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Sunday, 27 December 2020 05:14

Joy to the world, the Saviour is born! - Taiwo Akinola

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord ~ Luke 2:10-11. Introduction: Christmas is not like any other event all through the annals of time. It is indeed the real worldwide kernel of joy and, over the ages, it has also repeatedly stirred joy in heaven over sinners that repent and embrace the unspeakable love of God bestowed upon mankind. The first time ever that…

Sunday, 27 December 2020 05:13

The inviolable law of Karma - Aare GGG

This discourse is on the law of karma and it comes with its twin brother REINCARNATION. This is because it is impracticable to discuss the law of karma without one of its attendant consequences. This is regarded as reincarnation. In view of the controversial nature of the subject of reincarnation, it is deemed appropriate to take them separately although they are intertwined. I am discussing karma ahead of reincarnation because without karma there wouldn't be anything as reincarnation. In effect, reincarnation takes its root and essentially depends on karma. To begin with, what is this karma that we want to…

Friday, 25 December 2020 09:37

Deconstructing Tunde Bakare - Sina Kawonise

For those who haven’t taken time to carefully study the zigzag of Pastor Tunde Bakare’s political grandstanding, they would be taken aback by his encomium on ex-governor Bola Tinubu who is pursuing the office president of Nigeria Bakare himself has been self-prophesying to occupy in 2023. The seeming inconsistency of Bakare is actually a long thread of consistency in self-promotion and positioning. I’ll explain. A few days ago, right from the pulpit of his Church, Bakare poured encomium on Tinubu, while viciously attacking those who raised issue with the dubious place-of-birth background of the former Lagos governor who has singlehandedly…

Friday, 25 December 2020 05:28

My opposition to an Atiku presidency - Bola Bolawole

On June 8, 2020 when Adamu, son of former Vice-President, Abubakar Atiku, hinted that his father could contest in 2023, my thinking was that he was either flying a kite, as it were, or testing the waters. Atiku has contested the presidency more times than any Nigerian, living or dead. He beats the current holder of the office - fumbling, wobbling, inept and clueless retired General Muhammadu Buhari – to the record. Atiku has contested the presidency five times, failing all the way. He eyed the SDP presidential ticket that the late MKO Abiola eventually grabbed; going on to win…

Friday, 25 December 2020 05:26

What happened to Akufo-Addo? - Azu Ishiekwene

If we could cast a vote in the December 8 presidential election in Ghana, President Nana Akufo-Addo, would have won re-election by miles. Nigerians love him to bits. He talks a good game. In the first two years or more of his presidency, I remember a number of videos shared with me on the Akufo-Addo promise. On a tour of the US, he met with the conference of US governors and awed with his presentation. On another occasion, he wowed French President Emmanuel Macron with his speech on “Ghana Beyond Aid”. That speech, which has chalked over three and a…

Friday, 25 December 2020 05:25

Covid at Christmas: Humanity as pawn - Michael West

Whoever is updated with information, politics, economy and contraption of Covid-19 will know that the foretold and orchestrated second wave of the virus will be prevalent at Christmas. I described it as 'orchestrated' because it is contained in the strategy document of Rockefeller Foundation which states that in the last two months of the year 2020, a resurgence of Covid-19 would be hyped using the media to spread fear and panic to generate grounds for another round of global lockdown. Consequently, the scheme will justify mandatory vaccination proposal which is the ultimate goal of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -…

Wednesday, 23 December 2020 05:14

Study notes on ‘state’ and ‘state failure’ - Edwin Madunagu

This piece is dedicated to two of the surviving members of the Old Guard of the Nigerian Left: Comrade Biodun Jeyifo (BJ) who turns 75 on January 5, 2021, and Comrade Bene Madunagu). As this extraordinary year 2020 comes to a close, the Nigerian Left appears to be faced with a mocking challenge partly orchestrated by radical and Leftwing social media: “revolution or state failure”. It is a challenge also appearing to leap directly from the packed events of the year: Coronavirus pandemic, youth protest or EndSars, deepening mass poverty and desperation, Boko Haram and kindred insurgencies, banditry, kidnapping and…

Tuesday, 22 December 2020 15:50

What FG needs not do about the new strain of Covid-19 coming from UK - Lanre Laoshe and Sina Kawonise

A few days ago, the United Kingdom announced a new variant of Coronavirus. This variant reportedly spreads at least 70 percent faster, though not necessarily deadlier. To curb the rapid spread of this new strain, tagged B.1.1.7, the UK government has tightened its lockdown of much the country. Outside of the UK, more than 40 countries around the world have banned flights and other transportation links from and to UK. Along this line, federal government of Nigeria, out of abundance of caution, is also considering banning flights from the UK. But does the Nigerian government need to do that? When…

Monday, 21 December 2020 05:38

Withholding Tax is not a type of Tax – Kayode Sunmola

WHT or Tax Withholding is an advance payment of Tax either to the Federal Inland Revenue Service or Internal Revenue Service of States of the Federation. This advance payment is meant to be deducted from the final tax payable by a Taxpayer. The legal basis for WHT is contained in the provisions of the Companies Income Tax Act 2004, Personal Income Tax Act, Petroleum Profit Tax Act and WHT Regulations. An individual or company (Contractee) making payment on a qualifying transaction to a vendor (Contractor) is required, at the date when payment is made or credited, whichever first occurs, to…

Monday, 21 December 2020 05:15

Interrogating Falana’s Ekiti State University convocation lecture (1) - Bola Bolawole

Femi Falana’s 20th Convocation Lecture to the Ekiti State University delivered on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 is not only topical but also profound. Titled “Restructuring and the liberation of Nigeria”, it speaks to the burning issues of the moment and cannot but command the attention of anyone bothered about this country’s dipping fortunes on all fronts and the unfortunate turn of events, especially on security of life and property, since retired General Muhammadu Buhari and the APC mounted the saddle of leadership in 2015. Rather than improve, the security situation gets worse by the day. Rather than recover, the economy…

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Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:17

A new and improved face of service and leadership? - Tunde Fagbenle

For the cynic out there let me quickly assure that this is NOT propaganda of any sort; for those who know me, I always "say it the way it is"! Got a call from England, my wife has been rushed by ambulance to an hospital. She's had a partial stroke or the like. Though forsworn against further overseas travel I had to dust my passport and figure how fast I could get out to be by her. Then, lo and behold, my Nigerian passport had expired 4 days ago on 14th December. The devil is a liar, as Pentecostal Christians…

Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:16

Six queries on the kidnap and release of the Kankara schoolboys - Farooq A. Kperogi

When it emerged on Thursday that the hundreds of schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, were released, I was so relieved that I gave the Buhari regime an unusual pat in the back in my social media updates. “The release of the #KankaraBoys—I don't care at what cost—is one of the few bright spots of the Buhari regime,” I wrote. “It shows at least that the regime has learned from GEJ's lethargy and callousness when the Chibok kidnap happened. Instead of rescuing the girls, Jonathan and his officials quibbled over whether the kidnap actually took place—and helped fertilize…

Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:15

Helpless Nigerians in the hands of Buhari - Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, it is difficult to ignore the helplessness and hopelessness which hapless Nigerians have suffered since the year of our Lord 2015, when our presumed Messiah descended upon our section of this planet. Before then, Nigerians had reasoned that there was only one saint standing and he is no other than Major General Muhammadu Buhari, our brutal disciplinarian and former Head of State. In our selective or collective amnesia, and out of an incredible frustration and pathological hatred for the ruling party, PDP, and the President fate had contrived to foist upon us, Goodluck Jonathan, it was generally assumed…

Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:13

Tinubu, run! Please, run! - Festus Adedayo

What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that "Well, that's what politics is, you make your way over corpses..."? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first instance? Optimists that Nigerian politicians are, they have started a race ahead of God to the year 2023; and they do not appear to mind stepping on the blood and the corpses of their brothers into that office they covet so badly. While at it, they are most times unmindful of how the people…

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