By Robert Egbe DESPITE THE millions of people its products kill every year, and the thousands more whose health is destroyed, the tobacco industry is aggressively lobbying governments and the public to embrace newer kinds of harmful tobacco products that it presents as “less harmful” or “safer” than traditional tobacco use. According to the Wo...
By Temitope Ajayi TWO DAYS after DeepSeek took the world by surprise, a Financial Times report warned that the West should be worried by how China appears to be leading the Artificial Intelligence race. Financial Times says the emergence of DeepSeek from the shadows, catching the West unawares, is a strong indication that China has […]...
By Pius Mordi BEFORE THE collapse of the naira precipitated by the economic reforms introduced by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law had revealed that a whopping N306 billion was paid to uniformed security men – Police, Army, Navy, Civil Defence, Federal Road Safety [&h...
By Olabode Akinwale WHEN ON the 30th of December 2024 the Ondo State Governor was signing the 2025 state appropriation bill into law at the Exco Chamber of the Governor Office, Alagbaka Akure, the state capital, he was very emphatic on his intentions for the good people of the state. The Governor, Hon., Lucky Aiyedatiwa […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE AS CHRISTIANS we are taught that if all else fails, we should try praise and worship! When prayer fails, try praise and worship! When fasting fails, try praise and worship! When vigil fails, try praise and worship! When giving, offering, first fruit, tithe and seed offering fail, try praise and worship! In […]
By Ogunlade Olamide and Esi-ife Arogundade AS WE step into a world increasingly defined by climate change extremes, the recent conclusion of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) that 2024 marks the warmest year yet is a formidable wake-up call for Nigeria and the rest of the world. Many were already bracing for this announcement, unders...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE HAVE YOU encountered officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency lately? They appear to have turned a new leaf! Is it a make-believe or is it for real? Is it fleeting or is it what the Lord has done, which that Christian song says shall be permanent? “It shall be permanent/Oh […]
By Oreva Godwin LET’s TALK about the alarming rate at which people are testing positive to HIV and the high rate of sexually transmitted diseases. Today, we shall examine why HIV can never reduce in our society but rather increase day by day. A lot of people keep asking if people are no longer scared […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE JOHN AZUKA-Mbata’s emergence as the President-General (we love big titles!) of Ohanaeze, the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, has again ignited the controversy of whether or not the Ikwerres, of whom Azuka-Mbata is one, are Igbo. If Ikwerres are not Igbo, why elect a non-Igbo to lead an exclusively Igbo organization as ...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu COLONIAL OCCUPATION and domination prospered by abducting and liquidating the most vocal Africans. Those whom it drove into exile were lucky. Sir Evelyn Baring invented the manual on this form of predation as governor of colonial Kenya for seven years until 1959. Six decades after independence, the man who rode to [&he...
