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Friday, 25 September 2020 04:59

Edo: What happened? - Azu Ishiekwene

It was not supposed to end this way. Like the promo of a mismatch between David and Goliath, many believed, with reasons, that Governor Godwin Obaseki would be beaten to a pulp. To make matters worse, Obaseki was not just up against one Goliath. He was taking on Goliath Plus, an array of modern and ancient forces comprising the ecclesiastical armies of Osagie Ize-Iyamu and the revolutionary guard led by Adams Oshiomhole.Obaseki’s dilemma was highlighted in a pre-election interview which Oshiomhole granted Channels TV. When the comrade was asked his response to Obaseki’s threat to end his reign as the…

Friday, 25 September 2020 04:57

Separation: A question that threatens reconciliation - Michael West

Life is full of challenges. Howbeit, it takes challenging circumstances to drive people to attain their goals. Many are lackadaisical or complacent in the face of daunting situations that must be surmounted to lay hold on their goals. Marital crisis is a serious emotional trauma that must not be handled with levity. It often leads to loss of peace of mind, loss of concentration, it breeds nervousness, insomnia, anger, high blood pressure, loss of appetite, weariness, mental disorder, self-abuse, irrational behaviours and, in extreme cases, suicide, among other side effects that marital frustration can inject into people's lives. Notwithstanding the…

Friday, 25 September 2020 04:56

Celebrating 75 years of the United Nations - Jose Antonio Ocampo

The UN embodies the best of humanity – the belief that all people deserve basic dignity, and that working together is the only way to deliver it. Seventy-five years after its birth, the world – beginning with the United States – must revive that belief, and recommit to the multilateralism that it demands. As the United Nations marks its 75th anniversary, the world is in turmoil. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in nearly one million deaths so far and is nowhere close to being contained. The world economy is experiencing its worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.…

Thursday, 24 September 2020 05:37

Edo election: Shape of things to come? - Bola Bolawole

True is the saying that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan! While those on the sunny and shiny side of success are wont to beat their chest and amplify, even exaggerate, their contributions, those responsible for failure, as it were, are wont to shift blames and pass the buck. That has been playing out since last Saturday’s Edo state governorship election. Incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki of the PDP won while Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the APC lost, both of them twice in a row. A post-mortem of the election started even before it was concluded. Seeing the…

Wednesday, 23 September 2020 05:13

The end of Western opportunism - Joschka Fischer

For the past 50 years, the West has clung to the hope that modernization would automatically transform China into a capitalist liberal democracy. For decades, maintaining this illusion was good for the bottom line, but now the implications of China's ascendancy have become disturbingly clear. The confrontation between China and the West is escalating almost daily. The conflict is about technology, trade, global market share, and supply chains, but also about fundamental values. Underpinning this economic and ideological competition is the goal of global predominance in the twenty-first century. But why is the current escalation happening now? It is not…

Tuesday, 22 September 2020 04:50

The great services illusion - Celestin Monga

In the wake of Covid-19, some economists are calling for developing countries to shift from industrialization to services, or even to bypass the manufacturing stage of development altogether. But blind faith in services-led growth is a dangerous illusion, and the arguments supporting it are deeply flawed. As the world prepares for the post-pandemic era, the quest for sustainable economic growth is becoming ever more intense – especially for developing countries. It is tempting to call for these countries – the main engine of global growth in recent decades – to shift their development strategies from industrialization to services. As new…

Monday, 21 September 2020 05:29

The new energy order: Power in the 21st century - Leader, The Economist

Oil fuelled the 20th century—its cars, its wars, its economy and its geopolitics. Now the world is in the midst of an energy shock that is speeding up the shift to a new order. As covid-19 struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Since then there has been a jittery recovery, but a return to the old world is unlikely. Fossil-fuel producers are being forced to confront their vulnerabilities. ExxonMobil has been ejected from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, having been a member since 1928. Petrostates such as…

Monday, 21 September 2020 05:15

For Muslims and Christians: The scales are falling off our eyes! - Bola Bolawole

“Die Religion...ist das Opium des Volkes” – Karl Marx Interpreted, the above celebrated dictum of Karl Marx means “Religion is the opiate of the masses“ or “Religion is the opium of the people”. Drug abuse or drug addiction keeps its addicts stranded in a world of illusion, cast far away from reality; wasting its adherents incrementally and in instalments. Colonial Britain compelled its colonies in Asia to cultivate opiates; while sales from the drug helped to finance the colonial administration, its consumption helped to dull the edges of the colonised mental abilities so they could perpetually be kept in servitude.…

Monday, 21 September 2020 05:13

The coming global technology fracture - Dani Rodrik

Today's international trade regime was not designed for a world of data, software, and artificial intelligence. Already under severe pressure from China’s rise and the backlash against hyper-globalization, it is utterly inadequate to face the three main challenges these new technologies pose. The international trade regime we now have, expressed in the rules of the World Trade Organization and other agreements, is not of this world. It was designed for a world of cars, steel, and textiles, not one of data, software, and artificial intelligence. Already under severe pressure from China’s rise and the backlash against hyper-globalization, it is utterly…

Sunday, 20 September 2020 05:42

America’s Visa ban as Nigeria’s madman in custody of mother’s corpse - Festus Adedayo

When the Yoruba want to justify intervention in a hopeless case, they invoke the anecdote of the madman in possession of his mother’s corpse. Their argument is if, for the sake of protection of the sanctity of order of things, we allow a madman to take custody of his mother’s corpse, in the moment of his maddening chasm, the madman could mistake the remains for a venison and roast his mother as suya. This Yoruba anecdote is euphemism for the theory of paternalism which George Orwell, in his 1984 novel espoused through the Big Brother who watches over everybody. It…

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Sunday, 20 September 2020 05:41

Anglican Church’s new Primate and a decade-long agenda for evangelical revival - Folu Olamiti

The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion is set for a new phase of ten years of evangelical revival targeted not only at building the capacity of members of the church to live a life that pleases God and qualifies them for eternal life but also to raise them as intentional disciples of Jesus Christ that would transform the society in which they live through their exemplary lifestyle. They are also to preach the undiluted word of God that would turn people away from all social vices and other ungodly acts that are not in consonance with the will of God.…

Sunday, 20 September 2020 05:40

Understanding the reach of God’s faithfulness - Taiwo Akinola

"God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord" (1 Corinthians 1:9). Introduction: One of the strongest truths in the entire Bible is that God is inherently faithful. He is trustworthy. He honours His words, fulfills His promises, and He won’t let down anyone that trusts in Him. Our God is too faithful to fail! God’s faithfulness is in direct contrast to the other heathen faiths. Other gods are, generally, immoral, selfish, cruel and careless with their promises regardless of their pledged word. Contrariwise, the God of the Bible is always…

Sunday, 20 September 2020 05:38

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

We are wrapping up discussion this week on the five perversions of the mind, with the most vicious,vilest and unquestionably the worst of them all. This is known as EGO. Its other siblings which we had taken up in previous series are LUST,ANGER GREED, AND ATTACHMENT. This week, we will try to explore why ego is adjudged as the king of all vices. Ego could be deemed to have two meanings or functions. Primarily, it was given to the mind as a faculty that gives man the power of awareness of the self. In other words, self differentiation, the I-ness.…

Saturday, 19 September 2020 05:34

Buhari is proposing another anti-corruption agency. This is what should be done instead - Olarinre Salako

If I were President Muhammadu Buhari, I would rather merge Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) into one Anti-Corruption Body to be named – Nigerian Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), and make the consolidated body stronger and more independent, with offices in the 36 state capital cities. The consolidated body - NACC would ONLY be subject to the rules of law and court judgment just like everyone and every organization but would be largely independent. Indeed, if possible, the commission's budget should be funded on first-line-charge. Anti-Corruption Fight in Nigeria should be treated as a matter…

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