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Tuesday, 28 July 2020 05:45

Economics and the culture war - Robert Skidelsky

Some economists may prefer to concentrate on the current economic situation while standing apart from cultural questions, or to say that the current kerfuffle over "cancel culture" will recede when the economy improves. But this is to abdicate responsibility, and to choose the easy road under cover of their discipline's neutrality. I have long criticized economics for its lack of realism, and for producing “models” of human behavior that are at best caricatures, and at worst parodies of the real thing. In my recent book What’s Wrong with Economics?, I argue that, in their attempt to establish universal laws, economists…

Monday, 27 July 2020 05:29

Panic-stealing among Nigeria’s postcolonial elites: The rise of modern savagery - Tatalo Alamu

Thirty five years after the late Dele Giwa lamented that Nigerians have been shocked into a state of “unshockability”, we must now wonder whether the limits we thought were the limits then were really the limits. Nobody ever imagined that what we are witnessing was possible in the history of modern Nigeria. The shock absorbers have finally come off the vehicle. It is surely going to be a noisy and bumpy ride to wherever. But as scary as this may appear, it should be the least of our problems. Neither is the fact that even the authorities appear to be…

Monday, 27 July 2020 05:17

No dead body in Heaven - Tola Adeniyi

At age 14 when I wrote the poem Soul Fire, it was the beginning of the Revelation which in a period of 50 years matured into Mareism Faith. The last stanza of the poem is: “I will not die Nobody does Who believes in Soul Fire” At that point in time my inner Mind told me that the Soul/Spirit of Man merely resides in the body, or put in another way, the body is merely the garment, the shell, the building, the box or whatever enclosure or encasement that accommodates the Soul/Spirit. It is the Breath of Life which feeds…

Sunday, 26 July 2020 05:09

Okon fulminates as Mama Igosun fumigates

To Freedom House in Ilasamaja where Okon is billed to take part in an interactive session on the lessons of Covid-19 organised by a group calling itself Coalition Against Covid-19 Criminals (COACOC). As the dreaded pandemic gradually naturalises and insinuates itself into human consciousness as a new way of life, many rogue groups are springing up claiming to have an answer to the scourge. The day began on a rather trying note with the usual early morning altercation between Mama Igosun and a feckless Okon. A sweet aromatic smell wafted through the air as Okon insisted that Mama Igosun was…

Sunday, 26 July 2020 05:07

Can Buhari separate two chickens in a fight? - Festus Adedayo

Hassan Ayariga, founder of the All People’s Congress (APC) of Ghana, in a recent viral video, publicly reminded Nigerians that their country had become a butt of jokes in international discourses. Right before our very eyes, Ayariga rudely poked his hands into our eyeballs. Nigerians are however taking the insult in their strides because they know Ayariga had their balls in his palms. “(President) Nana (Akufo-Ado) is 72 years old and weak already, sleeping every moment he gets; (he) cannot be the president and if he wins, he is not the one who can manage (the country)… Nana has a…

Sunday, 26 July 2020 05:05

The legacies of Nicholas Okoh in The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion - Folu Olamiti

In our world today, the biggest challenge to the church of God is how to maintain sanity in mankind in the midst of trending unusual behavioral patterns fast gaining social acceptance especially among the younger generation. It is no more odd to see people shamelessly identify themselves publicly as lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals and transexuals as the political authorities in many countries have legitimized these deviant and anti-social behaviours under the guise of freedom, not minding the immoral implications and the resultant surge in dangerous crimes. Ironically, these abominable social trends have crept into many churches globally even as some members…

Sunday, 26 July 2020 05:04

Fighting to the finish - Taiwo Akinola

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness…and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” - 2 Timothy 4:7-8. Introduction The Apostle Paul, a man widely (and rightly) regarded as a Christian leader for all time, was a true exemplar of the Christian way of life. As we learn from his writings and accounts of others, in all that he did, he was truly an ambassador of the Gospel to the Gentiles, a father to…

Sunday, 26 July 2020 05:03

Meditation: The true living (2) - Kola Oyefeso

From this week we will be dwelling on the nitty gritty of meditation and to start off, that invaluable saying of Christ in Luke 10 vs 2 comes handy. It reads: “THE HARVEST IS PLENTIFUL BUT THE LABOURERS ARE FEW.” In another breath He says; MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.” I have explained beforehand my inclination to quote the Bible and I need not repeat the sine-qua-non with the little space I am devoting to this weekly column given the time handicap of the readers. If the readers are ready, I can make this series a daily affair.…

Thursday, 23 July 2020 05:39

Not corruption but banditry - Bola Bolawole

I considered three other titles before settling for the one above: Banditry and not corruption; brood of vipers; and a nest of bandits. A nest of killers was how the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, described the then ruling party, PDP, after the assassination of sitting Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, a crime which remains unresolved and unpunished to this day. Can we say in good and clear conscience that no one in the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration – or in the succeeding administrations - knew who or what killed Bola Ige? Brood of vipers was how Jesus Christ…

Wednesday, 22 July 2020 05:16

Reorganising Nigeria’s Left politics - Edwin Madunagu

There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists and fragments of radical democrats), on the one hand, and the actual history of Nigeria’s Left politics on the other. That contradiction can be stated like this: Nigerian Leftists have always hoped to found a substantial and respectable pan-Nigerian organization that is capable of permanently and continuously coordinating their revolutionary strategies and popular-democratic struggles regardless of the electoral agenda, time-tables and timelines presented to the nation by Nigeria’s ruling class and its governments. But what we have had in practice is that…

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Monday, 20 July 2020 05:45

Ibrahim Chatta: The resurrection of Stanislavski (a review) - Tola Adeniyi

Not since the display of energy and passion by Duro Ladipo as Sango at Koso, Kola Ogunmola as Lanke Omu in Palmwine Drinkard, Sonni Otti as Danda in Danda, Jimi Solanke as Overamwhen Nogbaisi in Overamwhen Nogbaisi or Columbus Irosanga [not in his role as powerful chief priest Igbudu in the 2003 Nollywood blockbuster movie Issakkaaba but the young Irosanga who almost set both the stage and audience ablaze with his act in Port Harcourt in 1975] have I been literally thrown off my seat by Ibrahim Chatta last week. Covid-19 had locked me down and locked me up with…

Sunday, 19 July 2020 05:30

Honouring the glorious invitation, COME! - Taiwo Akinola

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ~ Matthew 11:28. Introduction: Supernatural rest is still abundantly available to everyone, saints and sinners alike, no matter what we may have experienced in terms of trials, toils and perplexities. But, only through Christ Jesus. Rest is good, and more so that it’s a gift from God (Genesis 49:15; 2 Samuel 7:1). David testified to this in Psalms 23:2-3: “He makes me lie down in green pastures .... beside the still waters”. Solomon also experienced it and he enjoyed great wisdom, wealth and…

Sunday, 19 July 2020 05:29

Meditation: The true living - Kola Oyefeso

Since the onset of the pandemic, I have engaged the readers in a couple of subjects, aimed at making life meaningful on the earthly field and I started with Science and Philosophy. Going forward on that, I took on Religion and Mysticism and tried to explain their primary aim, which is to unite us with our Creator. All along, I made my objective very unambiguous that I was not out to knock or promote any religion or sects over the other. My purpose is to challenge anyone to shake me off my illusions and parri-pasu goad the readers to on…

Friday, 17 July 2020 05:31

Covid-19 and schools: Let them learn - Leader, The Economist

All around the world, children’s minds are going to waste. As covid-19 surged in early April, more than 90% of pupils were shut out of school. Since then the number has fallen by one-third, as many classrooms in Europe and East Asia have reopened. But elsewhere progress is slow. Some American school districts, including Los Angeles and San Diego, plan to offer only remote learning when their new school year begins. Kenya’s government has scrapped the whole year, leaving its children idle until January. In the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says he may not let any children return to the…

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