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Thursday, 02 June 2022 06:28

Has Buhari won or lost the corruption war? - Bola Bolawole

One of the three pillars on which the retired Major-General Muhammdu Buhari hung his return to power as president and commander-in-chief in 2015 was that he would fight and uproot corruption. The other two were that he would end insurgency and insecurity as well as revamp the economy. As the nation begins the processes of electing Buhari’s successor, it is apt to find out how well or otherwise has Buhari fared. This is the task attempted here today by a conscientious Nigerian academic and public affairs analyst, Babafemi Badejo, who is not new to readers of this column. Titled ”Our…

Wednesday, 01 June 2022 06:09

The war in Ukraine may be impossible to stop. And the U.S. deserves much of the blame - Christopher Caldwell

In the Paris daily Le Figaro this month, Henri Guaino, a top adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was president of France, warned that Europe’s countries, under the shortsighted leadership of the United States, were “sleepwalking” into war with Russia. Guaino was borrowing a metaphor that the historian Christopher Clark used to describe the origins of World War I. Naturally, Guaino understands that Russia is most directly to blame for the present conflict in Ukraine. It was Russia that massed its troops on the frontier last fall and winter and — having demanded from NATO a number of Ukraine-related security…

Tuesday, 31 May 2022 06:31

Rivers of Mugus - Ena Ofugara

Wike fought like a lion, Wike this this that. Mtchewww!!! Wike took all your state money for healthcare and roads and pension and entered a fight he will never win. Where did a lawyer without a chamber… with no known legal wins get the money he has been spending on a wild goose chase? What is his job outside of politics? It is the money that would have built your father and alcoholic brother 5 state-of-the art dialysis clinics all over Rivers State. Wike fought like a lion!!! WILL YOU KEEP KWAYET!!! Taking your money to run for office makes…

Monday, 30 May 2022 06:18

For Olisa Agbakoba – before the onset of autumn - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

As Nigeria’s military ruler, Olusegun Obasanjo, who retired from the army as Head of State and a four-star General on the last day of September 1979, established what he later described to the New York Times over one decade later as “a farm settlement…., which aimed at the increase of food production.” It was located in an island in the Atlantic Ocean called Ita-Oko, some 100 kilometres off the coast of Lagos. Curiously for a farm settlement, Ita-Oko, in the words of the General, “aimed at decriminalizing people – Nigerians and non-Nigerians – who refused to work, even though work…

Monday, 30 May 2022 06:16

Avoiding the road to Kigali - Bola Bolawole

I read the headlines of the story of a woman who allegedly was murdered together with her children, reportedly somewhere in the eastern parts of the country but I never really read the story. The past few weeks have been hectic for me and I have been “behind the news”, so to say. So you can imagine my shock when an elder I respect so much forwarded the material you are about to read to me. I suspect it was meant as an accusation that those who screamed from the rooftop when Deborah Samuel, a Christian, was cruelly murdered in…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:46

Mama Igosun resumes the offensive - Tatalo Alamu

A day after Jide Sanwo-Olu, the urbane, even-tempered and level-headed governor of Lagos State, announced a total ban on Okada motorcycle drivers, yours sincerely woke up to a fearsome din of cheers and applause coming from the street below. Bleary-eyed, Snooper frantically pulled the curtains. The whole scene was hazy and blurry at first. In the distance and amidst the total confusion, one could only make out the half-crazed dustbin woman of Sierra-Leonean ancestry screaming on top of her voice in wild excitement. “Oga, oga!!! You still dey sleep? Something done dey happening oo. Mama done do am again. He…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:45

As dollars elected, created mannequins at party primaries - Festus

While touring Northern Nigerian provinces in the 1950s to canvass for votes, Ahmadu Bello, the great-great grandson of Uthman dan Fodio and Premier of the Northern region, used to have his flowing robes stuffed with banknotes which he then distributed to the electorate. For the Sardauna, that munificence took the place of campaigning. This was aptly captured by John Meagher, in his ‘The Establishment of Military Government in Nigeria’ of February 16, 1966, with additional information from the National Archives and Research Administration (NARA) in Maryland, USA. So, on May 29, 2023, rather than victors in the All Progressives Congress…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:44

Standing on the promises of God - Taiwo Akinola

Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant ~ 1 Kings 8:56. Introduction: The Bible is replete with great and precious prophetic promises, which cover all aspects of the human life (2 Peter 1:3). These promises come in various formats. Some are spiritually coded and require spiritual eyes to decipher them, while some others are just plain and simple enough to personalize. Anyhow, there is always the need to…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:43

Article of faith: Avoiding generational curses (2) - Femi Aribisala

Sickness is a curse of the law arising from the sin of disobedience. God says: “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26). Death is also a curse. God told Adam: “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of…

Friday, 27 May 2022 06:46

Journey to Grenada and reparations for slavery - Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria’s spectacular crises in almost every facet of its national life are inescapable. They cling like your skin. And for your sanity, you must detox from time to time. I hope this trip to Grenada, through Afghanistan, helps. Instead of writing about killings of the most bestial variety up and down the country, an economy on life support, insecurity, ASUU strike, men fighting for Allah and those defending them, the politics of 2023 that has left even politicians confused and enthroned delegates as royalty, I’ve decided to comment on a topic in which I recently renewed interest. In a recent…

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Friday, 27 May 2022 06:45

Now that husbands are scarce commodities - Michael West

A woman approached her pastor for prayers concerning marriage because she's agitated as delay in getting a man was no longer taken lightly. While on her knees, the pastor asked why she wanted to marry. The question was rather funny as the woman and I burst into ribs cracking laughter. He went further to say "Why do you want to enter into ‘problem’ while you're doing well on your own? Are you not aware that several married women are planning to exit their marriages because of daunting challenges they're facing in it? You better stay calm and serve God peacefully…

Wednesday, 25 May 2022 06:33

Goodnight our Sango, the ultimate revolutionary - Lanre Arogundade

Segun Sango (born Segun Aderemi) wrote his own epitaph. He dreamt the working class socialist revolution; he spoke and worked for it; and he lived an exemplanary life of a true revolutionist. Both in theory and praxis, he was a Nigerian version of truly dedicated world-class revolutionaries who built cadres across generations. A man of steel, he was strong in illness, such that he lived for years with debilitating illness. But the unquantifiable love and care of his wife, a good and kind hearted comrade in her own special regard, was also a most significant factor. Thank you Tinu. Yes,…

Wednesday, 25 May 2022 06:31

So, who made who? - Bola Bolawole

The debate is on as to who made who! Did you make me or it was me who made you? Is this a case of the right hand washing the left and the left washing the right? Is this a symbiosis of what the Yoruba call "owo omode o to pepe, t'agbalagba o wo akeregbe"? Or "omode gbon, agba gbon la fi da Ile- Ife"? Let's take a look at a few of the specifics. If you were a generator repairer in Alimosho local government area of Lagos State and someone picks you up from there and makes you a…

Monday, 23 May 2022 06:21

Still on Deborah Samuel - Bola Bolawole

Someone said when it comes to religion, some Nigerians fight for God but when it comes to their own livelihood and fundamental human rights, they ask God to fight for them! Sarcastic but how true! You may also have come across another post that analysed the difference between knowledge economy and religion economy. The Black man’s economy is the religion economy while the White man’s economy is the knowledge economy. One of the philosophers of Negritude and former president of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor, says reason is Hellenic (White or European) while emotion is African (Black). But Aime Cesaire, another…

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