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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…

Friday, 06 August 2021 05:56

What Jega didn’t say about APC and PDP - Azu Ishiekwene 

The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, got himself in soup last week. His offence was saying it is futile to compare Nigeria’s two main political parties - the All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Without mincing his words, he said there’s nothing to compare and nothing to choose from and that both were the refuge of scoundrels. That comment has earned him a beating to hell and back at the hands of members of both parties. It’s not new that political parties have rotten roots, but they evolve. America’s founding fathers…

Friday, 06 August 2021 05:55

Erectile dysfunction: In limbo of sexless marriage - Michael West

Only recently, it dawned on me that not a few married women are in limbo of hopeless sexual inactivity in their marriages. Let’s disregard the facade of happiness and superficial fulfillment some women display outside, many of them are in silent agony over sexual dysfunction of their husbands. Quite pathetically, several of such men are being ravaged by chronic underlying health challenges aggravated by poorly treated sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Some of the men may be dealing with diabetes, acute stress or malignant health conditions that could render them completely inactive in the bedroom. While the sufferers could understandably endure…

Thursday, 05 August 2021 05:45

Globalization strikes back - Richard Haass

The summer of 2021 has come to be largely defined by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and accelerating climate change. Both are manifestations of globalization and the reality of a world increasingly defined by the vast and fast cross-border flows of just about everything, from goods, services, and capital to data, terrorists, and disease. Little nowadays stays local for long. The lethal coronavirus that first appeared in Wuhan, China did not remain there, and greenhouse gases emitted anywhere warm the atmosphere and ocean everywhere. These two crises demonstrate the woeful inadequacy of efforts to address the problematic aspects of globalization. The…

Wednesday, 04 August 2021 05:54

5 final thoughts on Abba Kyari and Hushpuppi - Farooq Kperogi

1. As with everything Nigerian, the Abba Kyari/Hushpuppi fraud case has taken on a predictably ethnoreligious hue. I’ve read some people claim that Kyari is being targeted by America because he is a Muslim. Ha! Well, Hushpuppi is also a Muslim. His full name is Ramon Olorunwa Abbas. Most Muslims will recognize Abbas as a Muslim name but probably not Ramon. Ramon is the Yoruba Muslim domestication of Abdulrahman. Read my July 13, 2014 column titled “Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names” to understand how Abdulrahman became Ramon (which is also sometimes rendered as Ramonu or…

Tuesday, 03 August 2021 05:45

Democracy needs discomfort and distrust is a political virtue - Meena Krishnamurthy

The American political theorist Danielle Allen worries about our tendency, from an early age, to avoid talking with strangers. She sees this as leading to a greater likelihood of distrusting people – people that we must trust and talk to, if we aspire to a healthy democracy. ‘Congealed distrust’, she argues in Talking to Strangers (2004), undermines the grounds for civic friendship – that is, friendship between citizens – which is necessary for a well-functioning and robust democracy. ‘Democracy depends on trustful talk among strangers,’ she writes. When this talk is ‘properly conducted’ it can ‘dissolve any divisions that block’…

Monday, 02 August 2021 05:43

NYSC: Any relevance in today’s Nigeria? - Bola Bolawole

I heard this joke on social media: A man was asked to define the difference between the PDP and APC; he said: Under PDP, when someone dies, cows are slaughtered to bury the person; but under APC, when a cow dies, human beings are slaughtered to bury the cow! Akika!! Last Wednesday, five prospective NYSC members travelling to the NYSC orientation camp lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident. According to a release issued by NYSC Director of Press and Media Relations, Adenike Adeyemi, the five victims were from Akwa Ibom and Imo states and the accident occurred around…

Monday, 02 August 2021 05:42

Man’s ephemeral nature - Agba Jalingo

I have visited my 120 years old grandmother and given her some money when I was leaving and she told me she doesn't need money again. That she can no longer buy nor sell at her age, so I should give the money to the younger ones who need it. I also have a former governor friend whom I worked with as a greenhorn journalist. He was governor from 1999-2007. Not too long ago, I saw him. After check in, he was left seated by the corner of the Murtala Mohammed international airport awaiting his flight. No one even recognized…

Sunday, 01 August 2021 06:09

Abba Kyari and his red flags of vulgar exhibitionism - Farooq A. Kperogi

Although there is no art to decipher the cunning of crooked cops, Abba Kyari gave us many red flags to cause us to be suspicious of his policing, but many people ignored them. I, for one, have an abiding suspicion of people who are given to gratuitous self-congratulation and ostentation, who are aggressively self-promotional, and who perpetually have a need to invite the public to witness their good deeds. I think excessive showiness often betrays an inner emptiness at best and an artful concealment of untoward impulses and deeds at worst. This sentiment is encapsulated in such enduring pieces of…

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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…

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