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Sunday, 27 March 2022 06:34

Inside the whoredom and harlotry of Nigeria’s 2023 election - Festus Adedayo

In Russia’s 1998 St. Petersburg local assembly elections, incumbent Oleg Sergeyev had been a thorn in the flesh of totalitarian governor, Vladimir Yakovlev. Upon Sergeyev’s launch of his bid to replace him, Yakovlev waited till election date to sting him with his amusingly ingenuous strategy. On voting day, voters, majority of whom were illiterate, were at sea when they found two of their adored candidate’s namesakes on the ballot - Oleg Sergeyev and Oleg Sergeyev. The former was a pensioner and the latter, an unemployed man, both of whom had no qualification for the office they sought but were implanted…

Sunday, 27 March 2022 06:32

Crushing the invisible barriers to breakthrough - Taiwo Akinola

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places ~ Isaiah 45:2-3 Introductions: Becoming familiar with the spiritual nature of life’s obstacles to progress is a wise thing to do if we hope to get onto the paths of meaningful breakthroughs. One wise man rightly said: “if stagnation goes unexamined, breakthrough pays the price”. Obstacles naturally litter the pathways to a good life, and it is…

Sunday, 27 March 2022 06:30

Article of faith: Understanding kingdom dynamics - Femi Aribisala

Christians do not love God. We are not interested in the kingdom of God. Instead, we love life. We love this world. We are lovers of pleasure. We do not want to suffer for Christ’s sake and for the sake of the kingdom of God. We love money, worship money, and serve money. We have idols in our hearts. We want to gain this world and the world to come. We want to have our cake and eat it too. Making godly choices But choices must be made. We either choose life and live, or we choose death and die.…

Friday, 25 March 2022 06:00

Russia: Know the truth and let it set you free - Femi Fani-Kayode

If you insist on talking or writing about the war in the Ukraine kindly get your facts right and do not repeat the one-sided, subjective and monotonous clap trap and fairy tales that CNN and the other international media networks are continuously churning out. Any student of modern history will tell you that the Russians were never the villains when it comes to acts of barbarity committed against sovereign nation states and against the oppresed people of the world. That notorious title goes to the Americans, the Western European nations and their allies. More than any other nation on earth…

Friday, 25 March 2022 05:59

Ebele’s diary and other unforgettable First Ladies - Azu Ishiekwene

I thought there was a mistake. The headline said Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain and wife of Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca, slapped the outgoing First Lady of Anambra State, Ebele Obiano. In my head, however, the news read differently. This was not the sort of thing you would associate with Bianca, a former ambassador and beauty queen. In spite of what I was reading as the news broke, I told myself that the reality was the other way round: Ebele Obiano must have slapped Bianca Ojukwu. If you know Ebele, you will know why in spite of the news, it is…

Monday, 21 March 2022 11:17

For Bene Madunagu at 75 - Edwin Madunagu

[This is a revised and updated version of the tribute I paid the subject five years ago, on March 21, 2017 when she became 70 years old. Although she has since then lived largely in retirement and ill-health, she has nonetheless done a number of things - directly and indirectly, alone and in combination with others - that now contribute significantly in defining the essence of her entire adult life. The most significant of these “things” is offered as an Update in the closing paragraphs of this edition.] Our subject is known officially, especially in the academic world, as Professor…

Monday, 21 March 2022 06:29

Which way Nigeria: Restructuring before election or election without restructuring? - Bola Bolawole

The agitation for restructuring has been one of the most important political topics in Nigeria in recent years: To be or not to be? When and how? In what form and to what extent? The arguments for and against restructuring apart, the politics surrounding it has brought out the devils in some of our politicians as they approbate and reprobate at the same time, disowning today what they had affirmed yesterday, knowing and at the same time not knowing! What is restructuring: fiscal, physical, geographical or what-have-you? How, if any, does restructuring differ from self-determination? True federalism, fiscal federalism, confederation…

Sunday, 20 March 2022 06:30

Between Wike’s temper and Anambra’s valedictory slaps - Festus Adedayo

In the final analysis, it will appear that the Nigerian political elite, adept as it is at plundering Nigerian resources and inflicting pain on the people, it has very scant understanding of the psychology of the people it pillages. A very true story that will succinctly demonstrate this happened in Ondo State, about 1990. Olabode Ibiyinka George, Commodore in the Nigerian Navy, had been posted to the state as governor in 1988. As is customary, in tow did he come with his wife, Feyi, a very self-opinionated woman. Unsubstantiated claims alleged that both were on the verge of divorce before…

Sunday, 20 March 2022 06:29

The bliss and the dilemma of personal choices - Taiwo Akinola

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live ~ Deuteronomy 30:19. Introduction: Excellence in life is all about trade secrets. The more you trade with them, the more excellent you become. All who hope, therefore, to enjoy secure access to a lifeline of breakthrough and fulfillment on earth must enthusiastically search out noble Biblical secrets, and especially engage them in their day-to-day living (Deuteronomy 29:29). God’s kingdom principles constitute the major keys in the…

Sunday, 20 March 2022 06:27

Article of faith: Contradictions that do not contradict (3) - Femi Aribisala

Take a look at the blunder that Martin Luther made after reading Paul’s statement that nothing shall separate us from the love of God. (Romans 8:38-39). Luther says: “Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your faith in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. This life is not a place where righteousness can exist. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery a thousand times each day.” This is nothing but a devilish statement from a so-called…

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Saturday, 19 March 2022 17:59

Russia-Ukraine war: Is Zelensky a hero or is he deluded? - Femi Fani-Kayode

I deplore and condemn the barbaric killings and vicious barbarism that have been unleashed against a mainly defenceless and helpless civilian population in the Ukraine. Yet the bitter truth is that all that President Volodymyr Zelensky has to do to stop the relentless slaughter of his people is to state clearly and categorically that the Ukraine will NEVER join NATO, that the Ukraine will NEVER allow foreign military bases on her soil and that the Ukraine will MAINTAIN neutrality like Sweden and Finland. He also has to allow the Russian-speaking people of Donesk and Eastern Ukraine to exercise their right…

Saturday, 19 March 2022 11:56

Ukraine and the Bucharest Memorandum - Femi Mimiko

So much is being made of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which formed the basis of divesting Ukraine of its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees for the former Soviet republic. It was negotiated by US, UK, Russia and Ukraine - in conformity with the nuclear non-proliferation principle. The February 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine by Moscow is, in several quarters, now being touted as tantamount to a violation of the sanctity of the Memorandum. A note of analysis and caution on this. First, the Budapest Memorandum was negotiated and adopted within a specific context. The nuclear arsenal stationed…

Friday, 18 March 2022 06:16

Gosh! My associates and successors are dying… - Tola Adeniyi

I will not start with the departure, 14 years ago, of Femi Sonaike; age-mate [May 29, June 3], town-mate, classmate, same profession, same height, Best man to each other at weddings 2-weeks apart, one extroverted and the other introverted. Neither will I go back to this day 10 years ago when my friend, the extraordinarily gregarious Golf-enthusiast Oluwole Olumide [who I believe was murdered March 16, 2012] forcibly commenced his journey in the Continuum. Tears for the two had dried up…only reminiscences. Of recent were the passages of UK-based Ademola Adenuga, retired Dept Permanent Secretary and humour merchant Gbolabo Ogunsanwo,…

Friday, 18 March 2022 06:12

Triumph of the ‘yahoo-yahoo’ governors - Azu Ishiekwene

In the midst of our current misery, Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu thought we needed something to cheer last week, so he offered a joke, which was telling and disturbing. In the row between the Governor of Yobe and interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mai Mala Buni, and governors who wanted to overthrow him, Akeredolu, who was on the side of the protagonists, reached into the gutter for words to describe his enemies. He plumbed the depths, far below the sepsis reached by the sarcasm of Salihu Lukman, the former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum,…

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