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Friday, 12 January 2024 04:54

Reflections on Adesina’s work with Buhari - Azu Ishiekwene

I knew Femi Adesina when he was “Daddy Tobi.” He still is, of course. But back in the day when we were neighbours in “Olowora Inside”, a Lagos suburb, when you could call to a neighbour from your frontage, often by using the name of their first child, that was how we called Femi: Daddy Tobi. I have heard people complain that a friend in government is a friend lost. I have seen it too – friends who are not only lost but who are also happy to lose themselves once in power or positions of influence. I don’t know…

Thursday, 11 January 2024 04:40

There is no defending TB Joshua - Abimbola Adelakun

For those of you who watched the BBC Africa documentary, Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (three episodes), an expose on the Synagogue Church of All Nations’ late founder Temitope Joshua and still insist on defending him, I have four words: you are not serious. Yes, the whole lot of you. Your faces are looking funny in the light. Some defenders—understandably—grapple with the contradictions of a man who artfully constructed his public image as a good yet profoundly misunderstood man. The rest of you, still bonded into Joshua’s cult of personality, are being obtuse. You query, why now that he…

Monday, 08 January 2024 04:45

Cotonou degrees and Nigeria’s wimpy education policy - Hassan Gimba

Last week, we got a dose of what investigative journalism ought to be. Umar Audu, a promising young journalist, proved to be an outstanding student of his mentor, Ja’afar Ja’afar, an investigative journalist of the first order. Reporting for Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar’s online newspaper, Umar Audu went underground to bag a degree in Mass Communication from a university in the Benin Republic. It is a report worthy of the highest award in the land for investigative journalism. “This certificate will be delivered to you just like you ordered a pizza or something, and you give them your location, and it…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:32

Akwa Ibom’s N32 billion Yamoussoukro Basilica - Festus Adedayo

One single thread links Umo Eno, self-styled pastor governor of Akwa Ibom State, his predecessor, Emmanuel Udom and Felix Houphouet-Boigny. It is the religious bigotry and senselessness behind the Akwa Ibom International Worship Centre and the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire. While Eno and Udom constructed a worship centre said to have gulped a frighteningly high N32 billion, Houphouet-Boigny also constructed a monumental architectural edifice in his Yamoussoukro village worth $300 million between 1985 and 1989. Yamoussoukro was regarded as a provincial town that boasted only a mere 220,000 inhabitants and characterized by low-density and…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:31

The SeedPlot for bountiful harvests (1) - Taiwo Akinola

Understanding the Basic Fundamentals of Bountiful Harvests Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest ~ John 4:35. Introduction It’s a new year, and a new season of our lives! I seize this moment therefore to say happy new year to all my reading audience, and I pray that God’s mercy will accompany you all the way through, in Jesus name. Amen. Meanwhile, good understanding is a major pathway to favour (Proverbs 13:15). In all…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:30

Article of faith: Prayer for the fruit of the Holy Spirit (1) - Femi Aribisala

Let Your peace flow in us like a river.Lord God Almighty, we want to thank you this morning for Your everlasting love.We want to thank You, Father, that it is You and no one else, who is God.For our God is love and You love us with an everlasting love. Lord, we are so grateful that it pleased You to give to us, not another spirit, but Your Holy Spirit, the Most Wonderful Person in the Universe.Spirit of the living God, You are our most precious diadem.You are the crowning glory of the manifestation of the love of God in…

Friday, 05 January 2024 04:46

In pursuit of the last Hamas - Azu Ishiekwene

After futile attempts by others to get the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of genocide against the parties in the war in Gaza, South Africa raised the stakes by filing a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Unlike the ICC, the ICJ is an organ of the UN for civil complaints, and Israel is a signatory to its charter. But South Africa’s latest action may well be symbolic. It means nothing to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has sworn not to stop the war in Gaza until the last member…

Wednesday, 03 January 2024 04:35

Media trial: Is Tinubu’s Obazee team a mirror of Buhari’s Ode probe panel? - Yushau A. Shuaib

In the past couple of weeks, the media has been awash with reported cases of monumental scandals involving individuals and organisations associated with the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Some of the reports claim that the suspects not only looted billions in local and foreign currencies from the Nigerian treasury but there are equally others to be exposed for re-looting the so-called recovered loot. The former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, was detained for several weeks before being arraigned in court for the massive abuse he has been alleged as having subjected his office…

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 04:29

Tinubu’s palliatives: What goes around comes aground - Banji Ojewale

What goes around comes aground: Tinubu is under the guidance of Okigbo’s cursed star. He is planting seeds certain to grow into labyrinthine forests with the potential to ground us. He’s going his predecessor’s way, throwing free cash at challenges on the ground, when, according to experts, he could use this money to address strategic needs of the weak, who make up the majority. Those who came before him also walked this pseudo-welfarist route of easy cash solution and flopped. There was/is little to show for the billions they spent as reliefs. The universal principle is that what goes around…

Monday, 01 January 2024 04:41

Why a President should not be a Minister - Hassan Gimba

An Igbo adage says that when an anomaly persists for one year, it becomes the norm. So slowly, steadily but surely, it is becoming a norm, an accepted aberration, for a president in Nigeria to appoint himself as a minister. It is like saying in a country of 200 million-plus, there is no one good or capable enough to hold that particular office except the man entrusted with the running of the nation. It was President Olusegun Obasanjo that started it. Nicknamed the “Trinity President” in some quarters, for six out of his eight years in office, i.e., from 1999…

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Sunday, 31 December 2023 04:24

Life, Akeredolu, Na’Abba and the “Ebi npa wa” shame - Festus Adedayo

For the Algerian journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist, Albert Camus, life is meaningless and absurd. To him, it is inexplicable why we live, struggle all through and die. The meaninglessness of life is explained in his book The Myth of Sisyphus where he captures the absurdity of the god, Sisyphus struggling to push a rock up the mountain. The rock is pushed uphill; the rock rolls back in an endless, fruitless fight of forces. It is what human life represents to the writer. You cannot have a full…

Sunday, 31 December 2023 04:23

Necessary wisdom for the determined goal-getters - Taiwo Akinola

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it ~ Habakkuk 2:2. Introduction This old year is fast winding to a close, and we are now in its dying hours. Naturally, every ending provokes opportunities for new beginnings. Thus, the time is now for us to set our paths straight for new doings from God (Isaiah 43:19). Particularly, it behoves us to be adequately prepared and fully determined, so that the new year will meet us well-positioned to enjoy the bountiful harvests of God’s supernatural goodness.…

Sunday, 31 December 2023 04:21

Article of faith: The prosperity gospel is demonic - Femi Aribisala

The prosperity gospel maintains that redemption in Christ Jesus is also redemption from financial poverty. This means every Christian is called to be rich in dollars and cents. If this were so, then one wonders why the disciples of Jesus all remained poor, and why Judas needed the 30 pieces of silver he was paid for betraying Jesus. Prosperity gospel appeals to the rich because it tells them they will become even richer. It appeals to the poor because it promises them that they will become rich. It appeals especially to pastors because it has proved to be an effective…

Saturday, 30 December 2023 04:28

The politics of collective immiseration - Moses Oludele Idowu

"There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots." - Miguel de Cervantes "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true." - Isaac Newton The large crowd I saw at Bourdillon, in front of the house of Bola Tinubu, President of Nigeria and one of the leading politicians who have heavily profited from politics in this political dispensation, made me sad and caused my heart to sink. The long line of crowds of multitudes waiting for crumbs from one of the biggest political profiteers of this era is…

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