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Monday, 24 August 2020 05:20

Of Karma, CAMA, the Church, and mushrooming churches (1) - Bola Bolawole

Karma or the Law of Karma is an expression usually used – though not exactly appropriately – to mean comeuppance or reward for an evil that someone has done. According to Wikipedia, Karma means “the result of a person’s actions as well as the actions’ themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect. According to the ‘theory of Karma’, what happens to a person happens because they caused it with their actions.” “The ‘theory of Karma’ can be thought to be an extension to Newton’s third law of action and reaction where every action of any…

Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:43

Oyedepo, CAN and the Islamisation agenda of CAMA 2020 - Festus Adedayo

As August 27 anniversary of the 35 years that wily military General, Ibrahim Babangida, gunned himself into office draws near, his baptism with a national uproar on account of his attempt to drag Nigeria into the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will remain indelible in national mind. As soon as the information got into national limelight, Babangida received one of his vilest criticisms ever from the Nigerian Christian religious class comprising Bishops, Pentecostals and their ecumenical brethren. One of such criticisms against him was that the OIC was an agenda by the North to Islamize Nigeria. This stuck out like…

Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:41

The mystery of God’s promises - Taiwo Akinola

Blessed be the LORD . . . there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant ~ 1Kings 8:56. Introduction Prophetic promises abound in the Word of God, and they cover all aspects of human life (2 Peter 1:3). Yet, there is need to consciously unravel and activate them in our individual lives so as to fully enjoy them in our day-to-day living. There is no watertight guarantee for any human promises, even when they come from people of sound integrity. Human ability is limited, hence some human…

Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:40

The five perversions of the mind (lust) - Kola Oyefeso

The promise last week was that we will commence discussions on the five perversions of the mind this week. And as I had hinted, the five deadly perversions of the Mind are LUST, GREED, ANGER, ATTACHMENT AND EGO. I will try to make it devoid of any ambiguity that all these passions or attributes are not by themselves bad, if we understand and limit ourselves within their necessities. They become bad or perverse, only when we extend their imperatives beyond what the Creator intended them for. Without the basic understanding of the mind or life itself, all sermons and homilies…

Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:29

Mali’s coup: Why the Sahel is suffering

A coup d’etat is almost never good news. In Mali the descent into violence accelerated dramatically in March 2012, when soldiers mutinied and launched attacks on the presidential palace, the state broadcaster and a military barracks in Bamako, the capital. The then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, was forced into exile. Within months, jihadists had taken over much of northern Mali. By the start of 2013 France felt obliged to intervene, sending soldiers and its air force to push the militants out of their strongholds in the cities of Timbuktu and Gao. That seemed to have saved Mali from a terrible…

Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:28

Kashamu’s last hour make-up with Adebutu - Kola Oyefeso

I write as a free mind and someone who is an insider to the telephone conversation between Late Buruji Kashamu and Kesington Adebutu First and foremost as a Mystic, I must remind us of the inevitably of death. It is designed by the Creator Himself as a relief for the soul when our body has become enervated by disease, old age, accident or other mishaps that have made the soul inconduicive to inhabit the physical body any longer. This happens when our allotted time is over in this world. The individual time varies and it is determined by the Creator…

Friday, 21 August 2020 05:28

Bayelsa governor’s one leg - Azu Ishiekwene

Nine months after the curtains were drawn on the Bayelsa governorship polls, the electorate still can’t be too sure who they voted for or who will be governor. Lawyers have become the new voters and courts the new electoral umpires; yet neither the lawyers nor the courts can say exactly where all this would lead or swear that they are in control of the outcome. It appears that politicians who never accept defeat have found other means to have elections without end, until they win and vanquish the loser. Bayelsa has never been a “progressive” state since the return to…

Thursday, 20 August 2020 04:59

Funtua: Honour not deserved (4) - Bola Bolawole

Last June when Mr. Sam Amuka Pemu aka Uncle Sam (pen name, Sad Sam) celebrated his 85th birthday, Mr. Ray Ekpu wrote a tribute titled “Sam Amuka: Journalism’s Generalissimo” (sunnewsonline.com; 23rd June 2020). Uncle Sam has had an illustrious career as a journalist before teaming up with the late Olu Aboderin to start PUNCH newspapers. When both friends parted ways, Uncle Sam started the Vanguard newspapers. He has been a towering figure in the journalism world ever since. So, a salutation to him on his birthday was appropriate and the title of Ekpu’s tribute, apt. In The Guardian newspaper of…

Wednesday, 19 August 2020 04:59

Dr. Jekyll and Mallam Hyde: How a governor’s internal conflict might be destroying his state - Ose Anenih

“…Leaders in general possessed huge components of both good and evil. Some had a little bit more evil than others. I always had difficulty understanding how Obasanjo could sit with us and preach about sacrifice and transparency one moment and then the next, sit with the GMD of NNPC about how to get some payments to the PDP. Studying Bismarck, De Gaulle…helped me make sense of this duality in leaders. It appears that this is a skill that must be possessed to be able to ascend to a certain leadership level. I am hoping that this skill can be acquired,…

Tuesday, 18 August 2020 05:14

2019 and harvest of deaths - Tola Adeniyi

Readers may instinctively conclude that the piece before them is about the horrific catalogue of the daily butchery that had become the lot of Nigerians since the past 5 years which climaxed in the ugly Year 2019, and which unfortunately has resumed a more horrendous proportion since the puppeteers of the programmed pogrom are emboldened with demonic impunity.No. This article is about the personal losses that came my way in the past year and which up until now I have not gathered sufficient strength to write about. They came in shocking torrents; and before I could recover from one shock…

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Monday, 17 August 2020 05:20

Kashamu: The verdict of history - Bola Bolawole

In life, he was controversial; in death, no less. Who else but Buruji Kasham, who boarded the Covid-19 plane penultimate Saturday? The first salvo was fired by no less a personality than former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Noted for his knack for letter-writing, Obasanjo fired a sarcastic “condolence” letter that did anything but condole, to Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, in which he mocked his one-time political Nemesis. Obasanjo said, inter alia: “... The life and history of the departed have lessons for those of us on this side of the veil. Esho Jinadu (Buruji Kashamu) in his lifetime used the…

Sunday, 16 August 2020 04:44

Tai Solarin, Mailafia, Lai Mohammed at a reverie with George Orwell - Festus Adedayo

Any student of autocratic rule will tell you that free speech is always the first casualty of a budding despotism. So, watching the viral video of how development economist, polymath and former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Deputy Governor, Obadiah Mailafia, spurted out his seismic allegations against runners of the Nigerian state last week, my hunch squealed to me that he would be Tai Solarin in a matter of days. Solarin was a social critic and educationalist. As at 1989, the Ibrahim Babangida government had literally become a sturdy despotism, encompassed on all fronts by rife allegations of corruption. Military…

Sunday, 16 August 2020 04:42

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…

Sunday, 16 August 2020 04:39

The mystery of the mind (1) - Kola Oyefeso

From this week i will be discussing the MIND and hasten to say, we will find its study very revealing because mind is very central to our psychological problems. We will be analyzing the mind itself to discover its several components and functions. If modern psychology were that equipped to tell us exactly what the mind is, beyond the externalities, the world would have been a better place. All wars among nations, bickering, slander, restiveness, indeed all negative tendencies of man would have died of attrition. But such Sangri-La wasn't in the design of the Creator. That ideal utopian world…

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