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Thursday, 13 March 2025 04:42

Women too should speak like men - Abimbola Adelakun

In the latest plot twist in the case involving Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, it turned out that the head of the Ethics Committee, Neda Imasuen, who read out the punitive statement against Akpoti-Uduaghan has a soiled professional record. Yes, the man who claimed a woman had to be punished for “bringing the Senate’s presiding office and the entire Senate into public opprobrium” is a walking bag of ethical violations, alleged fraud, and fugitive? Who could have thought? First, I must confess a grudging admiration for Imasuen. It takes chutzpah to speak so self-righteously about a colleague whose…

Wednesday, 12 March 2025 04:34

Europe finally gets the US memo: Pony up and partner in your own defense - Rich Lowry

Europe has been warned, and warned again. Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears — over the Trump administration’s tough words about its deficient military spending and its moves to begin negotiating on its own with Russia over the Ukraine war. In response, French President Emanuel Macron called an emergency summit of European leaders, which his advisers insisted wasn’t an emergency summit at all, but merely a rapidly assembled informal meeting. Whatever the nomenclature, there are signs that Europe is beginning to get the memo — or,…

Tuesday, 11 March 2025 04:42

IBB: The complexity and limits of power - Wale Are Olaitan

Ordinarily, I would have thought that I could number Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) as one of my elderly friends because of the intellectual engagements we used to have, in company of my bosom friend and brother, Mohammed Kuta Yahaya, especially because of and as he put on display his penchant for deep intellectual forays and the way he appreciated intelligence, if not for his abiding personal wiles making for extreme caution and the inability to ever lay down his guards for you to know when you have truly crossed into his inner circles. The same way it could be said…

Monday, 10 March 2025 04:44

In Rivers State, a supreme iniquity? - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The political control of the resources of the territory known as Rivers State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been a site of curious jurisprudence since the Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate, Harry Johnston, procured the judicial liquidation of King Jaja of Opobo in December 1887 in Accra, present capital of Ghana. The charge against King Jaja was the violation of a treaty obligation to assist the British “in the execution of such duties as may be assigned.” At the end of proceedings, which lasted less than one day, before a forum described by Elvar Ingimundarsson as a “Kangaroo…

Sunday, 09 March 2025 04:29

Ramadan: An obligation that cannot be compelled - Majeed Dahiru

The shutting down of schools on the order of Hisbah (the morality police) in some predominantly Muslim states of northern Nigeria in the month of Ramadan, is a clear indication that Islamism has ascended new heights in the Muslim north. The entrenchment of a range of religiously inspired political ideologies that hold the belief that Islam should influence the socio-political and economic system of public administration (Islamism) in the Muslim north has resulted in the imposition of Sharia laws in the region and establishment of Hisbah to banish vice and enforce virtue. As the Nigerian state is increasingly weakened by…

Sunday, 09 March 2025 04:28

Abounding in fruitfulness and supernatural harvest - Taiwo Akinola

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt ~ Amos 9:13. Introduction: God didn’t plan for us to live just a normal, ordinary, natural life, but a supernatural life of harvests, full of relevance, significance, signs and wonders (John 10:10). Supernatural living is meant to be the norm for the children of God. At a time the people of Israel were in bondage in Egypt, and for about 400 years, it was…

Sunday, 09 March 2025 04:27

Article of Faith: Do not lean on your own understanding - Femi Aribisala

Jesus used five loaves of bread to feed 5,000 people. He then used seven loaves to feed 4,000. Nevertheless, instead of reaching the conclusion that because of Him they would never again have to worry about bread, His disciples were still concerned when they forgot to bring bread with them on a trip. He rebuked them, saying: “Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?” (Mark 8:17-18). From Jesus’…

Thursday, 06 March 2025 04:31

Akpabio finally stops hiding behind women - Abimbola Adelakun

On Wednesday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio finally defended himself since Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan accused him of sexual harassment. This is not the first time he has been accused of such, but this instance feels different. He denied the accusation by alluding to his record of awards as a “gender-friendly” governor and pointing out his cherished personal relationships with women that put him beyond such impropriety. Good for him, but there is also enough record of his public conduct to consider a pattern of his behaviour when dealing with women. For instance, in 2020, when former Managing Director of…

Tuesday, 04 March 2025 04:56

Rubio and the polished face of Trump's government - Wale Are Olaitan

I have always liked the polished demeanour of Senator Marco Rubio. Not for him the belligerence of some others who see themselves as avatars of the Republican crusade against the woke people in the progressive Democratic camp who must be shouted down with all the vigour that could be mustered. And I do not think or believe that this mild and milder disposition detracts in any significant sense from his convictions about the Republican and conservative principles and values which he shares and tries to embody publicly. Rather he comes through as a more thoughtful person, not only desirous of…

Monday, 03 March 2025 04:40

This Sentinel at the door of Anambra State must succeed - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, South-East Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed about 3,000 killings in this theatre from open source records but unofficial estimates suggest that there may be up to five killings missed for each counted. The worst of the killings have occurred since 2019 and the worst hit state in the zone over that period is Anambra. Many erroneously date the origins of this to the radicalisation of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)…

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Sunday, 02 March 2025 04:48

The Trump-Zelensky-Vance spat, unspeakable! - Femi Mimiko

It is unheard of, for heads of state to turn on each other PUBLICLY in this manner! Such disagreements are tolerable behind the curtains, certainly not in the full glare of the cameras. And whatever his limitations - and they are many - Zelensky remains a sitting President. It is absolutely out of place in the world of diplomacy, for a VP - even of a super power - to address him so rudely, in the manner Vance did, again, PUBLICLY! These people do not have class, no panache. The optics, very bad for both Ukraine and the US. Putin…

Sunday, 02 March 2025 04:46

The primacy and the supremacy of wisdom - Taiwo Akinola

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding ~ Proverbs 4:7. Preamble: We live today in an era of wisdom! Knowledge is rapidly expanding at an unprecedented rate; information is now abundant and readily accessible in all areas of human endeavor, especially with the breathtaking advancements in artificial intelligence. However, whereas we’re making astronomical progress in expanding the bodies of knowledge, true wisdom is being relegated to the background and remains indiscernible, unrecognized and unacknowledged by many people in many quarters of the world. Too often, our decisions are driven by ignorance, queer…

Sunday, 02 March 2025 04:45

Article of Faith: The God who is not good all the time (1) - Femi Aribisala

Nobody spoils a man’s life like Jesus. Jesus is a killer of all worldly joy. God’s attitude to the world is often lost on many. God hates the world’s system. The world hated Jesus and killed him. Therefore, anyone who is a lover of pleasure; anyone who likes this world, becomes an enemy of God. Accordingly, James asks: “You adulterers! Don’t you realise that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.” (James 4:4). Paul agrees: “She…

Friday, 28 February 2025 04:40

Babangida’s long journey to sorry - Azu Ishiekwene

You cannot quarrel about how a man tells his story. It is his business. However, the pseudo-autobiography of the former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, is more than the retired general telling a story of his own life. A Journey in Service is a long, tortuous journey to penitence, which arrives at its destination, if it does at all, leaving its memory behind. After 32 years of deflecting, dissembling, dodging and denial, the former military president finally gets as close as possible to remorse, then stops short of saying sorry for his betrayal of his country by blaming several dead and…

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