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Sunday, 24 July 2022 07:22

Mama Igosun’s Sallah goat succumbs to a technical knock out

A week after the Sallah festivities, yours sincerely was roused from afternoon siesta by some commotion on the street. A goat was bleating in distress in the distance with a distraught old woman screaming and raining curses on the poor animal. Lo! It was Mama Igosun dragging the Sallah goat yours sincerely had bought for her through the streets while heaping imprecations and indignities on the fellow. One would have thought that a ram bought for Sallah would have become victual history a week after the Sallah celebrations, but not so. Mama had actually cajoled one to buying a hefty…

Sunday, 24 July 2022 07:20

How Nigeria turbans its terrorists, the Ada Alerus - Festus Adedayo

At a time when Nigeria thought it had seen the zenith of pain and agony from its unhealed wound, with the unimaginable pus that oozes daily from it over the years, last week, a frightening symptom emerged from the wound. Bleeding blisters that emit dirty-looking, foul-smelling discharges indicated that the Nigerian wound may have gone gangrenous. The gangrene sign came right from the theatre of war in Zamfara State where bandits have literally taken over government. If we thought the daily harvest of dead bodies of countrymen killed by bandits and the Ansaru terrorist group was the height of our…

Sunday, 24 July 2022 07:17

Developing your sensitivity to the Holy Spirit - Taiwo Akinola

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye ~ Psalms 32:8. Introduction: Everything that has to do with our relationship with God depends absolutely upon our capacity for spiritual sensitivity. Sensitivity is a major index of spirituality, and none can ever be greater in spiritual things than his or her level of sensitivity to God’s Voice and to His leadings. Sensitivity can be likened to the ability of a radio receiver to pick signals from a radio station; in which case, the receiver must be tuned to…

Sunday, 24 July 2022 07:15

Article of faith: Riches in glory - Femi Aribisala

Jesus says to His disciples: “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” (John 15:16). We blundered at the first birth, presuming we were born to pursue our own dreams, have illustrious careers, make a lot of money, and make a name for ourselves. But now our Maker leaves nothing to conjecture. We are born again (a second time) to produce the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ. …

Friday, 22 July 2022 06:05

Will machines replace journalists, too? - Azu Ishiekwene

The advent of any significant changes in technology has often triggered concerns about the fate of journalism. Even at the infancy of social media, TIME covered one of its editions of February 5, 2009, with concern about the imminent death of journalism. To drive home the point, the graphic was illustrated with a copy of the New York Timeswrapping a tilapia. The profession went through similar bouts of self-doubt and anxiety, after the introduction of the movable type and printing press. This same thing happened following the introduction of the telephone, radio and television. In hindsight, it would seem that…

Thursday, 21 July 2022 06:17

Africa is not Europe’s gas station - Mohamed Adow

Having been thrust to the front lines of a climate crisis we did not cause, Africans have long urged rich countries to wean themselves off fossil fuels and slash their greenhouse-gas emissions. But, instead of heeding our calls, the rich have remained addicted to oil and gas – much of which, in Europe’s case, has come from Russia. Now they are taking this insult a step further: in their drive to end their dependence on Russian energy, the world’s wealthiest economies are turning to Africa. Over the past few months, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has been working tirelessly to…

Tuesday, 19 July 2022 06:55

Two short takes on Muhammadu Buhari - Bola Bolawole

Erstwhile Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the capital, Kabul, on 15th August, 2021. Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapasa, fled the country on 12 July, 2022 on a military aircraft. With Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits and other terrorists literally swirling over Abuja and running rings round it, tongues are beginning to wag! I overheard someone ask cynically: When will Buhari flee Abuja? Not to worry – and in case you didn't hear him – the president, obviously tired to his bones and soaked to his pants - has said he is eager to “flee” when his tenure ends on May 29,…

Tuesday, 19 July 2022 06:54

Osun as a predictor of presidential elections - Farooq Kperogi

Since 2014, Osun State has emerged as Nigeria’s bellwether state, as Americans call states whose voting patterns almost always align with the winning presidential ticket. APC’s victory in Osun in 2014, in spite of the intense, all-out PDP-controlled federal effort to swing the election in PDP's favor, presaged APC’s odds-defying victory in the 2015 presidential election. In 2018, PDP’s Ademola Adeleke didn’t lose the 2018 governorship election in Osun; APC stole it from him using what no less a person than Buhari himself admitted was “remote control,” which was his euphemism for rigging. Since there was no consequence for the…

Monday, 18 July 2022 06:53

Brut’alaye the butcher of Mali - Aba Saheed

I dream a lot and messages in my dreams usually come to pass. In fact my grandmother who passed on during the Plague of 1917 told me I used to relate messages of my dreams to her. My mother who passed on in 2013 confirmed the same gift when she told me that I used to dream even when I was in her womb. Anybody in doubt could cross check with my grandmother at her resting place which I may not be able to locate since she died 105 years ago but my mother’s resting place is Tomb 595, Row…

Monday, 18 July 2022 06:51

Akeredolu: Crocodile tears, scaremongering or crying wolf? - Bola Bolawole

Penultimate Friday, Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu was quoted as raising the alarm that terrorists were trooping down South from the North. As volatile and scary as the statement was, the governor said nothing new. That the entire Southwest, and not Akeredolu’s Ondo State alone, has been infiltrated and surrounded by terrorists and jihadists is generally well-known or, better still, such news have been in the public domain for years now, and it has been credited to credible sources such as the United Nations and world powers such as the United States of America. Being a sitting governor with access, we believe,…

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Monday, 18 July 2022 06:49

Nigeria, oh our Nigeria - Hassan Gimba

I must confess that the above title was inspired by Eric Donaldson's song, 'Land of My Birth', from his hit reggae album, Kent Village, released in 1978. Some years ago, the song was voted winner of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's "All-Time Best." Eric Donaldson, 75, was born after Jamaica's Great Depression of 1930, which took a heavy toll on the country. Strikes and riots, most times messy and bloody, were commonplace. Inequality and injustice were the order of the day. These two were like the fertile soil and water that made crime fester. It was a hot socio-political environment,…

Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:49

Kashim Shettima and the fury of Christianity - Festus Adedayo

Two anecdotes of the extreme reaction of scorned women will avail you if you are looking for a corollary to Nigerian Christendom’s tempestuous anger at the choice of Kashim Shettima. Shettima, a Muslim and former governor of Borno State, was recently chosen as Vice Presidential candidate to Bola Tinubu, a Muslim presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In traditional Africa which celebrates centuries of polygamy, incidences of husband-wives tension, confrontations, jealousy and bitterness have led to destruction of polygynous homes. One of such is Richard Edward Dennett’s anecdotal explanation of the life of Africa through folklores. Dennett, an…

Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:47

Why Peter Obi may become president in 2023 by default - Farooq Kperogi

Facts have uncovered from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) show that Labour Party’s Peter Obi may become Nigeria’s president next year by default because Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, candidates for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively, have violated the Electoral Act 2022, which may cause them to be disqualified if Obi sues them. The Electoral Act 2022 requires political parties to notify INEC of their intent to conduct primary elections at least 21 days before the date of their convention. It also requires parties to submit their membership registers to it at…

Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:45

Flowing in the Messianic anointing - Taiwo Akinola

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about ~ Luke 4:14. Introduction: Many spirit beings, good and bad, inhabit the unseen realm. The good ones are the angels of goodwill, but the bad ones always seek advantage to do maximum damage to God’s people in general (Ephesians 6:12-13). Only Christians who carry a strong anointing of the Holy Spirit are positioned well enough and mightily weaponized sufficiently to mitigate this satanic operation on earth, and are, therefore, God’s relevant agents upon the earth…

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