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Sunday, 17 October 2021 05:54

Breaking through the limitations of life - Taiwo Akinola

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron ~ Isaiah 45:2. Introduction: Inside every man is a complex ability that can make him as invincible as God his Maker (Psalm 8:4-6). We were created as replicas of divinity, and endowed with the innate ability to stretch ourselves beyond any limitation to live in perpetual dominion (Genesis 1:26-28). Simply put, we were made to be indomitable! None of us was created to be curtailed, gagged or restrained, and none was made…

Sunday, 17 October 2021 05:52

Article of faith: God is the troublemaker (2) - Femi Aribisala

God is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and End of all things. (Revelation 1:8). Accordingly, He not only brings trouble to men, but He also redeems men from trouble. The psalmist says: “God turns man to destruction.” (Psalm 90:3). But he also acknowledges that it is God who redeems our life from destruction. (Psalm 103:4). Here is the kingdom dynamic: “The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.” (1 Samuel 2:6-7). “He bruises, but He binds up; He…

Friday, 15 October 2021 05:27

How I remember #EndSARS one year after - Azu Ishiekwene

On October 3, 2020, I watched a video of a policeman attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) shooting a young man in front of Wetland Hotel, Ughelli, Delta State. Initial reports after the young man was shot said the shooter and other policemen in his company drove off in a car belonging to the victim, leaving him in a pool of his own blood. Another version of the story emerged later that the young man was not dead, but was injured after he jumped out of a moving police van operated by the Delta State local security network. Two…

Friday, 15 October 2021 05:25

Sex video: Tiwa Savage's romantic misadventure - Michael West

Unless it truly turns out to be a publicity stunt and a hoax aimed at gaining media blitz as alleged in some quarters, Tiwa Savage, a sultry songstress and dancer, will be doing an incalculable discredit to her public image if her sex romp video tape should surface in the public domain. For all intents and purposes, I couldn't come to any acceptable reason to rationalise why a diva like Tiwa should get so enamoured with romantic fantasy and sexual adventure to the extent of allowing her sex romp with her lover to be filmed. It is sheer stupidity. Tiwa,…

Sunday, 10 October 2021 06:07

State of emergency: Why only Anambra? - Bola Bolawole

The Presidency or, better still, the Attorney-General of the Federal Government and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has reportedly threatened Anambra state with a state of emergency; his ostensible reason being the killing spree ongoing in the entire South-east region, Anambra inclusive. Some have attributed the killings to Independence-seeking Igbo under the umbrella of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu, currently in detention in Abuja after his reported abduction from Kenya by the Nigeria government and or its agents. Others have fingered an arm of the security agencies as having a hand in the killings. Government…

Sunday, 10 October 2021 06:06

Jonathan, Buhari cuckolding in war time - Festus Adedayo

Last Wednesday, Muhammadu Buhari and his newfound friend, Goodluck Jonathan, locked each other inside the sacristy of the Nigerian presidential Villa, christened Aso Rock. When they came out afterwards, both wore the visage of 3-year old Syrian girl, Salwa and Cuckold, a 1997 book written by Indian, Kiran Nagarkar. Cuckold, a historical novel patterned after the narrative of Maharaj Kumar, may in a way explain the recent hot and adulterous romance between Jonathan and Buhari. In the book, Kumar had attempted to win his wife, Mira’s affections in the midst of a ravaging war in the land. Set in the…

Sunday, 10 October 2021 06:04

Reigning in life by Christ Jesus - Taiwo Akinola

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ ~ Romans 5:17. Introduction: The subject of dominion is quintessential to the Christian life. It cannot be over-emphasized neither should it ever be overlooked on our journeys of destiny. In fact, failing to give sufficient attention to it may result in being dominated upon by situations one does not understand and may be unable to control. Since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,…

Sunday, 10 October 2021 06:02

Article of faith: God is the troublemaker (1) - Femi Aribisala

Armed robbers broke into a man’s house. They cornered him in his bedroom. In desperation, he pleaded to be allowed to say his last prayer. His assailants were amused. They told him to go ahead but make it brief. The man went down on his knees. “Father,” he cried silently, “I need you to deliver me. Don’t let me die like this.” He had barely started the prayer when sirens were heard. The robbers panicked and made a dash for it, leaving behind everything they had gathered. He later discovered there was a fire two buildings away from his house.…

Friday, 08 October 2021 05:42

What Mark Zuckerberg’s trial says about us - Azu Ishiekwene

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is having a torrid time. One by one, his worst fears are coming true. According to Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, authors of An Ugly Truth, a scathing tell-all on Zuckerberg and his second-in-command, Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook founder has been troubled for years by three deadly fears: the prospect of hackers breaching the site, his employees being harmed, and the breakup of his empire. He’s had them coming for the past five years, at least. But in just one week, his deadly fears have not only come to him with chairs, they have…

Friday, 08 October 2021 05:40

‘My husband torments me, but I need him badly' - Michael West

A 44-year-old woman is at the verge of quitting her marriage because her husband is tired of continuously "wasting his time, energy and body fluids" without any child to show for it. Getting him to sleep with his wife who is desperately and anxiously waiting on God for the fruits of the womb is said to be an arduous task. According to the woman, "my husband is adding to my sorrow and frustration as a waiting woman. Only God knows what is actually responsible for needy situations like mine. I have tried all I could in terms of medical and…

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Thursday, 07 October 2021 05:46

That peace may return to ‘Great Ife’ - Bola Bolawole

For the umpteenth time, peace at the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Ile-Ife was shattered last week as the students trooped into the streets to protest the very sad, very unfortunate, and very untimely death of one of their colleagues, 24-year-old Omowumi Aishat Adesina, a Part 4 student in the Department of Foreign Languages, allegedly as a result of the nonchalance and negligence of the institution’s Health Centre. According to a statement issued by OAU’s PRO, Biodun Olarewaju, Omowumi “reported to the Health Centre with signs and symptoms of a severe infection” on Tuesday, 28th September and…

Monday, 04 October 2021 05:50

Justice Olugbemi: The evils of ‘Federal Character’ revisited - Bola Bolawole

Recently, governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, got characteristically loquacious, uncouth, and irascible talking down on his fellow southern Nigeria counterparts, many of whom are his betters by dint of hard work, intellect, and industry and not the undue advantage bestowed by an atrocious “quota-this” and “quota-that” federal character system. El-Rufai’s grouse was the principled position taken by the southern governors at their latest meeting of Saturday, 16th September, 2021 held in Enugu where they insisted the next president in 2023 should come from the South. This is what many consider the most reasonable and logical thing to do, not…

Sunday, 03 October 2021 06:06

What weed did Buhari’s speech writers smoke? - Farooq A. Kperogi

I’ve stopped bothering to listen to or read Muhammadu Buhari’s speeches for quite a while now not only because I’ve given up on the regime he leads but also because he has some of the most inept speech writers Nigeria has ever had, particularly in the last two years. But a portion of the speech a friend shared with me instigated me to read the entire speech. The speech was, as usual, vacuous, insipid, poorly written, tediously mind-numbing, and filled with audaciously transparent lies. Nonetheless, even by the horrible standards of Buhari's speeches, his October 1, 2021 Independence Day speech…

Sunday, 03 October 2021 06:04

Buhari’s October 1 rhetoric, Mailafia and Akunyili's murder - Festus Adedayo

I find a symbolic similarity between the travails of Chike Akunyili and Richard Henry Stone, (1837–1915) the latter’s which I picked from his memoir that contained his missionary activities in Nigeria entitled, In Africa’s Forest And Jungles. Stone was an American missionary who came to Africa during the nineteenth century to represent the Southern Baptist Convention and who spent years among the Yoruba-speaking people of Western Nigeria. He lived in Ijaye, Abeokuta, and Lagos and traveled to “Ibadan, Lahlookpon, Ewo, Ogbomishaw, and Oyo” in his own words. For both Stone and Akunyili, I struggled, with scant success, to reconstruct the…

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