The lesson for the youths, trade unions, labor unions, students unions, and other democratic associations in a repressed polity is to educate their members about the need to understand the basic revolutionary ingredients needed to change power from the hand of the few oppressive elite into the hands of people centered democrats…
Libya is in crises. Saif al-Islam Ghaddafi is about his business – the obedient son of a sit tight dictator – defending his nation’s honor and right to sovereignty. Out of the blue reports and as yet unproven, allege that Saif Ghaddafi plagiarized some parts of his doctoral thesis without attribution…
The emerging Nigerian business executives and Nigerian universities, especially the business schools, should look up and be willing to learn from the two most successful Nigerian billionaires. Our universities must create curriculums on teaching students the models of operations and methodologies employed by the business trail blazers…
The promise is that the shaking of the World will destroy all man-made systems, satanic scientific establishments, oppressive ancient regimes and man-made security arrangements. The only security one can be sure of is the one God, the Father provides in these end-times…
What has been heard from Amaechi was how he would cut down the heavy tax people pay, his government instituted, if elected the second time. This gesture by the governor was once a taboo, a case the indigenes used against the image of non-indigenes as incapable in the Rivers State government…
The Church has no more credible reason to hold on to her prohibition of condoms. Onanism, on which the prohibition rests probatur ex scriptura is a blatant ignorance of the findings of science. It is not sperm that gives human life. It is the union of sperm and ovum…
Ever since President Goodluck Jonathan announced to his friends on Facebook that he was going to seek nomination of his party to run for president, the battle seemed to have been also transferred online. The missing link, however, remains the way many of the politicians who joined the social media bandwagon use such platforms to engage the voters…
They say it cannot happen here. President Goodluck Jonathan’s men told us after a Federal Executive Council deliberation that the Egypt-style revolution that began in Tunisia and has become a shooting war in Libya cannot happen in Nigeria because our country has a ‘constitutional order.’ Whatever that means…
Obasanjo can be likened to Hun Sen of Cambodia, who is seen as a complex personality: a charming diplomat, an eloquent poet, unforgiving to his enemies, ruthless in battle with a thirst for power but simple tastes…
It is given that the ability of any democratic government to deliver the concrete benefits of good governance to the citizens is determined by the smooth functioning of the executive, judicial and legislative arms of government. This assumption reinforces the theory of separation of the powers of the different arms of government to prevent arbitrariness, tyranny and recklessness…
Our subject matter is understandably a very serious one. And it brings to focus certain words that must clearly be understood before we go ahead in a serious exercise of writing and reading about the most important issue in time and all of eternity…