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Friday, 22 January 2021 05:50

Facing 2021: Notes to the Nigerian Left - Edwin Madunagu

The last paragraph of my last published article for the year 2020, titled “Study notes on state and state failure” (December 22) started with a number of questions to the Nigerian Left. Please note that, our wishes notwithstanding, we do not see or present the Nigerian Left, as of today, as an undifferentiated entity. Rather, we realistically see it as a movement of various segments and fighting vanguards united by a common history of successes and failures as well as commitment, faith and hope. The questions were: “So, judging from the multitude of crises partially listed in the opening paragraph…

Friday, 22 January 2021 05:48

Ebele Obiano’s designer vaccination - Azu Ishiekwene

Whether Jean-Jacques Rousseau mis-credited the words to Marie-Antionette in Confessions or not, Nigeria is happy to supply a modern-day princess who has earned the title of Her Royal Spite-tress without controversy. And unlike Antionette reputed to have tossed the infamous pate, “Let them eat cake”, out her window when the mass of ordinary people in France were dying for bread crumbs, her Nigerian cousin travelled thousands of miles to find her groove. Ebele Obiano is the wife of Willie, governor of one of Nigeria’s five south eastern states, with a long list of grievances against the Federal Government. Let’s be…

Friday, 22 January 2021 05:47

Garba Shehu needs some education - Dare Babarinsa

It is interesting that the Presidency finally found its voice concerning the security situation in Ondo State. In recent months, Ondo State has been at the centre of grave insecurity in the South West. It was here that a first-class traditional ruler was kidnapped and killed. It was here that the daughter of Reuben Fasoranti, leader of Afenifere, was also killed in an attempt to kidnap her. It was here that Olu Falae, once the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and who almost won the presidential election in 1999, was also kidnapped. Unfortunately, many of these acts of…

Friday, 22 January 2021 05:46

DNA: 'I avenged his betrayal, assaults' - Michael West

New confessions trailed last week's edition of this column as reactions to the issue of DNA keep streaming in. Reports available reveal that dimensions to DNA problems are beyond infidelity. Some of the issues identified include breach of trust, retaliation, innocence via child swapping at maternity wards and naivety. Let me explain how naivety had messed up a woman before I share the confession of a woman who admitted to deliberate extramarital affairs as a game of tit-for-tat with her abusive spouse. In 1998, a woman had a one-night-stand with a visiting Nigerian man from the US. Hoping to earn…

Friday, 22 January 2021 05:45

Biden's call for unity isn't helped by Big Tech's deplatforming Trump and the right

Kelly Jane Torrance Joe Biden's inauguration Wednesday ushers in a new era of Democratic control of the federal government, with the party commanding the executive and both legislative branches. Biden rightly made unity a central part of his campaign platform, but unity is premised on mutual respect, open discourse and listening to other perspectives so that all citizens — including those on the right, like me — can trust that the broader society cares about them and that whoever leads the system represents everyone. Which is part of why the early signs about how the divided pieces of our society…

Thursday, 21 January 2021 05:34

Matters arising: The OAU land-grabbing brouhaha - Bola Bolawole

As would be expected, last week’s piece on the land-grabbing allegation levelled by the Obafemi Awolowo University authorities against some indigenes of their host community, Ile-Ife, has drawn the ire of those so alleged. My rhetoric question of “what is Ife without OAU” also did not go down well with many, despite the fact that they understand and admit that the question was rhetorical and that, as a writer, I possess the poetic licence to trade in hyperboles and exaggerations for effect. Such responses are the beauty of feedback! We will relay some of them today, including the response of…

Tuesday, 19 January 2021 05:32

A final assessment of the Trump presidency, and the path forward

David L. Bahnsen In hindsight, I wish I had published this article before the events of January 6 at the Capitol building. My goal in this piece has been important to me for a long time — an objective, thoughtful, and fair assessment of the Trump presidency, complete with some suggestions for the path forward in political life after Trump. The ambitions of this article are not changed by the riots, and in fact some conclusions are reinforced by them. However, the already high volume at which this particular conversation takes place in all circles is now even higher, and…

Monday, 18 January 2021 04:57

Pigeons that won’t fly, bloody baboon and Philemon punishment - Festus Adedayo

Fatalists haven’t yet returned from the market square. They had rushed there to parrot what they called the eerie signification of the news of pigeons that won’t fly at the National arcade on January 14. It was at the Nigerian fallen soldier heroes’ anniversary. According to them, there was a weird symbolism in President Muhammadu Buhari’s futile move to prod memorial pigeons to fly. Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, also encountered same futility in his quest to get the pigeons to fly. Over the years, this ceremonial action had traditionally got the pigeons flying into the sky. However, at the…

Monday, 18 January 2021 04:56

Is China eating the rest of the world's lunch? It's starting to look like it

Pamela Heaven How the pandemic is turning the Middle Kingdom into the world's economic superpower Is China eating other countries’ lunch?, asks an economist this week. Certainly starting to look like it. While other nations continue to struggle in the global pandemic, China’s success in curbing the virus and its investment-driven stimulus has made it the best performing economy in the world. And in some ways, the pandemic has actually escalated that rapid rise, argues TD senior economist Sohaib Shahid. Here’s what he found: Recovery Before last year China’s economy was slowing down, but the pandemic changed that, said Shahid.…

Sunday, 17 January 2021 05:30

Engaging grace for supernatural flight! - Taiwo Akinola

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy ~ Romans 9:16. Introduction: You belong to a well-defined place in life. You’re not a product of your circumstances, you were separated from your mother’s womb for God’s glory. However, it is when your destiny truly engages an escape velocity that it can soar freely to accomplish the purpose(s) for which you were born. And, it is then and only then that you can begin to fly supernaturally. In this regard, the God-factor in your race of life is of…

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Friday, 15 January 2021 04:55

Not a hair must fall from Kukah’s head! - Femi Fani-Kayode

It is most disconcerting when a handful of mischievous, reckless, dangerous and hopelessly misguided religious zealots and ethnic bigots that ought to know better like the Sokoto-based Muslim Solidarity Forum issue threats and give quit notices and ultimatums to leading members of the Christian community like Matthew Hassan Kukah, a Catholic Bishop. This is disappointing and unacceptable and, if not handled properly, has the potential of leading to a major religious conflagration and crisis. I say this because Kukah is deeply loved by millions from all over the country and the Christian community revers and adores him. The Muslim Solidarity…

Friday, 15 January 2021 04:54

DNA: Nemesis of infidelity, agony of innocence - Michael West

Unfolding dramas of paternity frauds seem to be endless. While we are still grappling with the Late Tunde and Moyo Thomas' issue, several others are surfacing. It is becoming so scary that a reader told me on Tuesday that "Though I have no reason to doubt or suspect my wife but the fearful revelations coming out these days from different angles tend to make every woman a suspect." Short videos reeling out shocking revelations and confessions in which adults in their 30s were being told point blank that they were actually fathered by men other than who they grew up…

Friday, 15 January 2021 04:52

How will Africa remember Donald Trump? Here is how - Azu Ishiekwene

US President Donald Trump may have lost re-election but he would be escorted out of the White House on Tuesday night with a special prize: Africa’s worst friend in modern times. Not that it matters to Trump one way or the other. We can only hope that after four years of spite, insults and hostilities, he might yet, in a fleeting moment of sanity, ask himself whether going out of his way to annoy or denigrate the continent was worth all the trouble. Trump had a love affair with many parts of Africa, especially among young aspirationals through his books…

Friday, 15 January 2021 04:50

The danger of deplatforming Trump - Raj Persaud

Efforts to remove Donald Trump’s online platform have been widely praised as crucial to mitigating the risk of further incitement of violence. But recent psychological research suggests that excluding Trump from social media will not make America safer – and could even increase the risk of violence. Social-media platforms are finally turning on Donald Trump. Since the US president incited a violent attack on the Capitol on January 6 that left five people dead, platforms ranging from Twitter (long his preferred megaphone) to Shopify (on which he sold merchandise) have banned him. And Parler – the unmoderated platform that has…

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