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Thursday, 17 February 2022 06:29

Of the politics of ‘bad belle’ and ‘bad blood’ - Bola Bolawole

It was in April 2021 and the occasion would ordinarily have been innocuous but for the fact that the star actor was former two-time Head of State and newsmaker par excellence, Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo was being inaugurated as a trustee of the Abeokuta Club. Abeokuta, specifically Owu or, better still, Ibogun-Olaogun, is the generally-recognised birthplace of Obasanjo. Headlined “MKO Abiola: Why IBB cancelled 1993 election” a news medium reported the story this way: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has insinuated that former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), cancelled the June 12, 1993 election presumably won by MKO Abiola due to…

Thursday, 17 February 2022 06:19

Abba Kyari owes Nigeria more than the USA - Abimbola Adelakun

Since the report of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari’s alleged involvement in a drug ring hit the airwaves on Monday, the question of whether he will be extradited to the United States of America to face justice for pending infractions has also resurfaced. About nine months ago, Federal Bureau of Investigation had declared Kyari wanted over his association with internet fraudster Ramon Abbass (aka Hushpuppi). Kyari was alleged to have (ab)used the instruments of the state entrusted to him by privately punishing Hushpuppi’s criminal associates. Kyari was suspended from duty and is being investigated by a panel set…

Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:16

Osun and the Cup Final of political feuds - Bamidele Johnson

An accident waiting to happen? Perhaps. What is certain is that unless a quick resolution is found, the Aregbesola-Tinubu fall-out will deliver industrial-scale carnage. Hints of that have already manifested, with Aregbesola peeling off his dansiki or agbada, so to speak, to launch the first public offensive via a stream of words that cannot be filed under praise and worship. The riposte to that, as claimed by those in Osun, particularly Aregbesola partisans, was a rain of bullets on the Interior Minister's convoy. This feels different, very different, because Bola Tinubu and Aregbesola, publicly at least, have always sung from…

Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:13

Practical alternatives to ASUU’s overused strike weapon - Olarinre Salako

On Monday February 14, 2022, Nigerian Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was reported to have resolved to go on yet another strike. This will be a “one-month comprehensive and total strike to compel the Nigerian government to accede to our requests,” several national newspapers and online media reported ASUU to have said. Nigerians by now know the problems with the public university education and why ASUU has been perennially fighting to solve the problems. I will address these problems in the course of suggesting the solutions shortly. What Nigerians also know is that ASUU has consistently used ONLY ONE…

Monday, 14 February 2022 12:43

Techno-optimism and the rule-of-threes: Why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing

Mark Mills Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen. KEY TAKEAWAYSMaturing technologies in the realms of information, machines, and materials are paving the way toward an explosion in human progress and productivity. In this excerpt from the book The Cloud Revolution, Mark Mills describes how "overnight success" stories like the iPhone are actually built upon previous technologies, which themselves often took decades to develop. Ultimately, technological revolutions of the kind we are now experiencing bring greater per capita wealth, improved health and well-being,…

Monday, 14 February 2022 06:09

Ekiti: APC, PDP primaries of controversies (2) - Bola Bolawole

On June 1, 2018, there was pandemonium (“b’oolo, yaa’mi) at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ado-Ekiti as a chieftain of the party, Opeyemi Bamidele, was accidentally shot by a policeman at a rally organised by the APC; the rally was to welcome Kayode Fayemi, its governorship candidate in the July 14, 2018 Ekiti State governorship election, to the state after his resignation from the Federal Executive Council where he had been the Minister of Mines and Steel Development. The shooting took place at the APC secretariat in Ajilosun, Ado-Ekiti. Opeyemi was a sitting member of the House of…

Monday, 14 February 2022 05:58

The West must accept reality in Ukraine - Nancy Qian

The buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine’s border has led to fears of a new war. But the conflict is hardly new, and nor are Russia’s objectives. Ukraine, which has been indirectly controlled or directly repressed by Moscow-based governments for centuries, wants NATO to protect it from future Russian incursions, like the one the Kremlin launched in 2014. But Russian President Vladimir Putin is demandingthat NATO promise not to expand into any more Eastern European countries that border Russia (which already shares a border with five NATO members). NATO, led by the United States, is refusing Putin’s demand on the…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:23

Sofiat’s murder and our booming human body parts market - Festus Adedayo

With the shock, anger and general revulsion that followed the gruesome killing of 20-year-old Sofiat Kehinde, allegedly perpetrated by her boyfriend and three of his accomplices in Oke-Aregba, Itoko-Tuntun, Idi-Ape in Abeokuta, Ogun State on January 29, 2022, an end ought to have naturally come to our naivety about the pestilence that ritual killings for money has become among us. Or oughtn’t it? Only yesterday, in same Abeokuta, in an area called Leme, 43 year-old Kehinde Oladimeji and his wife, Adejumoke Raji, were arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for being in possession of fresh human breasts,…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:21

Fresh anointing for fresh glory - Taiwo Akinola

But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil ~ Psalm 92:10. Introduction: Yesterday’s win won’t qualify you for today’s trophy, and yesterday’s anointing won’t be sufficient in the face of today’s challenges. We all need fresh anointing for every new day, if we are to enjoy the freshness of God’s glory. God’s age-long desire and primordial passion is to fill the earth with His power, glory, splendor, beauty, excellency, life and love (Numbers 14:21; Habakkuk 2:14). This divine desire is realizable only through the children of God. Hence, the…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:20

Article of faith: The blessing of forgiveness - Femi Aribisala

God made a promise to Abraham: “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2). What exactly was the blessing the Lord promised Abraham? Was it that he would be rich in cattle and in lands and houses? If that was God’s intention, what would happen to the lands and houses after Abraham died? Abraham would have to relinquish them so they would stop being blessings to him. What difference would it make if God made Abraham’s name great after he died if Abraham does…

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Friday, 11 February 2022 06:22

Mountain facing Yahaya Bello - Azu Ishiekwene

Even though the All Progressives Congress (APC) has repeatedly denied zoning the position of chairman to the Northcentral, there’s hardly any credible analysis which does not feature candidates from the zone in the first three spots. Days to the party’s first national convention in four years, there is growing public interest in the outcome of the convention, because how it ends may not only indicate if the party is over, it might also provide an indication of who the party’s flag bearer would be for next year’s presidential election. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been a bit more…

Friday, 11 February 2022 06:20

“Warn Yahoo boys, ‘bad girls' are coming!” - Michael West

Danger is looming! We are still praying and strategizing how to peacefully navigate the cloudy political atmosphere between now and next year but the onslaughts of Yahoo ritualists is swelling the rank of predators like Boko Haram, killer herdsmen, kidnappers, bandits and armed robbers. Yahoo ritualists are more dangerous because they live among us. They are well known. They are encouraged by the corrupt and socially disoriented society. They're role models to some indigent, jobless and misdirected youths who crave for nothing but riches by any means humanly possible or forcefully attainable. The dimension that Yahoo scammers and ritualists are…

Thursday, 10 February 2022 06:31

Nigeria needs a new kind of politics - Financial Times Editorial

There is more than a year to go until Nigeria’s presidential and legislative elections, not that you would know it by the election frenzy already gripping the west African nation of 200 million people. Potential candidates from the two main parties are jostling to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as president of Africa’s biggest economy. For those disenchanted with the past seven uninspiring years, a transition cannot come soon enough. Who wins is a matter for Nigerians only. The outcome, however, should be of interest to everyone. Nigeria’s population is set to double over the next 30 years to 400mn, by which…

Thursday, 10 February 2022 06:17

ASUU: Time to think out of the box - Bola Bolawole

Writing here last week on the report that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) chapter was mooting the idea of another strike action over its disagreement with the OAU Management on the sharing formula adopted in respect of the earned academic allowance released by the Federal Government, I expressed my worry and disappointment this way: Another strike at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)? No matter how justified, this is one strike too many”. I had then promised to say more on the matter today. Again, writing in…

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