By Azu Ishiekwene

The statement by the leader of the Yoruba Cultural Group, Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo, that the South East should get the next turn at the presidency has ruffled quite some feathers.

By Michael West

The incidents of failed marriages abroad are raising so much concern back home in Africa especially in Ghana and Nigeria. Most of the affected marriages were taken abroad in quests for better opportunities but which could not survive due to Western culture of equality and gender rights laws. In this write-up, Mrs. Alice Olusola, a writer and family affairs counsellor, highlighted the risks involved in exporting troubled marriages. Please read on:

By Jude Eze

Every meticulous students of global history must come across certain informal cliche that all Popes who left remarkable impression and brought enviable reforms to Christianity and sublimely impacted our world were either those who were never desperate to be elected, or those who were not popular among the electoral college prior to conclaves.

By Bola Bolawole

Abram (later Abraham), the father of faith and the progenitor of Judaism, Islam and Christianity married more than one wife. He married the wife of his youth, Sarai (later Sarah) and when Sarah offered him her maidservant, Hagar, he took her and bore a child, Ishmael, through her.

By Chooks Oko

It is no longer news that President Buhari will visit Ebonyi State Thursday. It is one visit that the good people of the state has been looking forward to. The preparations are upbeat with a palpable feeling of fulfillment laced with an uncanny sense of satisfied accomplishment.

By Azu Ishiekwene

I think the most frequently asked question today is, who will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari? With over 35 aspirants openly declaring their interest as of today, a few still in the closet and more coming out, the field has never looked more crowded.

By Bola Bolawole

I do not think it is the wish or will of God for anyone to tarry a minute longer than necessary in an abusive or life-threatening marriage or relationship but His admonition to us is to flee from every appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22).

By Hassan Gimba

This is the concluding part of this write up, having done parts one and two a few weeks earlier.

“When that is not the case, the victim’s faith in his country gets punctured. With the country’s might demystified in his eyes, he can fantasize about the power and invincibility of his captors.

By Eze Jude. O

Two distinct events of the past two weeks were quite oxymoronic, as they were typically spectacular and unimpressive at the same time.

By Onjefu Okidu

Insincere people grow in insincerity especially when operating within a context of stymied socio-political atrophy. In same vein, sincere people advance sincerity when operating in same context, even in worst contexts.

By Bolanle Bolawole

The 2023 presidential race, which many predictions have described as a race to nowhere, gathers momentum all the same! The theatrics of Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, who ran round the field in an orchestrated show of fitness as he made his presidential declaration, added drama – and distraction - to the race last week! But don't mind Amaechi; if fitness is all that is required, then, we should head to Oyingbo or Oke-Odo market in Lagos to scout for presidential candidates!

By Bola Bolawole

The sad and very unfortunate death, in controversial circumstances, of the popular Nigerian gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, has, once again, set tongues wagging about the vexed issue of domestic violence occasioning bodily harm, even death, in marriages and the views and position of Nigeria’s usually conservative Church fathers on marriage or marital vows often couched as Church doctrine or God’s position on marriage.