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Thursday, 14 April 2022 06:19

Slandering Osinbajo with dubious parallelisms - Sola Adeyeye

Now that Yemi Osinbajo has declared his interest in the Presidency, it is time to answer the simpletons drawing wrong parallels in history by comparing PYO's putative intent (now turned declaration) to the sad parting of ways between Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola. Such comparison is rooted in abject ignorance and malignant mischief. We must clear these scurrilous insinuations from catawaulers whose sole intent is to dispense vicious calumny. The confusionists conjuring these poor parallelisms go as far as invoking the name of Judas Isacariot to demonise those who have acted outside their own scripts. Clearly, such comparison is rooted…

Wednesday, 13 April 2022 06:12

Insecurity as the biggest issue - Kayode Komolafe

As big names continue to emerge on the roll call of presidential aspirants the biggest issue of the next year’s election, crippling insecurity, should be constantly put on the sharpest focus. Issues of elections are never invented by politicians. The condition of the economy, polity and society invariably throw up the issues to be addressed in every election. The 2023 election would not be different as the issues are manifest in the concrete situation. So as Marxists would put it scientifically, what is direly needed now is a “concrete analysis of a concrete situation” for the ultimate purpose of action.…

Monday, 11 April 2022 06:28

Tell Muhammadu Buhari (2) - Bola Bolawole

“Once again, I would like to quote the late Gen. Sani Abacha: ‘Any insurgency that lasts more than two hours, a government official has a hand in it” – Ibrahim B. Babangida. “God just exposed the corruption in the railway ticketing (with the recent bandits' attack on the Abuja - Kaduna train)! No wonder they did not want to introduce online booking; when it was eventually introduced, it was always said to have been fully booked, especially the business class. Currently, they are having problems with the Chinese because the Chinese want to run the train and introduce real online…

Monday, 11 April 2022 06:26

Now, nowhere is safe (2) - Hassan Gimba

I believe Nigerians should no longer accept to be fooled by those who use their sentiments to get into office. We must not forget yesterday if we want to correct our today for our tomorrow to be great. On 26 March 2018, when we warned on this page under the screaming headline, ‘Mr President, Nigeria is at War!’, some powerful figures had since told us they had given money to (or empowered the) enemies of Nigeria “to stop banditry”! But it is on record that we said: “Nigeria is in a state of war but it looks as if we…

Monday, 11 April 2022 06:25

Shock therapy for neoliberals - Joseph E. Stiglitz

The fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reminded us of the unforeseeable disruptions constantly confronting the global economy. We have been taught this lesson many times. No one could have predicted the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and few anticipated the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, or Donald Trump’s election, which resulted in the United States turning toward protectionism and nationalism. Even those who did anticipate these crises could not have said with any precision when they would occur. Each of these events has had enormous macroeconomic consequences. The pandemic called our attention to our seemingly robust economies’…

Sunday, 10 April 2022 06:36

2023 conspiracy theory of how Dino Melaye’s god may be our God - Festus Adedayo

A single thread links the duo of Dino Melaye, former Senator representing Kogi West in the federal parliament and Shakespearean tragic character, Cinna the Poet: their individual resort to metaphysics to explain their predicament and where they stood. While Cinna never lived to tell the story, Melaye, severally dubbed an infantile-mind-trapped-in-an-adult-body – apologies to Farooq Kperogi – may by now have gone into the studio to wax yet another of his sickening pediatric comic skits. Rome had been enveloped in violent disorder and utter chaos in the thick of the assassination of Julius Caesar, its fallen emperor. It was also…

Sunday, 10 April 2022 06:35

Receiving and enjoying the Lord’s favour - Taiwo Akinola

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man ~ Proverbs 3:3-4. Introduction: No situation in life can ever be comparable with the matchless possibilities that are available to the believers in Christ Jesus. Yes, sometimes, we feel like failures, and because we think we lost grips on some important things in life, we feel unloved, worthless and unwelcome in certain circles. Even then, God’s favour can always change the storylines. No one can…

Sunday, 10 April 2022 06:33

Article of faith: Understanding kingdom dynamics (3) - Femi Aribisala

The devil holds men in bondage through the singular sin of the love of life. We steal, cheat, fight, kill, commit adultery and other sins to save our lives. Therefore, to repent of sin is to repent of the love of life. Jesus demonstrated that our fear of death is baseless by laying down His life and then rising from the dead. This is because we sin in the determination to defend, enhance, and promote our lives. But the man who turns the other cheek does not sin. We overcome sin by laying down our lives. Indeed, no man can…

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…

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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…

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