Opinion

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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Against the expectations of many, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) wobbled and fumbled through into a successful – for so it seems for now – national convention last Saturday! The house many had thought would collapse did not after all! APC managed to cobble together a “Unity list” of aspirants for party offices through consensus. President Muhammadu Buhari’s touted candidate, Abdullahi Adamu, emerged as the APC chairman while Iyiola Omisore emerged as the National Secretary. The first consensus national chairman of APC was Bisi Akande, ex-Governor of Osun State and Bola Tinubu’s right-hand man. Akande was followed by ex-Edo…
On Monday night, terrorists attacked a Kaduna-bound passenger train that left from Abuja. They ambushed the train by detonating some explosives laid on the railway tracks. The violent implosion that followed not only stopped the train in its tracks but also imploded the myth of the progress Nigeria has made under the present regime. So far, eight people are reportedly dead, an undetermined number abducted and others still missing. Considering that there was also an attack on the Kaduna airport on Saturday and a siege laid on Abuja-Kaduna Road on Tuesday, a lot going on now is deeply depressing. The…
November 25, 2024

From zero to $10 billion annual transactions: How Jiji became one of Nigeria’s e-commerce leaders

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PDP governors urge Tinubu to review economic policies amid rising hardship

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Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 416

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Nigeria comes top in instant payment system inclusivity index in Africa

Nigeria’s instant payment system is projected to advance to the maturity inclusion spectrum ahead of…
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Nigeria awarded 3-0 win over Libya after airport fiasco

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