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Monday, 21 October 2024 04:42

Theresa Chikeka: The retired judge who is chief judge of Imo State? - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The judicial career of Francis Chukwuma Abosi was supposed to last only seven years. In the event, he did 12 and may well have reached 20 years if events had not intervened. In his 12th year as a judge in April 2020, while serving as the Acting President of the Customary Court of Appeal of Imo State in South-East Nigeria, the National Judicial Council (NJC) mercifully ended it all. When he attended the Nigerian Law School, as all Nigerian lawyers must, Francis Abosi deposed that he was born in November 1950. On his appointment as a judge in 2008, therefore,…

Sunday, 20 October 2024 04:52

The President is a sick man - Festus Adedayo

On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’ It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk and off-the-cuff jetting out of Aso Rock Villa like a wandering evil spirit. At the drop of a hat, Buhari flew to the United Kingdom to attend to his health. But for the removal of Buhari’s name and its substitution with ‘Bola Tinubu,’ this piece is almost a complete cyclostyle of that Buhari piece. In 1849, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a French writer, pioneered a phrase which has become…

Sunday, 20 October 2024 04:51

Faithfulness: The pathway to divine approval - Taiwo Akinola

And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own ~ Luke 16:12? Introduction: Everyone loves to associate and have dealings with faithful people. Sadly, this attribute is fast becoming old-fashioned and neglected everywhere in many quarters of the world today. Thus, David both exclaimed and lamented that godly men are disappearing and the faithful failing among the children of men (Psalm 12:1-2). Faithfulness means staying with or supporting a particular person, organization, belief or cause. It necessitates having staying powers, the ability to keep at a task,…

Sunday, 20 October 2024 04:49

Article of Faith: God did it - Femi Aribisala

When I met the Lord, I became suddenly open to the spirit world. Jesus said to me: “Femi, blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear.” (Matthew 13:16). However, this was double-edged. I could see and hear both the positive and the negative spiritual. After a few months, the pastor in my church came to see me. He had a dream in which the devil was laughing at me, boasting that he would drive me mad. The Lord asked me to wait on Him for three days because He had something to reveal to me.…

Friday, 18 October 2024 04:47

Does it still make sense to trust Tinubu? - Azu Ishiekwene

This was tough to write. My heart resisted it, but I yielded to my head. The petrol in my car, a 2.0-litre 2012 Tokunbo Camry, was at half-tank the day before writing. When pump prices went from 195/litre to 617/litrebetween May and June 2023, I parked my SUV and, despite being occasionally mistaken for an Uber driver, opted for the saloon, which, as of the third fuel price increase by September this year, cost about 65k to fill up. After petrol pump price went up again by about 15 percent last week, it would now cost about 80k to fill…

Thursday, 17 October 2024 05:04

The beneficence of Emmanuel Ayoola, the anti-corruption czar - Folu Olamiti

It was happenstance I least expected that Monday morning of 1999. I had dressed up to go to work as Editor of Nigerian Tribune from my new home on the outskirts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Moments later, Emmanuel Ayoola, retired Justice of the Supreme Court, drove in, in his yellow 19th century Mercedes Benz car. He alighted to discuss heartily with one of my neighbours. He was obviously in an expansive mood that morning. I greeted him with reverence he deserved as a man of his stature and standing in legal jurisprudence and society in general. "Are you…

Thursday, 17 October 2024 05:03

Seyi Tinubu and the love that money buys - Abimbola Adelakun

By now, you have probably seen Seyi, the president’s son, at presidential meetings and functions where he, ideally, has no business. Remember, his father had to ban him from attending the weekly meetings of the Federal Executive Council, saying his access was “undue.” Undeterred, Seyi still showed up at the swearing-in ceremony of Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. While his meddlesomeness has spurred some people to wonder if he has any other job besides being “daddy’s boy,” I have also wondered if he is just another self-unaware member of the Nigerian political class or is intentionally shaming…

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 05:04

Regionalism: The Yoruba-Igbo indigenous African paw in the bottle - Justice Faloye

Restructuring agitators currently pushing for regionalism, as opposed to the 2014 Confab Resolutions of "States as federating units", are either ignorant of the history of regionalism, driven by prebendalist or internal colonialistic or separatist motives. This will set Nigeria back in the quest for representative democracy for every one of its 371 ethnicities regardless of size, without which the country will continue to be destabilized and unable to act as a nation. Some actually see regionalism as a step towards the fulfilment of their separatist dreams to opt out of Nigeria. The British used regionalism to put a knife to…

Tuesday, 15 October 2024 04:41

AI is a rare bright spot for global governance - Ian Bremmer & Marietje Schaake

Multilateralism has fallen on hard times lately, especially at the United Nations. The UN Security Council couldn’t stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon remain elusive, and subsequent COP summits have failed to spur enough concrete action to meet global climate targets. Not only are the UN’s own Sustainable Development Goals off-track; in many cases, progress toward meeting them has reversed. The UN’s foundational commitments to peace, security, and cooperation feel very foreign at a time when multiple wars are raging, protectionism is on the rise, and the world is splitting into rival blocs. But despite this…

Monday, 14 October 2024 04:37

Egbetokun lo’kan - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In 1982, on the foothills of the road to Nigeria’s 1983 general elections, it was quite clear that the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN) had no plans to declare a vacancy in any significant political office around the country. Instead, they seemed bent on consolidating power in order to avoid a remake of the judicial nail-biter that yielded the presidency to Shehu Shagari in 1979. The essential party positions featured a stellar cast. Adisa Akinloye, the party chairman, was a veteran lawyer with political experience predating Nigeria’s independence. The energetic Suleiman Takuma ran the party secretariat and Trade Minister,…

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Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:46

Tinubu, Remi, and Akpabio mocking Nigerians' hardship - Farooq A. Kperogi

The torment of incessantly escalating petrol prices and the consequent surge in the cost of everything have plunged Nigerians into a precipitous decline in quality of life. This dire situation is exacerbated by insensitive, almost mocking remarks from those responsible for inflicting this pain. President Bola Tinubu, aptly nicknamed “T-Pain,” recently stated from London that Nigerians would, in the future, appreciate the wisdom of his “reforms.” Such a statement is both callous and mendacious. It is callous because these “reforms” are literally destroying the livelihoods of millions and causing the deaths of many. What possible benefit could the deceased derive…

Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:45

Examining the President’s T-Pain alias - Festus Adedayo

In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable the walls of its captivity are, the moment it is summoned, the spirit comes out and grants the wishes of the one who invoked it. Trust them for their gift of incredible ingenuity, in the thick of their daily pain, Nigerians trip above their existential woes to summon the genius within them. Their latest invocation is a perfect-fit moniker which they affix to their president’s lapel. To them, their president’s diverse self-procured prefixes – Asiwaju, Jagaban, etc –…

Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:43

The bliss and the dilemma of personal choices - Taiwo Akinola

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live ~ Deuteronomy 30:19. Introduction: Excellence in life is all about trade secrets. The more you trade with them, the more excellent you become. All who hope, therefore, to enjoy secure access to a lifeline of breakthrough and fulfillment on earth must enthusiastically search out noble Biblical secrets, and especially engage them in their day-to-day living (Deuteronomy 29:29). God’s kingdom principles constitute the major keys in the…

Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:42

Article of Faith: Guarding our hearts (2) - Femi Aribisala

God, Himself, resides in the heart of the believer in the person of the Holy Spirit. By keeping your heart, you are keeping God. Solomon says: “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23). Guard your heart against what? Guard your heart against sensualism, covetousness, materialism, greed, pride, bitterness, anxiety, rebellion, defiance, and self-pity. Many things are vying for your heart’s affection: the desire for money, lust, envy, pride, and self-promotion. If you are not careful, the basic desire of your heart will switch from pleasing God to pleasing yourself. In…

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