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Sunday, 29 November 2020 05:42

Philip Shekwo, Sultan of Sokoto and Nigeria’s sad reality - Festus Adedayo

By now, virtually all Nigerians must have arrived at same juncture of opinion, something in the neighbourhood of what lawyers call unanimity of purpose, on how we fare at this critical time. Overtime, our opinions had been variegated, like the different seeds in a walnut pod. Politics, tribe, religion and dictates of our tummies had specified where we stood. Now however, we have realized that we are under siege and if we don’t speak up, we stand the risk of being consumed by the tide of the time, all of us. “One and all, we have got to face reality…

Sunday, 29 November 2020 05:41

Possessing the gates of the enemies (2) - Taiwo Akinola

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure ..... think on these things ~ Philippians 4:8. Introduction: It is quintessential to biblical Christianity that we all become exact in the spiritual art of warring and possessing the gates of our enemies. And, as pointed out in the immediate past edition of this column, the believer must govern his mind in a military way against the brute forces of negative thoughts, negative imaginations and fear. By all means, we must keep Satan out of the lobes of our minds. The reason…

Friday, 27 November 2020 05:47

The meeting and aborted demonstration - Aba Saheed

I cannot now recall who invited me to the meeting, but I do remember that the convener mentioned that those of us in our late 70s and above should gather to discuss the modus operandi of our joining a massive protest demonstration planned by the youths taking place at the end of November. ‘’It is going to be mother and father of all protests and Septuagenarians, Octogenarians as well as nonagenarians must join in in a solid show of solidarity with our disenchanted youths.” It was scheduled to be a combination of physical and virtual meeting and the venue was…

Friday, 27 November 2020 05:46

In search of Lai Mohammed - Azu Ishiekwene

I have known the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for a long time, I think. Before I got close, I was first drawn to him when he was chief of staff to former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, even though I had known him earlier at the Nigerian Airports Authority. But my interest grew from knowing to fascination and from fascination to respect when Mohammed became National Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria, a legacy party of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In that position, which he held for many years and after which there has…

Friday, 27 November 2020 05:44

Marriage, not wedding is priority - Michael West

Marriage is a serious business. It is not meant for the immature, irresponsible or ill-prepared. It is not a deal for playboys and "runs girls." It indicates responsibility and commitment on the couple. It changes their statuses from ‘single’ to ‘married.’ It enhances personal values, enriches experience and confers credibility on the married in the eyes of the society. Being responsible is part of the reasons only the married is qualified to stand as surety or guarantors in serious matters in the law courts. The sum value of marriage is in the sense of responsibility, discipline and value addition to…

Thursday, 26 November 2020 04:41

Again, time to remember - Edwin Madunagu

This is a combined personal tribute to two personages: Flt-Lt Jerry Rawlings and Comrade Bassey Ekpo Bassey. I have isolated them from a longer list of personages that came to my mind to publicly remember – at this time. The other personages, all comrades, who will also be publicly remembered in no distant future, include Curtis Joseph, Arthur Nwankwo, Olu Adebayo, Bjorn Beckman, Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, Ingrid Essien-Obot, Yima Sen and Balarabe Musa. I have here isolated Jerry Rawlings and Bassey Ekpo Bassey because of my particularly intense ideological and political relationship with each of them at certain periods in my…

Thursday, 26 November 2020 04:40

Nigerian judiciary: Turning a new leaf? - Bola Bolawole

When a professional colleague suggested that I beam my searchlight on the Nigerian judiciary to witness some of the reforms he said were taking place there, my retort was like biblical Nathaniel’s. John 1: 45: “Philip found Nathaniel, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathaniel said unto him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.” Can any good thing come out of the Nigerian judiciary; especially one presided over by Tanko…

Thursday, 26 November 2020 04:39

British lawmakers debate Nigeria’s shame - Abimbola Adelakun

On Monday, British lawmakers debated sanctioning Nigerian government officials involved in the attack on peaceful protesters at Lekki on October 20. The petition against the Nigerian government more than doubled the threshold of 100,000 signatures necessary for the lawmakers to attend to it, and they did speak to the issues. In their presentations, they explored how to punish those that played a direct role in committing the atrocities without hurting longsuffering Nigerians in the process. Several of them invoked the Magnitsky Act. None contested the possibility of applying it, which could mean Nigerian officials are about to be red-carded. In…

Monday, 23 November 2020 04:56

The fascist liberal/left and those that hate Donald Trump (3) - Femi Fani-Kayode

Again if you tell Biden supporters that claim to be Christians that hundreds of great and reputable men of God and tried and tested Prophets from all over the world like Emmanuel Kobe, Emmanuel Jatau, Kenneth Copeland, Sid Roth, Pat Robertson. Sadhu Selvaraj, Denise Goulet, Mark Goulet, Mark Taylor, Chris Oyakhilome, Franklin Graham, Michelle Bachmann, Kat Kerr, Stella Immauel, Lance Wallnau, Mark Burns, Paula White, Curt Landry, Kevin Zadai, Gregg Lock, Patrick Wooden, Joseph Okechukwu, Isaac Idahosa, Claudia Tcharpornu, Emmanuel Magba, David Azzaman, Abraham Azaza and the late Kim Klement all said that Trump would serve a second term and…

Monday, 23 November 2020 04:55

To Kayode Fayemi: A response - Bola Bolawole

Below are excerpts by the Egbe Omo Oduduwa to Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Arewa lecture; enjoy it! “As is customary of the Nigerian Post-Colonial ruling elite, Fayemi simply grafted onto the Nigerian Problematic borrowed expressions of a (United States of America) reality that is incongruent with the experiences of the Yoruba and other Peoples of Nigeria by his deployment of the historically conditioned phrase of “a more perfect Union” in his presentation at the Forum on the 50th Anniversary of the Centre for Historical Documentation and Research (Arewa House) on October 30, 2020. “For “a more perfect Union” to be applicable…

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Sunday, 22 November 2020 05:32

The fascist liberal/left and those that hate Donald Trump (2) - Femi Fani-Kayode

The fact of the matter is that members of the fascist liberal left have no tolerance for different views and they have mainly been brainwashed and misled by the local and international media and those that control them. If you make one pro-Trump comment on Nigerian social or traditional media you will be met with one hundred well-orchestrated and choreographed insults from the gullible and garrulous fools who know next to nothing and who claim to be Biden supporters even though most of them have never even left the shores of Nigeria and spend most of their time hoping and…

Sunday, 22 November 2020 05:31

Three lives and the quest for change - Dare Babarinsa

Dayo Alao was a good man. He was a man of disarming simplicity and integrity who valued Christian ethics of love and charity. His presence commanded respect. He was a man of vast knowledge and great humility who focused his energy in changing our land. He was one of those few men and women who had moved from the intoxication of the newsroom to the soberer pursuit of academics. In his last assignment as Vice-Chancellor of the Adeleke University, Ede, he devoted his time and energy to creating an iconic institution whose physical beauty is one of the best among…

Sunday, 22 November 2020 05:29

CNN Report and the bloody road to Rwanda - Festus Adedayo

Gradually, like a chameleon, President Muhammadu Buhari is morphing into the colour of Rwandan President, Paul Kagame. No, not the widely known colour of the developmental strides associated with Kagame. The brutal dictatorship veneer that lies behind the façade of Kagame’s democratic garment, I mean. Since 2000 when he took over power as President, Kagame, a Tutsi from Southern Rwanda, has held a Janus face to a world peeping into the dangerously hilly but beautiful country of Rwanda. Kagame started as commander of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, a Uganda-based rebel force that was core of the blood spillage in the…

Sunday, 22 November 2020 05:28

Possessing the gates of the enemies (1) - Taiwo Akinola

And I say also unto thee .... I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ~ Matthew 16:18. Introduction Many are the enemies of God’s covenant children, but equally, at work for them are very many potent declarations of God’s favour, conferring unspeakable advantage, to ensure the defeat of their enemies is sacrosanct (Genesis 22:17). It is my well considered position that the spiritual arts of binding, loosing and decreeing become a ‘fait accompli’ only for those who have mastered the discipline of dealing with the elders at the gates of hell decisively.…

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