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Sunday, 15 August 2021 05:57

The Kabiyesiness in the Buhari, Tinubu UK photo - Festus Adedayo

There was this conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and Al Jazeera television held in Qatar in March, 2016. That interview explains the imperialness, the Kabiyesi-ness in Buhari and his feudal reasoning which often clashes with the constitutional requirements of his office as president of Nigeria. It also rubbishes Nigerians’ hoopla against the president’s oft recourse to medical exile in the United Kingdom at the drop of a hat. The conversation came at the height of a foreign exchange crisis that the Buhari government sank Nigeria into. Sitting regally like the Emir of Daura on a gold-plated chair, in the front…

Sunday, 15 August 2021 05:56

My God and my source - Taiwo Akinola

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus ~ Philippians 4:19. Introduction: One of the strongest instruments the devil uses against the Body of Christ today is the yoke of poverty and insufficiency. This is because scarcity and dearth easily serve his battlecry of containment against the Church. And sadly, many believers are totally unaware of this. Scarcity is a strangulating spirit, and it can make life quite unbearable. However, God’s unflinching desire is to amply supply His people with resources from the base of glory in Christ Jesus. This is…

Sunday, 15 August 2021 05:54

Article of faith: The thief in the night - Femi Aribisala

Our God is a God of miracles. But sometimes He chooses to heal. Miracles are instantaneous: but healing is a process. Miracles are clinical, but healing is relational. With healing, we get to know the Doctor. We experience His loving-kindness. We realize He is a comforter. We then know we have a High Priest who is deeply touched by the feeling of our infirmities. When we are afflicted, the Lord is afflicted as well. He bears our griefs and carries our sorrows. If we understand that the purpose of life is to know God, then whatever it takes to know…

Sunday, 15 August 2021 05:53

Be the watcher. Watch your mind (1) - Agba Jalingo

This morning, you are either Happy, Angry, Depressed or Anxious about something. But never mind. Happiness, Anger, Depression, and Anxiety are identified as the most prevalent emotions in our culture. Happiness about life. Anger about the present. Depression about the past and Anxiety about the future. A tremendous amount of suffering is experienced with these emotions but the bright side is that, emotions are impermanent by their very nature. They move and continuously change from one emotion to another. You have never had an emotion that did not change. You have never experienced an emotion that never ended. You have…

Saturday, 14 August 2021 05:26

Back in the air! - Folu Olamiti

To many frequent air travelers around the world, the year 2020 was a horrible one. It was the year of the great plague. It was the year the deadly Covid-19 crept on the world like a boar constrictor, stretched it to its limits, and attempted to snuff its life out. The pandemic was so deadly in its effects that citizens of the world were caged in their homes. All over the world, human traffic and all sorts of movements were either partially restricted or outrightly barred. World economies crumbled. Even America, the world’s number one economy, was at its knees,…

Saturday, 14 August 2021 05:25

Asking to secede is legal, biblical and democratic - Agba Jalingo

Apart from the presumption of innocence until proven guilty mantra, I have been asking myself what is so heinous or felonious about the agitations of Nigeria's secessionists. Axiomatically, the root motivator of these agitations is entrenched, systemic and protracted injustice plus the desire for political and economic inclusion. Even in modern times, secessionist grumblings have found their chair on the Democratic round table, including the UN, with dignity and aplomb. After several decades of painstaking consultations, debates and research, the United Nations General Assembly in September 2007, comprehensively defined and declared the “Rights Of Indigenous Peoples.” This basket of rights…

Friday, 13 August 2021 05:49

An encounter with a doctor: It’s your life - Azu Ishiekwene

This is not a good time to talk about medical doctors, especially when those in the public sector are on strike to press for better conditions of service. But I didn’t choose this encounter; the encounter chose me. And, in any case, my own experience was not at a public hospital. I have heard of all sorts of patient-doctor stories before and taken a good many with a pinch of salt. Too often, we hardly get to hear of the extraordinary courage and devotion of doctors and other medical personnel who give so much under extremely difficult - and even…

Friday, 13 August 2021 05:48

Child rejection: Men must be fathers indeed - Michael West

The institution of marriage was not intended to be burdensome, endured or challenging by God but our sinful nature, waywardness and intentional disconnect from the principles of holy matrimony have brought the unsavory experiences that characterise many unhappy homes today. From the available data, shared experiences and regular encounters I have with married people, not a few will choose to quit their marriages and stay single than to continue in "slavery" or endure "torture" just to please the society or satisfy religious hypocrisy. Fundamentally, marriage is meant to be enjoyed as a blissful home for the couple and their children.…

Tuesday, 10 August 2021 05:56

Three idols - Sam Omatseye

The first abused glamour. The second abused money. The third abused power. They became a triune of impunity, but they thrived in the tribunal of a vain and idolatrous generation. The stories of Hushpuppi, Obi Cubana and Abba Kyari only show how they make a mockery of money and hard work in this country. They were the odds and ends of the Nigerian contemporary culture, the alliance of decay. Ironically, they are not on the fringe of society. The likes of them have become the mainstream. Those who pissed on the river’s edge have polluted the whole body of water.…

Monday, 09 August 2021 05:40

PDP: Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind - Bola Bolawole

Embattled Uche Secondus was elected PDP National Working Committee chairman after a bitterly contested election held at the Eagles Square, Abuja on 10th December, 2017. Staunchly backed by PDP governors ably led by Rivers State’s Nyesom Wike and the then Ekiti State gov. Ayodele Fayose, Secondus trounced three other contenders, scoring 2,000 votes. One-time Minister of Education, Tunde Adeniran, came a distant second with 230 votes, AIT’s owner, Raymond Dokpesi, scored 66 votes while Taoheed Adedoja, another one-time Minister of Sports and Special Duties, scored zero votes. Nine aspirants earlier cleared for the contest withdrew before the D-Day when it…

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Sunday, 08 August 2021 05:58

Nigeria and collapse of foreign investment - Joel Popoola

Nigeria’s population is exploding while its economy is shrinking. Which is why financial figures released this week make such scary reading. Forecasts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predict economic growth in Nigeria to be just a third of the global figure for 2021. And statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics showed a 61% year-on-year decline in foreign money flowing in Nigeria. This means fewer and fewer international customers for Nigerian businesses, and crucially, fewer and fewer investment capital for Nigerian companies. International businesses and investors spent $2.8bn in Nigeria in the first half of 2021. In the first…

Sunday, 08 August 2021 05:55

Is Babangida also a master satirist? - Festus Adedayo

In 1964, the Nigerian Tribune’s editorial comment, entitled Where do we go from here?, a scurrilous attack on the Premier, Ladoke Akintola’s government of the Western Region, published on April 16 of that year, landed its editor, Ilobu, now Osun State-born Ayo Ojewumi, alias Pen Atalanta, in a hot soup of sedition charges. The comment contained one of the newspaper’s most mordant strictures ever. It labeled the Akintola government’s actions “awful, stinking, disgraceful and ugly,” and accused it of “reckless squandermania and abuse of office.” Last Friday, while fielding questions from the Arise TV, self-styled military president, Ibrahim Babangida, attempted…

Sunday, 08 August 2021 05:54

Great outpouring of the Holy Spirit - Taiwo Akinola

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions ~ Joel 2:28. Introduction: To duly move forward in destiny, we must study to be part of God’s quintessential move in our generation. The Church of Jesus Christ began with power, purity and purpose, and it must continue so if we are to properly glorify God on earth. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit refers to the pouring out of His personality, power…

Sunday, 08 August 2021 05:52

Article of faith: Jesus is the saviour of the Boko Haram (2) - Femi Aribisala

Several years ago, armed robbers visited the church premises of a famous Nigerian bishop and attacked some banks there. The bishop was greatly offended, and he cursed them. He directed his church members to pray that the wrath of God would be visited on the criminals. He also cursed kidnappers operating in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He asked God to kill them all. He said: “We place a curse on their roots wherever they are, and we pray that thunders of heaven will strike, and the judgment of God will come upon them.” Later, the bishop also descended…

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