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Friday, 29 January 2021 05:19

Girls beware, Yahoo guys are desperate - Michael West

Warn your girls! Wicked and desperate guys on the prowl for money rituals are on the increase. Warn your girls! How we got to this level of moral and spiritual decadence in which teenagers are now desperate to become overnight multimillionaires without any legitimate source of income is bewildering. I can't understand why some parents rather than scold, expose and whip their children to the path of sanity, decency and morality have chosen to either look the other way or even facilitate the evil process for their ill-groomed children. I got piqued when I read in the media about mothers…

Thursday, 28 January 2021 05:03

The First Amendment is no excuse for letting social media companies do whatever they want

Private corporations have far too much power over the flow of ideas and information in today’s society. There is a rich historical irony to the fact that today, conservatives are the ones who argue most forcefully that the decisions by private companies to “deplatform” certain speakers threaten what President Donald Trump described in 2020 as the “bedrock” American right to freedom of speech. Until very recently, this was an argument made almost exclusively by those on the left. The decision by Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other social-media outlets to ban Trump from their platforms after the January 6…

Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:55

Igangan, Igboho and the burden of history - Bola Bolawole

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, which occurred on 28 June, 1914 in the little-known village of Sarajevo (located in today’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, formerly a part of the Republic of Yugoslavia), not only signalled the beginning of the First World War (1914 – 1918), it also catapulted Sarajevo to the world stage. Prior to that date, many disputes had taken place that could have led to war but which did not; an otherwise innocuous event was what ignited the first global war…

Wednesday, 27 January 2021 05:13

China’s debt grip on Africa - Paola Subacchi

The pandemic is confronting highly indebted poor countries with a fateful dilemma. As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, lamented last April, leaders have been forced to choose whether to “continue to pay toward debt or redirect resources to save lives and livelihoods.” And when they choose the latter, it is often China – Africa’s biggest bilateral lender – to which they have to answer. According to Ahmed, a moratorium on debt payments was essential to enable Ethiopia to respond to Covid-19. Such a moratorium would save Ethiopia – one of the world’s poorest countries –…

Tuesday, 26 January 2021 05:24

The Internet versus Democracy - Stephen S. Roach

In an era of mounting social and political instability in the United States, internet-enabled connectivity is powerfully amplifying an increasingly polarized national discourse. The resulting vulnerability was brought into painfully sharp focus on January 6. Plenty has been said, and rightfully so, about the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. Politicians are grappling with issues of legal and moral accountability. But the horrific events also touch on a critical contradiction of modern societies: the internet’s role as an instrument of democracy’s destruction. It was not supposed to be this way. The internet’s open architecture has long been…

Monday, 25 January 2021 04:02

Sunday Igboho and the threat of war - Femi Fani-Kayode

For soldiers to escort murderous Fulani herdsmen back to a community in Ogun state from which they were earlier evicted and then to publicly whip members of that community for evicting them simply beggars belief. Have the people of the South West now become slaves in their father’s land? Have we finally been conquered and occupied? It is utterly mind-blowing. It is wicked. It is evil. It is unacceptable. How much more bloodshed, carnage, violence, insults and humiliation are the people of the South West expected to take? Soldiers are whipping our people like dogs in the street in order…

Monday, 25 January 2021 04:01

Sunday Igboho: This is not a drill - Yomi Lawal

It was a typical work day on Asabo Platform, it was lunch time. I was the last in the control room and made the usual 2hourly check around the oil production platform. Simple task: Listen to the huge centrifugal pumps sending our oil for onward theft by the Fulanis who control the NNPC, take production rates that would later be doctored by the criminals robbing your nation dry and look for anything out of place in the noisy and creaky old platform built in the late 70s. This was early 2000s. I peeked into the lower switchgear room - through…

Monday, 25 January 2021 03:59

The Seyi Makinde-Sunday Igboho tango and the pathway to a secure Nigeria - Olarinre Salako

The recent altercation between Governor Seyi Makinde and a private citizen, Sunday Igboho and, more importantly, the emerging dimension to the perennial insecurity in Nigeria should catch the attention of concerned Nigerians home and abroad. "Individuals who are not authorized are going around chasing people from their homes and causing mayhem. This assault on residents of Oyo State is not the way to further the Yoruba cause." Makinde said. Makinde apparently was referring to the action Igboho, who recently ordered the alleged kidnapping and murderous kingpins in Ibarapa zone of Oyo State out of the town where they are residents…

Monday, 25 January 2021 03:57

Now, it’s time to talk ‘Cement’ - Bola Bolawole

Last December 2020, I bought a bag of cement for between N2,000 and N2,200 but in the first week of January 2021, the price of a bag of cement had jumped to between N4,000 and N4,300! Cement had become like the other essential commodities (essenco) such as rice, beans, garri, tatase, tomato, rodo, onions, soft drinks and beer (not to talk of chicken, fish, beef, ponmon and transportation costs) that hit the roof during the yuletide period! The amazing thing about the cement price hike is that those who claim to know say we can import cement at the current…

Sunday, 24 January 2021 05:48

Much ado about dissolution - Tola Adeniyi

What is the big deal about dissolution of a marriage, any marriage that does not work and may not ever likely work? I remember a former Israeli Defence minister Moshe Dayan whose marriage collapsed after 32 years. And I am talking of a marriage that was voluntarily entered into, freely negotiated by the families of the bride and bridegroom before marriage was consummated. Marriages are regularly dissolved all over the world regardless of how many years the couple had spent together, regardless of how many children between them and how huge the investments the couple made while the going was…

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Sunday, 24 January 2021 05:47

Who shall tell the President Nigeria is dying? - Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, please, take note of the title of my column this week. I did not say Nigerians are dying. That is stale news, as well as an understatement. My focus is that the country called Nigeria is dying. I do not know what sort of security briefing President Muhammadu Buhari, regularly or periodically, receives from his obviously reticent and incompetent security team. I doubt it includes the fact that Nigeria is speeding towards a monumental collapse, unless a miracle, or something drastic is done to stop this supersonic drift towards perdition. It might even be that the President does…

Sunday, 24 January 2021 05:45

Sunday Igboho and the spirit of Ogbori Elemoso - Festus Adedayo

Two of Yorubaland’s most prized states’ helmsmen – Governors Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and Seyi Makinde – have made very strong but seemingly diametrically opposed positions on the security of their people, making it the most talked about issue in the nation today. In recent time, their Ondo and Oyo States have become hotbeds of the scalding hot security crises in Northeastern and Northwestern Nigeria. Flakes of the unending years of savage Boko Haram war in the Northeast are whooshing gently but destructively and settling on Western Nigeria. Fleeing displaced Northerners who escape to the bosom of Oduduwa are stretching Southwest space…

Sunday, 24 January 2021 05:44

Seyi Makinde: The making of a new traitor - Rèmí Oyèyemí

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."- Thomas Jefferson I have just read the text of a speech delivered by Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, threatening Yorùbá sons and daughters in Ibarapa area of the Pacesetter State, who are trying to protect their families from the murdering Fulani herdsmen. He is asking Ibarapa sons and daughters, in the mode of that sentry of misery, Femi Adesina, that they give up their freedom and liberty, their lives and land. The speech which with enthusiasm, excoriated Yorùbá victims of Fulani murders, kidnappings, raping and arson, smacks of rant of a favoured…

Sunday, 24 January 2021 05:43

Overruling the decrees of darkness - Taiwo Akinola

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime ~ Daniel 6:10. Introduction Every excellent position naturally attracts big opposition. Some negative forces will conspire against you if truly there is anything enviable in your destiny. Nevertheless, with God on your side, your head will still be above water, no matter the adversaries. But you must stand your ground in faith and become who…

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