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Sunday, 01 August 2021 06:08

Abba Kyari: Who, what shot the Sheriff? - Festus Adedayo

In the Preface to my book entitled Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of an Apala Legend, (2020) I equated stardom and zenith of social ladder with the purport of a Yoruba wise-saying which says, epo ni mo ru, oniyangi, ma ba t’emi je. This literally translates to mean, anyone who shoulders a heavy gallon of palm oil should avoid the destructive tendency of the stone-laced ground he walks upon. I deployed the above to explain the premature death of Omowura, one of Yoruba’s most evocative traditional African musicians, who was killed 41 years ago, at the apogee of his life…

Sunday, 01 August 2021 06:07

Not by might, but by my Spirit - Taiwo Akinola

This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts ~ Zechariah 4:6b. Introduction: Times do come in our journeys of destiny when we become fully pregnant with royal ideas, but the power to deliver is not showing up even while we push so hard. We may even feel at such times that the invisible barriers against our accomplishments look quite formidable and insurmountable. These irrefragable facts above occasionally resonate with all men and women of great visions in all spheres of human endeavor. But,…

Sunday, 01 August 2021 06:04

Article of Faith: Jesus is the saviour of the Boko Haram - Femi Aribisala

A lawyer asks Jesus about the prerequisites of attaining eternal life. Jesus tells him to love God and love his neighbour. Then he asks: “Who is my neighbour?” Jesus’ answer leads to the story of the Good Samaritan. In that story, the neighbour of the Jew turns out to be the despised Samaritan. Still on this message, John says: “If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have…

Sunday, 01 August 2021 06:03

The lies that have been told about Covid and the vaccine

Tucker Carlson So you got the vaccine because they told you to get it — or they forced you to get it — because as Joe Biden himself explained, it was your patriotic duty to get it to protect yourself and others. Good people do that. The only way we can stop the spread of this virus and return to normal life is by taking the vaccines. If you get the shot, you can have hotdogs on the Fourth of July. Remember when he told you that? So you’d got the shot. Now — surprise, surprise — they’re demanding that…

Saturday, 31 July 2021 05:54

Joe Biden is overseeing one of the largest cuts in legal immigration in history - David J. Bier

While Biden will own this unwelcome distinction, former president Donald Trump staged this disaster last year by barring most immigrants sponsored by their family members from entering the United States. This caused 120,000 family green card slots to go unused. Green cards permit holders to permanently live and work in the United States, and immigration law provides two primary routes to obtain them — sponsorship by family members or by employers. If fewer family-based green cards are issued than are allotted, the law requires that the unused family-based number from one year be added to the cap for employment-based green…

Friday, 30 July 2021 05:56

Benin artifacts and the choice facing Robin Hood - Azu Ishiekwene

When you find two people from the Benin kingdom talking these days, chances are that they are talking artifacts. That kingdom never ceases to amaze me with the mythical, almost perplexing rootedness of its people to the past, side by side with a modern, avantgarde spirit. Not that bread-and-butter issues have disappeared in Bini talk. Or that safety and security are no longer a concern. It’s just that the news of the possible return of artifacts stolen from the Benin kingdom over 120 years ago has somehow displaced current misery, however temporary. Yet, the conversation is also a statement of…

Friday, 30 July 2021 05:55

The travails of single dads - Michael West

It is often said that we are in men's world; this is due to some rights, privileges, and honour that our culture, value system, and gender disparity have bestowed on men. It is ordained from the creation that the man is the head of his woman. Feminism as a movement strives to challenge male dominance and imbalance in social affairs by championing the equal rights crusade. Patriarchy places on man the hegemonic responsibility of administering his family, community and, indeed, the world around him. Being the custodian of culture, divine authority confers these responsibilities on the man. Basically, the man…

Thursday, 29 July 2021 05:46

The chicanery called local government elections - Bola Bolawole

This is not about the PDP or APC or any political party – better still, political platform – for there are really no political parties properly so-called in the present Nigerian political system. What we have are mere political platforms on which politicians contest elections, considering whichever one at any point in time serves their selfish interest. The situation is akin to someone travelling from Point A to Point B who went to the Garage to board a vehicle. He gets there and makes his choice depending on the fares, the type of vehicles available (for his desired comfort), and…

Tuesday, 27 July 2021 05:45

A little geopolitics is a dangerous thing - Harold James

Any hope that Donald Trump’s messy departure from the White House would at least restore a modicum of calm to the world must now be discounted. Already, there is a dangerous new international threat: the return of “geopolitics” in shaping international security. Consider the events of the past six months. Within weeks of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, got into an extraordinary spat with his Chinese counterpart at a bilateral meeting in Alaska. The United States has also tussled with the European Union over Nord Stream 2, a pipeline that will deliver Russian natural gas…

Monday, 26 July 2021 05:36

The travails of Sunday Igboho - Bola Bolawole

In journalism parlance, the Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho story is unfolding; it is yet to reach what in literary terms is called the denouement. Denouement is defined as “the final part of a play, film or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved” It may take some time before the Igboho story reaches its “final part” when all “the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved” It is, however, also a running story, again in journalistic terms; meaning that fresh angles, fresh facts,…

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Sunday, 25 July 2021 05:54

Oga, dem don kidnap Nigeria - Tatalo Alamu

It was the time of emergency and the season of kidnappers. The entire country was reeling under the hammer of intrepid kidnappers with the state itself a potential victim. What began as isolated cases of errant militancy in the Niger Delta has now graduated into a national industry requiring a major federal intervention. Snooper returned from a historic visit to South Africa only to find that he had himself walked into a well-laid domestic ambush. Okon and Baba Lekki had kidnapped the entire house. The only section that was yet to fall into the hands of the rebels was snooper’s…

Sunday, 25 July 2021 05:52

Sunday Igboho and allegory of Asantehene Golden Stool - Festus Adedayo

Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa was just a mother and farmer who spiced her vocation with being an intellectual, politician and human rights activist. Living in a confederate Gold Coast, now Ghana, riven by a civil war of 1883 to 1888, the moment the British exiled Asantewaa’s brother and the King of Asante Prempeh 1 to the Seychelles in 1896, a fertile ground was laid for a deadly rebellion against British rule in Ashanti land. Frederick Hogston, Governor General of the Gold Coast, hastened the rebellion. By obstinately demanding for the Golden Stool which was the symbol of the Ashanti…

Sunday, 25 July 2021 05:50

When the Holy Spirit comes - Taiwo Akinola

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him ~ Acts 10:38. Introduction: God is the Constant Helper of His anointed, most especially, when they rely on His power and avail themselves of it. The Omnipotent God defends them, and He constantly exerts every effort in their favour. It is worthy of note that, in spite of all the battles that David fought, his enemies were never able to prevail against him. Rather, he decisively subdued every…

Sunday, 25 July 2021 05:49

Article of faith: Enduring to the end - Femi Aribisala

One day, as I was reading Jesus’ Sermon of the Mount yet again, I suddenly heard the Lord say to me, deep within my spirit-man: “Femi, the end justifies the means.” What does this have to do with the beatitudes? Can we, should we, justify the end by the means? Is it godly to do so? I decided to search the scriptures for the answer. Immediately, the whole thing opened to me like a book. I discovered that, in the kingdom of God, the end always justifies the means. Does this mean it is okay to rob a bank, as…

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