The news of the gruesome murder of more than 100 worshippers in the town of Owo and in Ondo State of Nigeria is unprecedented going by how dastardly and barbaric the incident was. The gunmen invaded the church and shot sporadically and used explosives against the worshippers who gathered at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, to mark the Pentecost day. As heart-wrenching and devastating the incident is, reacting to this magnitude of...

The news of the barbaric and dastardly acts, namely the New York/Buffalo market shooting and the Texas elementary school mass shooting, has gone viral even in the minds of people agitating questions. The objectives were the same but they contrast each other in the identities of both the shooters and the victims. The objective was to terrorize and kill, and that is clear. Where the two events contrast themselves also leaves much...

A white gunman motivated by hate and dressed in tactical gear killed 10 people and wounded three others Saturday, May 14, 2022, at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket. The suspect, an 18-year-old man, shot 13 people — 11 of whom are Black and two who are White — at the Tops Friendly Market. Saturday, May 14, fits in for description as another day of sorrows and mourning in the history of America...

As much as it is in the Constitution of the land that life is sacrosanct and blasphemous utterances punishable under the law, it is unimaginable and barbaric how a group of students would, for any reason under the sun, burn a fellow student alive all in the name of using derogatory words against the prophet of the Muslim religion. This incident happened on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at the Shehu Shagari College...

The climate change is scary with no hope of successfully combatting the foreseeable problems. A lot has been said about this subject in relation to the causes, effects, and possible solutions. Nonetheless, the more we talk about it, the more we feel indifferent with regard to what we as a people and the relevant government agencies are expected to do. I want to believe that science has, to a large extent, while...

The United Nations chief scribe and Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres was in Nigeria on a two-day working visit between the 2nd and the 3rd of May, 2022. This visit was the first time that the Secretary- General of the United Nations visited Nigeria, and the visit is significant in so many ways among which is the period that the country of Nigeria is in in terms of political uncertainty, which is a direct...

Are the Yoruba nation and Biafra republic agitators in Nigeria rebels with a cause? To answer this question, we need first and foremost to know who the agitators are. The agitators, who are prominent among others as we know today, are those of the Yoruba and Igbo extractions. There are other ethnic minorities who also have a reason to want to detach themselves from the union called Nigeria but whose voices are...

The world order is gradually deteriorating into a disorder. Of what importance, for God’s sake, is an organization that was created and saddled with the responsibility of preventing and ending wars If what goes on right now in Ukraine as well as in Palestine cannot be brought to a permanent conclusion? There is no difference between the act of invasion and occupation except that one precedes the other. Nevertheless, both are evils...

The idea of democracy being the best system of government is becoming more of rhetoric than a reality. Cognizant of the fact that there is no system of government that is perfect, nonetheless, any system that does not provide dividends that are capable of making life comfortable and meaningful to the citizenry is far from being suitable, let alone being perfect. We are seeing many countries of the world who are identified...