The Lion of Apomu has a strong love theme spiced with honour and gallantry. Now a medical doctor and Creative artist, John Aina's mother supported him when, as a five-year-old child, he expressed his desire to write to his beloved aunt studying in England. His passion for writing grew with John writing comics while in primary school. His bosom friend and classmate was a budding graphic artist who illustrated the characters.Years later John won a prize for a short story titled Cocai...

"ROBADIUM"; was a newly discovered lethal element causing flu, multiple organ damage and cancer. The results of these findings were to be released by Dr. J. Andre and his group of Scientists at an international press conference in Geneva. One week before the Press Conference, Dr. Andre and his team were killed in an automobile accident. The police suspected foul play but could not prove anythingDr. Wole Omotola, a notable Nigerian and internationally acclaimed Pharmacist, tried to d...

La idea de Progreso ha vuelto a ser desde hace tiempo objeto de discusión. Por una parte es criticada por pensadores que se definen como multiculturalistas y decolonialistas, y que subrayan la división tajante que estableció entre culturas más avanzadas y otras poco o nada civilizadas, observando que esto permitió desentenderse del sufrimiento causado por el supuesto progreso, que al final terminaba siendo eurocéntrico. Por otra parte están quienes, aportando una gran cantidad de datos, no...

¿Qué hace que el amor dure? ¿Existe una fórmula para construir un amor duradero? Los doctores John Gottman y Julie Schwartz Gottman, los terapeutas de pareja por antonomasia, nos enseñan a construir una relación duradera en solo 7 días.¿Qué hace que el amor dure? ¿Por qué algunas parejas se mantienen juntas para siempre y otras se separan? ¿Existe una fórmula para construir un amor duradero? ¿Cómo podemos reavivar y renovar nuestra relación en solo siete días?...

In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle,...

Contemporary Security Governance in Nigeria: Themes and Perspectives examines the theory, practice, and challenges of contemporary security governance in Nigeria and argues for the prioritization of security governance in state affairs. Al Chukwuma Okoli, Folahanmi Aina, and the contributors address the role of security in state steering, the role of the state in security, the conceptual and theoretical frames underpinning contemporary discourse on security governance, and the cur...

In Nigeria, armed banditry has emerged as a contemporary threat to national security. Commentators and scholars have repeatedly pointed to overlapping foci such as herders-farmers' conflicts, warlordism, ungoverned spaces, transnational criminal networks, and the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) from Libya as dynamics influencing the current security dilemma in Nigeria. The emergence of armed banditry has triggered the prevalence of everyday killings, kidnapping for ran...