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Friday, 14 January 2022 04:34

Sylvester: Why we can’t walk away from this crime scene - Azu Ishiekwene

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, would like to close the case of the suspicious death of Sylvester Omoroni Jr., and simply move on to something else. He’s surprised there's pushback and can’t understand why. Odumosu said the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had advised that the evidence provided was insufficient to charge the suspects for murder. Why hang suspects merely on public sentiments when five weeks of police investigations, arrests and detention of the suspects, and autopsies in two different states have not established a prima facie case against them? On the face of it, Odumosu…

Friday, 14 January 2022 04:33

Bad Marriage: Why men ‘secure’ their wives - Michael West

Saturday, January 8, 2022, as early as 6:30am, I received a call that cleared sleep out of my eyes. The caller, who hid his caller ID, explained why some men do seek spiritual help to cage their wives. The caller, who later disclosed his identity said "it is not evil to 'secure' a good wife especially when you know that her presence brings favour and prosperity into your life." His words: "I ‘secured’ my spouse for good reasons. I love her so much and I don't want her to lose her because men chase after her everywhere. Besides, I don't…

Thursday, 13 January 2022 06:12

2023: Now that Tinubu will run... (1) - Bola Bolawole

The masquerade came out in the open on Monday when the governor emeritus of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, confirmed his much-rumoured interest in the 2023 presidential election. Putting aside the hide-and-seek game he had played on the issue, Tinubu announced he would run in 2023. For Tinubu, to all intents and purposes, the race has started! The Jagaban Borgu, thus, is the “early riser” as far as the 2023 presidential race is concerned. Tinubu did not call a press conference or issue a press statement to make his intentions known, although a “world press conference”, as they call it,…

Thursday, 13 January 2022 06:09

Tinubu’s presidency: Affliction must not rise a second time - Abimbola Adelakun

We always knew the day would come when former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu, would declare his interest in running for president. In a country where politics is about seizing power, his presidential ambition has been especially obsessive. After leaving government in 2007, he has been calculatedly amassing the resources that will land him in Aso Rock. Unfortunately, Nigeria cannot afford a Tinubu presidency. Following the Buhari’s locust years with the impotence that Tinubu’s leadership portends is to doom the country. After eight years of maladministration by Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), we cannot waste one more day of our national…

Thursday, 13 January 2022 06:04

Why the 2023 presidential race will be a shot in the dark - Farooq Kperogi

Bola Tinubu’s announcement that he has informed Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to run for president in 2023 has triggered frenetic social media conversations about the 2023 elections. My own prognostication is that the race won’t be as predictable as many people think it will be. Even Aso Rock power brokers are in disarray. Their strategies and choices keep evolving like a kaleidoscope. At some point, they wanted to perpetrate one of their own in power, which would mean ditching the informal but nonetheless politically potent power sharing arrangement between the North and the South. They realized that such a…

Monday, 10 January 2022 05:46

Magodo: Eye-opener on many fronts - Bola Bolawole

Our people have a saying: If you are sent an errand like a slave, deliver it as a free-born. In other words, apply wisdom when running delicate errands. And remember the son or daughter of whom you are - except you lack a worthy pedigree! The Yoruba understand that messengers do find themselves in the dilemma of getting sandwiched between the rock and the hard place. "Yoruba bo, nwon ni" a messenger should fear the one who sent him on an errand and not the person at the receiving end. Don't shy away from your duty but critically consider the…

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:24

Buhari, elo n’koko? - Festus Adedayo

Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari agreed to come out of his cocoon. He granted two interviews between the space of 48 hours, albeit pre-recorded, to Channels TV and the NTA. Since then, the interviews have again provoked discussions on the state of the mind of the president. Upon returning from a seven-week medical trip to the UK in 2017, the mind of the president became a cause for national concern. Since he came into office in 2015, either via covert claim of going to the UK for “a summit and scheduled medical follow-up” or actually seeking leave, ostensibly to meet…

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:23

Buhari should give no more interviews - Farooq A. Kperogi

One of the self-care treats I’ve chosen to indulge in, for my own sanity, is never to torment myself by watching a Muhammadu Buhari interview on television, but a good-natured yet “troublesome” friend of mine for whom I have profound respect never ceases to mischievously tyrannize me by forcing me to watch Buhari’s interviews obviously because he knows that seeing Buhari’s trademark parapraxises and unfailingly disastrous rhetorical incompetence would extract a response from me. It was the friend who first sent me a link to the interview Buhari granted to Channels Television’s Maupe Ogun-Yusuf and Seun Okinbaloye on Thursday. After…

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…

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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…

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