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Monday, 28 June 2021 05:50

The TB Joshua I knew... (II) - Bola Bolawole

Prophet T also tried to match-make for me at the Synagogue. One day as we were in his sitting room, he sent for a lady; the lady came and knelt down at his feet. I cannot remember what they discussed but after she left, Prophet T turned to me and said “Se e like lady yen?” (Do you like that lady?). According to him, she was a good girl. By this time a bonding had developed between Prophet T and me; so I actually gave his proposition a thought. The next day on my way to the Synagogue, I muted…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:49

The fear-mongering and misinformation around Covid vaccines - Taiwo Maxwell Adeyemi

When the Covid-19 pandemic started in late 2019, there was an uneasy calm across the globe. Eeventually the unseen enemy reached our shores in early 2020 and subsequently the World Health Organization [WHO] announced a global pandemic. What followed on social and mainstream media was a barrage of information, misinformation, scientific news, conspiracy theories, truths, lies, good, bad and ugly pieces of write ups and videos in a concoction that are daily consumed by discerning as well as gullible persons all around the world. As we speak, there is still much information released especially on social media that is toxic,…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:48

In Bitcoin we trust? - Paola Subacchi

Many regard the market for Bitcoin – the world’s leading cryptocurrency – as a game of winners and losers played out among hedge funds, amateur investors, geeks, and criminals. The huge risk inherent in a highly volatile anonymous digital currency is best left to those who understand the game well, or who don’t really care because they can mitigate the risk or absorb any losses. But Bitcoin recently has become more attractive for countries and individuals with limited access to conventional payment systems – that is, those least equipped to manage the underlying risk. Earlier this month, El Salvador became…

Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:06

Bewitching Chidinma and this Water Bottle generation - Festus Adedayo

Chidinma Ojukwu is beautiful, enchanting and voluptuous. No wonder predominant comments – especially from men-folk – on this 21-year old self-confessed killer of Lagos-based 50-year old Usifo Ataga, CEO of Super TV, are wrapped in the poser: was she a lethal, destructive woman the French call the femme fatale, or victim of a delinquent higher institution girls’ sex trade that turned awry? The story of Chidinma, student of the University of Lagos, which is trending on the social media radar at the moment, is riveting. It is a perfect script for a crime fiction thriller. She courted massive traffic to…

Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:05

Total deliverance on Mount Zion (3) - Taiwo Akinola

When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him ~ Mark 9:25. Introduction: The ministry of casting out demons is a present day ministry of the Holy Spirit. It is a kingdom normal, so to speak. Jesus vigorously engaged Himself in it, and He also commanded His disciples to do so (Matthew 10:1, 8). You cannot counsel or medicate demons. When an issue is demonic, deliverance is the only solution. Jesus knew this! That…

Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:03

Article of faith: Don’t worry about a thing - Femi Aribisala

In the 1990s, I owned a profitable chain of video-rental shops. Early on, I got the business computerised. Nevertheless, I lived in constant fear that suddenly, without warning, the system would break down, leading to loss of valuable data and income. One day, the very thing I feared came upon me: The system broke down. Worst of all, it happened in my most profitable shop in Victoria Island. I tried all the different “fixes” prescribed by the program manual but to no avail. After a while, somebody put on a children’s Christian video, and, at the end of my wits,…

Friday, 25 June 2021 05:55

A president’s ‘missing’ iPad and other perils - Azu Ishiekwene

Awkward moments are human, and hardly call attention when mere mortals are involved. But when the high and mighty trip, they make the headlines. Both experts and lay people sometimes feel obliged to ask if such awkward moments may not indeed, like Freudian slip, mean more than meets the eye. And quite often their suspicions are right. Take former US President, Donald Trump, for example. In his four-year Presidency, awkwardness was not occasional accident, it was the defining thing, the essential Trump. From telling the wife of French President Brigitte Macron that she was “in good shape”, to tossing paper…

Friday, 25 June 2021 05:54

Requiems for dads as widows adjust, enjoy - Michael West

Last Sunday's celebration of Father's Day, to every man, was a reminder of the stark reality of emptiness and vanity of life. In appreciating and celebrating responsible fathers, many people, men in particular, took to their social media platforms to write or share posts that depicted the mood of men in sober reflection on their lives, their labour and why they die rather "early" comparatively. They live and toil for the survival of their families, provide for the needs of their dependants and be there for their loved ones, friends and the society, but not many care about them. More…

Thursday, 24 June 2021 05:04

Transparency, openness, and accountability: JAMB’s shining example - Bola Bolawole

“If I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter” – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd United States of America president (1801 – 1809). A government that gags the press has something to hide. Any government that vilifies the media has skeletons in its cupboard. You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide. Good conscience fears no foe but the sinner runneth even when no one pursueth. So, a government that runs from the media is a government that has sinned and which does not want its sins…

Tuesday, 22 June 2021 05:39

Let us separate peacefully - Tola Adeniyi

At one point or the other every known political leader in this contraption created by British commercial interest and greed, has described Nigeria as a mistake, a mere geographical expression, a marriage of contradictions, a clog in the wheel of the nationalities forcibly yoked together, an unworkable entity, or an outright tragedy. There is no negative word in the dictionary of every language spoken in the Nigeria space that has not been used to describe the country viewed as a giant zoo with tigers and sheep, hyenas and pigs, hawks and chickens locked up in one borderless and un-demarcated cage.…

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Monday, 21 June 2021 05:40

What explains America’s antagonism toward China? - Zhang Jun

Last month, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee officially backed the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, which labels China a strategic competitor in a number of areas, including trade, technology, and security. Given bipartisan support – exceedingly rare in the United States nowadays – Congress will most likely pass the bill, and President Joe Biden will sign it. With that, America’s antagonism toward China would effectively become enshrined in US law. The Strategic Competition Act purports to highlight supposed “malign behaviors” in which China engages to attain an “unfair economic advantage” and the “deference” of other countries to “its political…

Sunday, 20 June 2021 05:58

Okon and wild Rastafarian nabbed on Democracy Day - Tatalo Alamu

To Opambata Police Station near Alapere where Baba Lekki was engaged in a battle of will and wits to free Okon and a feral Rastafarian calling himself Jah Jamaica over subversive activities on Democracy Day. The sparse demonstration ended in brisk dispersal and in tears and teargas as the police clinically steamrolled the protesters, forcing a few of them to sit on the wet grass. Democracy Day began on a tense and uneasy note with police issuing stern orders to troublemakers to keep off the street. It was a strange way to celebrate democracy, with an ill-tempered law enforcement agency…

Sunday, 20 June 2021 05:53

The TB Joshua I knew (I) - Bola Bolawole

Monica (not real name) took me to the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN or Synagogue, for short). One of her daughters had demonstrated signs of Sickle Cell anaemia (SS) and, ooh, how she ran from pillar to post! She patronised hospitals to no avail, spending a fortune. Then she heard of TB Joshua and the Synagogue and decided to visit. Anything and everything – just to receive help. And she did believe she received help. Whatever anyone said did not matter to her. On my first day at the Synagogue I asked many questions. Most of the people around…

Sunday, 20 June 2021 05:51

Reincarnating Mugabe, the Black Hitler, in Lai Mohammed - Festus Adedayo

Let them hate me, as long as they fear me – Caligula, Roman Emperor (37 to 41 AD) All through history, even with the advent of modernism, despots who hate the power of free speech always have their own version of repressive ancient monarchies’ abenilori. These were the ones entrusted with the task of beheading opponents, literally or metaphorically. While Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe had his in Minister of Information and Publicity, Jonathan Nathaniel Mlevu Moyo, President Muhammadu Buhari has Lai Mohammed, his Minister of Information and Culture. History recorded that Mugabe’s Moyo lent himself as a tool in…

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