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Monday, 23 May 2022 06:17

2023: Let’s look to the Northeast - Hassan Gimba

As parties are getting set to produce their candidates, we feel the need to reproduce this write-up, first published on October 18 last year. If I were to be as sentimental as people are, I would say the Northeast, my zone, must produce the president in 2023. Many people fight for their people, region, zone or state to produce the president for various reasons. Reasons may range from the fact that a president attracts some goodies to his area. Ministers and other chief executives fall over themselves to site projects where the president comes from. Captains of industry, too, are…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:32

In time of crisis: Civilian and soldier - Wole Soyinka

Ibrahim Attahiru would be immensely pleased and appreciative if he could become aware of another passing being commemorated today, indeed this very moment. The connection is that the late Tony Uranta, whose week-long remembrance rites have also commenced in Lagos, and Opobo, shared an article of faith with the late General, namely, that the sustainable security of society is crucially dependent on a tripod whose three legs are: the People, the Army and the government. Thus, the weakness or flaws in any one leg leads to the collapse of society. The mandatory implication of this, in practical terms, is that…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:30

And Baba Lekki explodes… - Tatalo Alamu

Accosted by a luckless journalist after storming out on the communiqué drafting committee of a new group calling itself Referendum Now, Baba Lekki was full of bile and choleric rage. “Baba, how do you see the pardon of convicted political office holders?” the journalist demanded. “Pardon me!!” the old codger snarled as he shambled away. “How do you see the state of the country?” the journalist demanded. “The country is in quite a state”, the old man growled. “But Itse Sagay said there is nothing wrong with the pardon”, the old hack noted. “You see, Itse has run into a…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:28

APC, PDP, the brass bell and spirit of Godwin Odiye - Festus Adedayo

The story of football dribbling wizard, Godwin Odiye, is told almost like a legend in Nigerian football. A former Nigerian international defender, Odiye’s football career began to luster when he signed on to play with the third division league side, Nestle and thereafter, National Bank of Lagos. While he featured in the Nigerian national football team that played FIFA World Cup qualifying matches and the 1976 and 1980 African Cup of Nations finals, Odiye’s football achievements paled into insignificance when put beside a 1977 calamity that his foot wrought on the field of play. Gradually, all his remarkable footballing sensations,…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:27

How to enjoy overflowing harvests even in a barren land - Taiwo Akinola

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great ~ Genesis 26: 12-13. Introduction: The plan of God for the righteous is verily good in all contents (Jeremiah 29:11). God didn’t plan for us to live just an ordinary, natural life, but a supernatural life of overflowing harvests, full of relevance, significance, signs and wonders (Proverbs 28:20). Yes indeed, supernatural living is meant to be the norm for God’s children (Philippians 4:19). Harvest time comes…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:25

Article of faith: Avoiding generational curses (1) - Femi Aribisala

God says He visits the sins of the father upon the children in the Ten Commandments: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love…

Friday, 20 May 2022 06:36

Yeshua is not a prophet; He is God! - Femi Fani-Kayode

The greatest insult that you can give a Christian is to tell him that Jesus (Yeshua) is not God. When you say that you are denying the very essence of His being and equating Him to man. This is a red line for us but it is crossed every day yet we take it in our stride. We do not kill or threaten to kill because of it and neither do we show our pain when others deny Him. That does not mean that your lack of understanding of our faith or your denial of our beliefs does not hurt…

Friday, 20 May 2022 06:35

Deborah: Victim of WhatsApp rule violators - Azu Ishiekwene

Parents, students, and indeed anyone with a conscience is still shocked at the killing of Deborah Yakubu in Sokoto over allegations of blasphemy. The brutal termination of the life of a promising young Nigerian in a school, will again pass with lamentations and condemnations as has become the norm, but most likely, without the consolation that justice would be served. As we flip over this page and move on, we would most likely overlook the real problem that led to this tragedy. The small cause, the little speck, that has produced a big effect, an explosion and other unintended consequences.…

Friday, 20 May 2022 06:34

Helping lonely, asexual older adults in quandary - Michael West

One of the shortest routes to a debilitating health condition, depression and sudden death is loneliness. The condition is exacerbated if the sufferer, in their 50s upward, live asexual for too long due to psychological and emotional aloofness propelled by feelings of forlornity. Unfortunately, not a few of such withdrawn, reclusive and introverted melancholic have ended their lives on sad note of suicide and sudden death as a result. We are social beings, wired and configured to socialize. Self ostracization is antithetical to communal lifestyle and interactive existential living. The spiraling figure of older adults who conditioned themselves to loneliness…

Thursday, 19 May 2022 06:21

My encounter with Ahmed Idris, Buhari’s AGF - Sam Amadi

There is nothing better than due process and the rule of law for the stability of society. They are better than charism and even spartan lifestyle. Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is now officially the most corrupt in the history of modern Nigeria. This is the administration of a man who built all his reputation on anti-corruption. What happened? You will get the answer if you consider the story of the current Accountant General of the Federal, Ahmed Idris. At the early months of the Buhari administration, I was still the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).…

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Wednesday, 18 May 2022 06:22

When men were men - Femi Fani-Kayode

The late Sani Abacha, who was Nigeria’s Head of State from 1993 till 1998, did something that I will always respect him for. He ordered the execution of a small group of religious bigots and fanatics who orchestrated the beheading of a Christian trader from Benue state by the name of Gideon Akaluka, in Kano for allegedly "desecrating the Koran". The conspirators and orchestrators were 9 in number. A few days after Abacha gave his orders 8 of them were apprehended and summarily executed and only one managed to escape after which he was hidden away. Abacha thought that all…

Tuesday, 17 May 2022 06:29

Why US arrogance, not Russia-China relationship, is the biggest barrier to peace in Ukraine

Peace pleas directed at the Kremlin must be extended to Washington: its ‘mission creep’ tendencies and hostility towards Beijing – whose influence with Moscow might have made all the difference – threaten to extinguish hopes of a near-term diplomatic solution in Europe It’s just possible that a favourable diplomatic wind is forming that could alter the trajectory of the storm of war raging over Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe. Pushing this war out to sea might help clear the gathering clouds of world economic collapse. It could energise the humanitarian obligation to get Ukraine back on its feet and…

Tuesday, 17 May 2022 06:26

A world economy in disarray - C. P. Chandrasekhar

When the world’s financial leaders met mid-April at Washington for the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the mood was one of gloom. The world economy is in disarray, with world leaders clueless as to where it is headed or what can be done to prevent a possible collapse. In the April 2022 edition of its World Economic Outlook, the IMF has slashed its 2022 GDP growth forecast of six months ago by 1.3 percentage points to 3.6 per cent, and projects growth to remain below that level for the next two years. Inflation…

Monday, 16 May 2022 05:59

The egg is about to be broken again - Tim Akano

Come, let us reason together, now that such exercise is still meaningful; before the sky gets dark and evil, and the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Today, the Nation’s Ship is on fire. The Elites are shopping for new furniture to equip the burning ship, instead of looking for water and C02 to put out the fires. ’No be juju be that’? Is a soft landing still possible for Nigeria at this stage, if yes, how? That is the exam. Let me unpack the seven variants of madness inside Nigeria’s elite backpack that confirm the egg is about to be…

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