ASK the average Bible reader if anybody has ever seen Yahweh, the God of Israel and the prompt reply is likely to be “No.” He may however add that the only person who almost saw the god of Israel face to face was Prophet Moses, but then even...

FOR many political office-holders, delivering on promises made upon occupying the golden stool is not only an arduous task, it determines the operations of the time-tested principle of recall. Once when an office-holder forgets or neglects the...

MANY make it into limelight but they rarely stay there long without character. Absence of strong character eventually topples their success. This is because you cannot climb beyond the limitations of your character, Sometimes, people are tempted...

NO one had a premonition of the tragedy that befell our nation on Sunday, June 3, 2012 when the Dana aircraft, Boeing MD-83, on a domestic scheduled commercial flight from Abuja to Lagos, crashed into Iju-Ishaga, a crowded neighbourhood near the...

Continued from yesterday

IT is not so much that the result of the election is being contested but the manner of contest, which seeks to basically generate confusion and in the process create legitimacy crisis for the second tenure of Governor...

DIVINE rights are rights that come from only one source, God. These rights are rights that cannot be manipulated, or traded. They belong only to the person designated much like the monarchy in Great Britain, where only those born into the royal...

AS recent as the mid 1970s, school leavers could apply for employment in any organisation or seek for admission into any institution of higher learning by merely waving their mock West African School Certificate result. The mock examination was...

ACCORDING to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Perseverance is defined as the “quality of continuing steadfastly to achieve a particular aim or goal despite some difficulties”.

It is the will to see things through until the end is...

UNDERSTANDABLY, the commencement of the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) in Nigeria was greeted with euphoria. Prior to the roll out of GSM services in 2001, there were less than 400,000 fixed telephone lines. Today, the number of...

THE election of Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) finally held on Friday, May 24 and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has emerged victorious. Polling 19 votes out of 35 while his opponent Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau got 16 votes...

THIS is the second segment of an appreciation of Anthony Akinola’s new book, Democracy in Nigeria. The first segment ended last Thursday with Akinola recalling one of the demands that came from delegates of the Southsouth geopolitical zone at...

 

UP to the moment he breathed his last on Thursday, March 21, 2013, Chinua Achebe, Africa’s most quoted raconteur, novelist, essayist and social critic, did not know he was the person who ignited my interest in the business of public affairs...