Opinion

I was invited to conduct a teaching programme in a neighbouring church in Lagos. Out of the blue, at the beginning of the session, the Lord asked me to lead members of the congregation in singing a popular Christian song. This continued every day for the first five days of the programme. Each day, the Lord would come up with another song that dealt with the topic at hand. However, every song that He gave me turned out to be unscriptural. Each song was based on a misunderstanding or misapplication of the word of God. He would then require me…
In the last two Mondays two newspapers – Daily Trust and Nigerian Tribune – have published data on the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) in the first eight months of 2021. The reports have shed more heat than light. On Monday, November 22, Daily Trust published an exclusive story entitled, “Kano beats entire five South East in VAT collection.” In the tradition of the newspaper, the story was a serious attempt to explain, in numbers, the tangled mess that VAT sharing has become in recent times. The newspaper said that in the first eight months of 2021, Kano State…
Have you been privileged to listen to the heartfelt complaints and longings of Africans, Nigerians in particular, who engaged in interracial marriages with the white or Asians? What looks fanciful, enviable and admirable couples' life to the outside world are not always the bed of roses or a Paradise of sorts in reality. Beyond the facade of glitters and razzmatazz of superficial exotic lifestyle, there exist some voids and cravings that the African spouse is longing for in the relationship which only his/her kinsfolk could fill. This does not necessarily depict the situation in every interracial marriage or relationship, not…
In the aftermath of World War II, the victors established a set of institutions that have underpinned the world order ever since. While those institutions have often been contested, they have proved to be highly resilient. But this does not mean they are invulnerable. On the contrary, their effectiveness may be gradually eroded – especially when they are used as geopolitical pawns. Academic research offers abundant analysis of the factors that boost institutional hardiness, and those that tend to hasten institutional failure. One key message – which my own experience at the World Bank and in the European Union confirms…
Putting off the crunch meeting of the ministerial World Trade Organization won’t defer the chronic malfunctions of the world economy. The currency and debt crises experienced by developing nations, the eurozone’s turn to austerity and the great financial crash are symptoms of a broken trading system built on the global role of the dollar. Deeply embedded within the world’s trade and capital regime is a hierarchy where cheap labour goods from developing nations keep rich world wages down. Meanwhile, elites in the developing world run their nations in order to be able to consume in the manner of the developed…
It is heartwarming to read through the 2021 Report of the United Nations Secretary General titled “Our Common Agenda,” and to see his assertion that the world is at the inflection point. According to him, “[i]n our biggest shared test since the Second World War, humanity faces a stark and urgent choice: a breakdown or a breakthrough.” A breakdown or a breakthrough has a great impact on the future of the world. This is the honest opinion of an honest individual and I share this opinion having researched for sometime how to create a new world order rooted in equity…
The vastness of Eurasia is becoming bracketed by belligerence. On the western front, Russia has deployed a growing number of military units to the regions near its border with Ukraine, inviting a flurry of speculation about its motives. And in the east, China’s behavior vis-à-vis Taiwan has grown increasingly worrisome. A widely reported war-game study by a US think tank concludes that the United States would have “few credible options” were China to launch a sustained attack against the island. In both cases, the aggressor’s strategic intent is clear. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government has made a point of calling…
Sunday, 28 November 2021 06:23

Madam, are these yours? - Tatalo Alamu

Despite the fact that the federal authorities appear to have eaten the humble pie and have taken back their word on the ownership of the diamond-studded braziers, the public and an increasingly vocal bar were in no mood to let the matter pass just like that. It was a case of “trouble dey sleep and yanga go wake am” as the illustrious Abami Eda himself would put things. A new organization with headquarters in the highbrow suburb of Victoria Island calling itself the International Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Politically Exposed Women (ISOPCPEW} has vowed to drag the…
Great Ife! Great Ife! Africa’s most beautiful campus! Conscious, vigilant, progressive! Aluta against all oppression! Forward ever, backward never! For learning and culture, sports and struggle! Great Ife! I love you! There’s only one Great Ife in the universe! Another Great Ife is a counterfeit Great! Great! Great! Great! Great! On Saturday, December, 2021, all roads lead to the Marriott Hotel, 122 Joel Ogunnaike Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos where the authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Ile-Ife will be conferring “Distinguished Great Ife Alumni Award” on 60 distinguished alumni of the institution. According to the…
Last week, as Minister of Information and Orientation, Lai Mohammed, was engrossed in his theatrics on television over the Lagos #EndSARS panel report; I was wrapped in sobriety as I listened to Manchester-based UK pop group of artists called the Hollies. Renowned for being one of Britain’s leading musical groups of the 1960s and into the mid 1970s, especially with their unique and distinctive blend of a three-part vocal harmony style, Hollies’ renown got catapulted to the zenith through their highly evocative song entitled He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. The song was composed by Bobby Scott and Bob Russell.…
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Edo gov election holds today amid INEC’s integrity issues, security concerns

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If you answer 'always' to these 7 questions, you’re more resilient than most

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Father installs surveillance camera on daughter’s head to keep an eye on her

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Nearly 300 prisoners escape Maiduguri prison after floods

Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week,…
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What to know after Day 941 of Russia-Ukraine war

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New study says China uses 80% artificial sand. Here’s why that’s a big deal

The world is running out of sand. About 50 billion tons of sand and gravel…
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Dubois knocks down, knocks out Joshua to retain IBF heavyweight world title

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