By Eze Jude . O

Your Eminences, Your Graces, Your Lordships,

It is with utmost regards to your highly placed ecclesiastical offices that I, a humble lay faithful of your flock put forward this piece in 'fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12).

By Ike Abonyi

"...Presidential politics has become a game of inches." - Steven Weber

In the 1980s when coups d'état were commonplace, once the rumour thickened, something would happen...either as a failed, successful or palace coup.

All that military officers were doing then was to position themselves to a time when a sitting government lost grip or when their popularity waned. Then they would strike. Often a bad situation in the polity was manipulated to enable action.

By Amb (Dr) Godknows Igali

In William Shakespeare's classic Julius Caesar, the chief protagonist, a Roman statesman and general boasted deafeningly to his wife Calpurnia and by extension to Cassius and Pompey, the other power brokers with whom he formed a triumvirate that "Of all the wonders that I have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, will come when it will come". So do society view the rather dreary phenomenon called death. But whenever it occurs, either for the youngest or oldest, all express a great "aww", instinctively.

By Eze Jude .O

By the reckoning of James Freeman Clarke: "A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. A statesman wishes to steer, while a politician is satisfied to drift."

By Sylvester Asoya

In Nigeria and other parts of Africa, Sweet Mother is regarded by many people as Africa’s sacred song. But there are also others who see this outstanding musical composition as the continent’s ultimate hymn of praise and reverence.

By Onjefu Okidu

Nigeria’s calumny campaigners got a brand new agenda recently when former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, in her usual mudslinging, ridiculously and shamefully stated on Channels TV that, “President Buhari sent the Kankara schoolboys on an excursion to terrorists.” Oby’s all negative vituperations on the President since 2015 is understandable and un-worrisome. But, very worrisome is the bandwagon effect her nefarious conversations are having on gullible Nigerians. To be sure, since she made that statement on Channels TV, a growing body of comments on the Kankara schoolboy's abduction has been as nefarious as hers.

By Amb Godknows Igali

On Friday, April 16, 2021, one of the fathers of Nigeria's Diplomatic Service, and early crafters of the country’s Foreign Policy, Ambassador Blessing Akporede Clark, marked his 91st birthday. Sandwiched between elder statesman, Chief EK Clark and his immediate younger brother, late playwright, Prof JP Clark, "BA" as his peers around the world know him, was born on that date in 1930 in Kiagbodo, which at the time was in Warri Province of then Western Region. Unlike his more media gripping siblings, this giant in global affairs, is conservative, taciturn, sober and restrained, even after exit from active public life.

By Femi Adesina @FemiAdesina

A quiet revolution took off on April 8, 2021, by 11.05 am. It was unheralded, without ostentation, almost unsung. But it was something that would have a great impact not only on today, but also on tomorrow, and the future.

By Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye (ICPC Chairman)

The death of Innocent Chukwuma hit the airwaves early on Easter Sunday, 4th April 2021. Coming after the sudden death of another illustrious activist, Yinka Odumakin on 2nd April 2021, news of the death of Innocent the next day suggested that fate was being unfair to Nigeria taking away two patriotic and eminent Nigerian activists - Odumakin on Friday and Innocent on Saturday. The sunset for both in a most inauspicious time and prime, the mid-50s.

By Steve Osuji

NOT MUCH BETTER THAN BUHARI:

What began as a crude joke for Nigerians is beginning to take a life its own: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for President in 2023. It's such a moment when you are torn between the two extreme emotions of tears and laughter. Is this how far Nigeria has evolved? You would moan bitterly? Then again you remember that this man could never win a presidential election in Nigeria even if he ran against himself; you would chuckle...

By Eze Jude . O

"Many a cross we bear is of our own manufacture; we made it by our sins. But the cross which the Savior carried was not His, but ours. One beam in contradiction to another beam was the symbol of our will in contradiction to His own. If Innocence itself took a Cross, then how shall we who are guilty complain against it?"_ -Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

By Eze Jude .O

The term vicious circle can be defined as a situation in which the solution to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one. In the art of philosophy and logic, it is also a fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.