
ANOTHER CATHOLIC PRIEST MURDERED IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING
Last year, precisely on the 23rd day of November 2020, I wrote an article titled: INSECURITY AND KIDNAPPING IN NIGERIA: WE’RE SITTING DUCKS! My major point in that article was to decry the rising spate of insecurity in our beloved nation Nigeria.…
IN BED WITH THE DEVIL!
“We must be aware of the presence of this astute enemy, who seeks our eternal condemnation, our failure, and prepare to defend ourselves against him and to combat him” (Pope Francis). On February 21st, 2021, the Holy Father, Pope Francis while explaining…
HAS BUHARI SOMALIASED NIGERIA?
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly” (Mahatma Gandhi). Section 14 (2b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), states clearly that the welfare and…
CHINA’S AGENDA: AFRICANS BEWARE
“Today, China is increasingly authoritarian at home and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere” (Mike Pompeo’s speech at Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, July 23rd, 2020). Simply put, the USA…
HOW REPENTANT CAN EX BOKO HARAMITES BE?
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of terror.” Who should be rehabilitated, and reintegrated back to society? Is it the self-acclaimed repentant Boko Haram members, or the victims of Boko Haram attacks? To answer this question, it is…
COVID-19: HOPE AS UNIVERSITY IN CHINA DISCOVERS DRUG—SET FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
A laboratory in Peking University, China, has discovered a drug which could offer therapeutic care and confer short-term immunity for those infected with coronavirus. The research team which specializes in Single-cell Genomics, isolated neutralising…