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Friday, 08 April 2022 06:17

A troubling history of consensus politics - Azu Ishiekwene

On March 26 at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the All Progressives Congress (APC), reinvented a version of consensus politics that ancient Rome and Greece would have been proud of. After years of in-fighting and decay, and fearing that the opposition might rebound, the ruling party finally called its overdue convention. It rounded up aspirants who were jostling for its executive positions and told them, at gunpoint, that it was time to try something new: consensus. Different tendencies in APC had run amok. President Muhammadu Buhari had to put his foot down and cut a deal with governors that conceded the…

Friday, 08 April 2022 06:16

Bad marriage: Man burnt wife, brother-in-law to death - Michael West

Last week, a man burnt his wife and her younger brother to death in a bad marriage situation. A close friend of the deceased who is also a relationship coach and a Pastor, Moses Abiola, sent in this write-up to warn against staying too long and keeping quiet in bad marriage situation. Read on: In the past few weeks, Michael West has been running a series on bad marriage in which preventive and way forward out of dangerous unions have been offered. As for those who think that every marital crisis can be resolved and also for those who do…

Wednesday, 06 April 2022 06:13

Adeboye: Stirring the hornets’ nest - Bola Bolawole

Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is not a flippant person; neither is he a busybody and meddlesome interloper. He is a reticent person, self-effacing and not like many other pastors who hug the limelight, puff and show off what they have as well as what God has not deposited in them. Adeboye speaks sparingly on national issues and refrains from taking sides on the raging issues of our time. If he talks, then, it means he is compelled to talk. And when he talks, he measures his speech. If he comes hard…

Wednesday, 06 April 2022 06:11

Great minds don’t think alike: Bringing sciences and the humanities together - Marcelo Gleiser

Sciences and the humanities inhabit parallel universes. Their pursuits of knowledge are mostly disconnected. It was with the above in mind that in the fall of 2016, I joined neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and philosopher David Chalmers on the stage of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. We engaged in a conversation on the “Mystery of Consciousness.” This was the first in a series of public dialogues that I conducted for the following five years in theaters and universities across the United States. They were part of the activities of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth, which…

Monday, 04 April 2022 06:14

Tell Muhammadu Buhari (1) - Bola Bolawole

“When you have a government in place, the major responsibility of that government, especially a democratic one, which was elected by the people, is to ensure the safety of life and property of innocent citizens. When things like this continue on a daily basis, those of us who are representatives of the government will become speechless. I have to repeat: We become speechless in the discharge of our duties here to defend the actions of the government. This is an elected government under popular democracy but we continue, day–in, day-out – killings, massacres, banditry and armed robbery right, left and…

Monday, 04 April 2022 06:13

Now, nowhere is safe (1) - Hassan Gimba

First, they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me The above four stanzas, variations of which have been named…

Sunday, 03 April 2022 06:53

Bola Ige: Perhaps closed files should remain just that - closed? - Wole Soyinka

Barely three months have passed since the twentieth anniversary of the murder of the late Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, an occasion that I utilized to remind President Mohammed Buhari, of a subsisting election pledge. That pledge was to re-open the files on the spate of unsolved political assassinations that had plagued the nation in recent decades. Prominent among those cases was that of the Minister of Justice, murdered on his way to take up a prestigious position with the United Nations. Presidential response was swift. Buhari ordered the Inspector-General of Police to re-open those…

Sunday, 03 April 2022 06:51

The blood on Buhari, Amaechi’s hands - Festus Adedayo

Prior to the July 11, 2007 coordinated bombing of commuter trains in India’s largest city of Mumbai, Indians, like Nigerians, were wrapped in the shawls of their innocence and naivety. On that day, terrorists violently yanked off the terror purity shawls off India’s face. In a matter of minutes, multiple explosive devices were detonated in a near-simultaneity. The devices instantly killed at least 183 people, with hundreds of others sustaining varying degrees of injuries. In a replay of this Mumbai attack in Nigeria last week, eight passengers were killed after gunmen attacked a busy train plying Nigeria's capital, Abuja and…

Sunday, 03 April 2022 06:50

Kingdom service: A secure pathway to unending breakthroughs - Taiwo Akinola

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures ~ Job 36:11. Introduction: Every believer in Christ Jesus is a candidate for unending breakthrough. All things needed for this have been amply provided for, whether tangible or intangible, and they are ours (1 Corinthians 3:21-22). Undoubtedly, the end-time Church is a Church programmed for glory, honor and majesty; a Church to be envied, and not to be pitied. Most certainly, God takes no delight in the stagnation of His people. In Deuteronomy 1:5-8, He expressly charged Israel in this regard, saying:…

Sunday, 03 April 2022 06:43

Article of faith: Understanding kingdom dynamics (2) - Femi Aribisala

Everything man-made is not of God. That is why John says: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life- is not of the Father but is of the world..” (1 John 2:15-17). Jesus says: “My kingdom is not of this world.” (John 18:36). Accordingly, Paul says: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your…

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Sunday, 03 April 2022 06:40

Ghandi Olaoye: Why Pastors should not become kings - Deji Yesufu

There is the possibility that everything I will be writing in this essay will be a rehearsing of things I have written before. I am however encouraged to venture into this subject because it is possible that some who will read this article, have not read anything else I have written. For these ones, my argument will be new and it will not be a waste of effort after all. Secondly, the subject matter that has triggered this essay is a new one. So, I will basically be employing old thoughts and making them relevant to a new subject. In…

Saturday, 02 April 2022 06:11

Cattle breeders, human butchers and terrorists - Tola Adeniyi

When will this mindless bloodletting stop? When will the mindless expansionist dreamers end their foolish dreams? When will the curse of the Berlin Conference of 1884/85 leave Africans to live their lives? When will the negligible minority who has cornered power and position realize the emptiness of this transient life and allow fellow human beings to spend their brief days on planet Earth in peace? When will mankind submit itself to reasoning and reasonableness? The recurrent disturbing news broke again that the innocent farmers struggling to get mere subsistent living were hacked down, as usual, in Benue state. And the…

Friday, 01 April 2022 05:53

Turning the other cheek for Will Smith - Azu Ishiekwene

One week before Hollywood, Nigeria hosted a different kind of Oscar moment. At the swearing-in ceremony of Charles Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank and new governor of the most commercially significant southeast states, the wife of the outgoing governor, Ebele Obiano, staged an unusual drama. Ebele, Nigeria’s modest answer to Kenya’s tempestuous Lucy Kibaki, floated across the dais to where Bianca Ojukwu Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain was sitting to mockingly question what she was doing at the ceremony after years of being a thorn in the government’s side. What followed wasn’t as pretty as Ebele’s butterfly-sleeved pink…

Friday, 01 April 2022 05:50

Why groomed men should marry nurtured women - Micheal West

By my findings and encounters with some unhappy spouses, it is revealed that not a few of the marital problems in our world these days are largely rooted in poor parenting where half-baked or outright ill-baked men undeservedly married well nurtured women. Likewise, such men have rightly got married to half-baked or wholly ill-trained women like themselves. Our culture harps so much on the upbringing of the daughters right from childhood while the male child enjoys more relaxed space and latitude of options to participate in domestic chores on the excuse that he is a potential future husband and father…

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