By Eze Jude .O

There was dilemma around choosing a fitting title for today's edition of our weekly digest. The first instinct was to theme it "Shaka Momodu was right." The reason for that contemplation, you will discover as we muse along. The second was naming it "Tinubu proves critics right."

By Bolanle Bolawole

First, let us consider the cause or causes of the first two world wars that our world has witnessed. The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary but historians are agreed that there are at least five remote causes of the war.

By Samuel Igbetua (In FCT Abuja)

In spite of misgivings and low marks of the political class today, there are still men and women of honour and integrity that could be singled out in terms of moral uprightness and accomplishments over the years. There are still a handful of Nigerians who have demonstrated capacity, competence and sustained unblemished records of service to country and humanity.

By Anyim Pius Anyim

Wow! I can't find the words to express my joy. I turned 60 on the 19th of February last year. My family had planned to celebrate my 60th birthday in a big way but the Covid 19 pandemic got in the way.

By Mahmud Isa Yola

Attention:

1. All Drug Procurement Syndicates
2. All Drug Courier Syndicates
3. All Drug Distribution Syndicates
4. All Local Drug Merchandising Syndicates
5. All Members of Drug Cartels Operating in Nigeria

I felt compelled to write to apprise you of the exponential and steady spike in the number of people arrested for drug trafficking-related offences; the rising frequency of illicit drug seizures across the country, which I am sure you are finding difficult to comprehend; and the renewed anti-drug effort in Nigeria, which has already had a bloody impact on the Nigerian illicit drug trade.

By Bola Bolawole

Celebrated English writer, William Shakespeare, said all's well that ends well; so it is with the Olubadan chieftaincy succession row now that the impasse that submerged the age-old succession process has been broken – seemingly!

Azu Ishiekwene

Abba Kyari’s response in July after the US Attorney General’s Office Central District of California issued a warrant of arrest against him following his indictment in a case of internet fraud involving Ramon Abbas, otherwise called Hushpuppi, was the earliest warning sign that the Nigerian end of this affair might descend into a farce.

By Anyim Pius Anyim

The bail granted the Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Ebonyi State, Nwoba Chika Nwoba, calls for, not only celebration, but deep thoughts about the danger democracy is running into in Ebonyi State.

By Abia Onyike

PREAMBLE:

On the 10th of February, 2022, some of my friends and political associates drew my attention to a news story that was trending in the Opera News platform. The title of the news which was presented as features was titled, “Tension in Ebonyi over Governorship zoning.”

By Celestine Okafor @CeleOkaf11

February 19, indeed, remains a special day in the life of Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, a former Senate President of Nigeria and ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), and also a holder of Nigeria's second highest national honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON).

Azu Ishiekwene

There's a severe, earth-baking drought in the Horn of Africa. About 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti are in the grip of acute hunger. The rains have failed in three consecutive years, prompting the driest conditions experienced in the region in 41 years.

By Eze Jude

• "God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and treat one another in a spirit of brotherhood."
• Pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world (Gaudium et spes).

Nigerian Catholic church has seen some apostatic scandals in the past decade with Mbise Diocese' rejection of Rt. Rev. Dr. Peter Okpaleke as their bishop, on the ground that he is not being their kinsman opening the doorway.