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Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:21

Open letter to Buhari’s successor on why Nigeria’s energy crisis should be declared an emergency

Dear in-coming President, In 2007, President Umaru Yar’Adua took on the responsibilities of the energy ministry and appointed three junior ministers to support him in the role. Odein Ajumogobia was named junior minister for petroleum, Fatimah Ibrahim for power, and Odusina Emmanuel for gas. Unfortunately, they could not achieve much before Yar'Adua died of illness at a hospital in Saudi Arabia. One good thing about Late Yar'Adua's approach is the merging of petroleum and power ministries, even though he manned the subsections by politicians who were not energy professionals. Really, petroleum and power should never have been separated into different …

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:18

Tapping into the Lord’s glory - Taiwo Akinola

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them ... (John 17:22). Introduction: From glory to glory! That is God’s primordial passion for His Church and for each new creation man upon the earth (Haggai 2:9). The Christian man is God’s House of glory (Isaiah 60:7). Hence, we are outfitted to glow from glory to glory. God’s glory is a big deal in the Bible, and it must be so to all who desire to please God and to experience His glory on earth. Meanwhile, it is quintessential that we understand the subject of God’s glory in order…

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:17

Article of faith: God did it - Femi Aribisala

When I met the Lord, I became suddenly open to the spirit world. Jesus said to me: “Femi, blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear.” (Matthew 13:16). However, this was double-edged. I could see and hear both the positive and the negative spiritual. After a few months, the pastor in my church came to see me. He had a dream in which the devil was laughing at me, boasting that he would drive me mad. The Lord asked me to wait on Him for three days because He had something to reveal to me.…

Friday, 07 January 2022 06:20

For the Nigerian Left: Facing 2022 - Edwin Madunagu

My difficulties in this discussion began with how to construct a title for it. I could break down what I wanted to say into bits of statements and questions. But I could not agree with myself on how to craft a befitting title for the discussion, even a provisional one, in the manner of many writers. Before finally adopting the title that now appears I had serially considered several alternatives. One of the earliest, the one I loved most, was “Marxism in our time”, which simply lifts the title of Leon Trotsky’s essay written in Mexico in 1939, but titled…

Friday, 07 January 2022 06:18

Akinyemi and the loneliness of exile - Dare Babarinsa

Bolaji Akinyemi, retired professor of political science, who turned 80 on Tuesday, January 4, is a theoretician of power who tries to inhabits his theories. In 1969 after he returned with a doctorate degree in political science from Trinity College, Oxford, he was employed by the University of Lagos to teach political science. While he was a student in the United States, first at Temple University, Philadelphia and later Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, he was a member of a student delegation that visited the White House where he had the rare photo opportunity with the young President John F. Kennedy.…

Friday, 07 January 2022 06:16

The story of the siege on Magodo - Azu Ishiekwene

This is a local story and it’s personal. I’m involved. And because I’m involved, I thought the best way to tell it is to hear it from persons who have a more intimate knowledge of the story; those who have lived in Magodo Shangisha GRA Scheme II, Lagos, for well over two decades. The three respondents, the first of whom is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, have asked that their names should not be used. I’ll simply describe them as Respondents I, II and III. Keep in mind as you read this, that land title in a Government Reserved Area…

Thursday, 06 January 2022 06:22

Administration of justice in changing technological environment: Matters arising - Bola Bolawole

This is not just the age of technology; it is an age when technological advancements make giant strides by the day. Some nations set the pace; others do the catching up but some lag behind in perpetuity. There are producers of technology - who smile to the bank with every technological innovation they unleash on the world - but there are also the perennial consumers of technology – who pay through their nose to acquire the latest innovations that define our modern world. Technological advancement has become so pervasive that it has invaded every facet of life; the hallowed chambers…

Tuesday, 04 January 2022 06:26

For Desmond Mpilo Tutu - Niyi Osundare

The stars lament his passing From Soweto’s seething streets to Bora BoraKings, Queens, and Presidents flood the sky With tributes and purple garlands There goes a man In whose middling physical frameThrobbed a giant heart. Prophet who divined One complex rainbow in a land Ripped a-p-a-r-t by the colour creed He saw the Buddha in his BibleThe fallow intersection between The Cross and the Crescent The Healing Wisdom of Orunmila* Whose universe is a house with a thousand rooms,His metaphor came from the sky That looming umbrella above our common heads Truth and Reconciliation Reconciliation without Truth?When a savaged country…

Monday, 03 January 2022 06:13

The rites of New Year’s resolutions - Bola Bolawole

Practically everyone makes New Year’s resolutions at this period of the season - that is, towards the end of a closing year and the beginning of a new one. I made my own New Year resolutions for the “Triple T" year of Twenty Twenty-Two (2022) a fortnight ago. I have often made New Year resolutions but my degree of success has often varied. How about you? Many people follow the tradition of New Year's resolutions for the fun of it. Others do it because they see others do so. It is doubtful if many know the origin or full import…

Monday, 03 January 2022 06:12

Banditry and our quest for leadership - Hassan Gimba

I wanted to continue with my treatise on the Rule of Law as our only panacea for survival when a clarion call by governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, caught my attention. It might have come as a shock to many when Masari called on people of his state to arm themselves, rise, and confront bandits to defend themselves. He lamented that security officials alone cannot tackle insecurity in the state. Masari’s state, like other northwest and northcentral states of Zamfara, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna and Kogi, has witnessed incessant attacks by bandits linked to the dreaded Boko Haram…

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Sunday, 02 January 2022 06:19

2022: Year to get back our country - Festus Adedayo

Even in the grips of hopelessness, it will still be suicidal for a nation to be hopeless. This will seem to be the situation with Nigeria as she meandered into a new year yesterday. Same yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari was at the shrine to offer the rituals of a new year. In his 2022 New Year message, Buhari read the prepared words of those trained in the art of suasion. He reeled into evocative statistics, grand and very persuasive efforts of his government to tackle insecurity and rev the economy. Buhari called on Nigerians to welcome 2022 with hope and…

Sunday, 02 January 2022 06:18

The supernatural God: Our hope in the New Year! - Taiwo Akinola

The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children ~ Psalms 115:14. Introduction: With greatest joy in my heart, and with special thanks unto the Lord God Almighty, I welcome you all to Year 2022. We are alive today because of God’s matchless grace and steadfast faithfulness. Alleluia! Thank you also, my dear readers, for being part of my life and ministries. All those who loved us or responded to our love, and all those who prayed for us or encouraged us one way or the other in the course of the just-ended year, thank you very…

Sunday, 02 January 2022 06:16

Article of faith: God loves himself more than he loves us (2) - Femi Aribisala

God created a world full of counterfeits. Solomon in his wisdom recognises this. He says: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” (Ecclesiastes 1:2). Nothing in this world is valuable. Nothing on earth is meaningful or worthwhile. John says: “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 2:16-17). Fading glory The glory of man is illusory. It fades. Isaiah says: “Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of…

Friday, 31 December 2021 12:03

On ‘Bakare’s loan’: The wheat, the chaff and all in-between - Seun Kolade

There are fundamental questions and concerns that need to be asked about the governance structures of churches, especially Pentecostal organisations in Nigeria and beyond. And more often than not, because of the way some zealot members typically bristle at the very idea of public debate about church governance, it is often difficult to have rational and productive conversation. However once you get this out of the way, and get past the layers of sentiments and emotions, it is possible to see a bit more clearly. On the recent news making the rounds about Citadel Global Community Church, led by the…

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