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Sunday, 17 November 2024 04:12

Maximizing grace for glorious breakthroughs - Taiwo Akinola

And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me ~ Ezekiel 2:2. Introduction: It cannot be overemphasized that every excelling goodness on earth is a product of the grace of God. Grace is favour minus the sweat and the duress of labour. Gracebrings promotion without certain known and essential credentials (Romans 9:16). No matter how impossible things appear to be, there will always be a performance for the man who has contacted God’s exceeding grace. Even in situations where “able” men have had it…

Sunday, 17 November 2024 04:10

Article of Faith: Idol worship (2) - Femi Aribisala

Sometimes we pray to fulfil all righteousness. And after we have prayed, we come back to our senses and have panic attacks. A lady’s son was going back to the United States from Nigeria. He had an American passport and a Nigerian passport simultaneously. He came in with his Nigerian passport, which meant that he did not get a Nigerian visa. But if he tries to leave with his Nigerian passport, they would require him to show a visa for his destination, the United States. That meant he would have to show his American passport. But dual nationality had been…

Saturday, 16 November 2024 04:58

At the end of the day, you’re just one person - Tola Adeniyi

Has it ever occurred to you that you are after all just one person? As the great humorist and philanthropist extra-ordinary MKO Abiola used to say: “No one is a ‘four-man” [foreman]. “It is sheer flattery to call a man ‘four man’” he used to quip. And really and truly, no one is ever more than one. People who hold offices and find themselves surrounded by retinue of servants and hangers- on get so carried away that they hardly ever have time to reflect on their positions in life. When a man gets down from his car and about a…

Friday, 15 November 2024 04:47

Is AI coming for the Journalist? - Azu Ishiekwene

One year ago, on November 15, 2023, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) invited me to speak on “Nigerian Media, Sustainability and Existential Threats by Big Tech.” Being asked again this year is a privilege, but I won’t be surprised if this is my last invitation. Perhaps I won’t need to come as a presenter next time. A learning machine, Anaba possibly, might be here to do the job. This may sound incredible, but increasingly, with improvements in infotech and biotech, it seems that what AI cannot do does not exist. In its most basic definition, generative artificial intelligence (AI)…

Thursday, 14 November 2024 04:42

Why do countries prosper? - Antara Haldar

Each fall, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – a process that Irving Wallace dramatized in his 1962 potboiler The Prize. This year, the call went to three figures who are already well-known, the economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the political scientist James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago. The three were recognized for their “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity,” and in an interesting twist, the award comes…

Tuesday, 12 November 2024 04:35

Children charged with treason: Tinubu’s damage control - Dele Sobowale

“A society can be judged by the way it treats its children” – Nelson Mandela, 1913-2013. Few Nigerians now harbour any hope that this country would produce a Mandela among its present crop of old politicians. And, if the young member of the House of Representatives, from Abia State, exhibiting delirium of power, as well as all the young Ministers, just sacked, represent the next generation of power seekers, then, we might have to wait until those in nursery school grow up. UNPRECEDENTED DETENTION AND PROSECUTION OF CHILDREN “The over-zealous man, doing his duty, will, sooner or later, pay his…

Monday, 11 November 2024 04:11

How two Josephs gave Nigeria a crisis of jumpy judges - Chidi Odinkalu

The unraveling of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon shortly after the end of Nigeria’s civil war in the decade of the 1970s began as a tale of two Josephs. One was Joseph Dechi Gomwalk, Gowon’s in-law and governor of his home state. The other was Joseph Sarwuan Tarka, one of Gowon’s trusted Ministers. It made for a riveting political spectacle whose legacies have proved durable. In 1974, General Gowon, who had led Nigeria through a 30-month-long civil war, was into his eighth year as military head of state. It was four years after the end of the civil war…

Sunday, 10 November 2024 04:27

Remi Tinubu, what has God got to do with it? - Festus Adedayo

The above was the question asked by Britons and the rest of the world in the afternoon of May 22, 2013. Close to the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, Southeast London, two young men of British-Nigerian descent, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, had attacked a 25-year old British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby and killed him. Rigby was of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. It was a case of religious extremism. The soldier had been on off-duty and was walking along Wellington Street. His attackers mowed him down with a car, ran towards him and, like Jack the Ripper, stabbed…

Sunday, 10 November 2024 04:26

Opening the prison doors - Taiwo Akinola

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death ~ Psalms 102:19-20. Introduction The realities which surround living in this world make the ministry of deliverance a very major feature of the messianic assignment and an essential element in the gospel program (Isaiah 61:1-3; Luke 4:18). That is a truth we all must allow to settle down pretty well in our belief systems. For the avoidance of any ambiguity, bondage depicts a state of slavery…

Sunday, 10 November 2024 04:24

Article of Faith: Idol worship - Femi Aribisala

I went to buy blank videotapes in a van with Christian VideoNet emblazoned on both sides. Immediately I came out of the van, an Indian man engaged me in friendly conversation. Soon he was talking to me about “Our Lord.” My immediate reaction was: “Which Lord is this man talking about? What makes him think that my Lord is his Lord?” My thinking was that, whatever Lord this friendly Indian man was talking about; it cannot be my Lord Jesus Christ. My new Indian friend kept on chatting and he was smiling curiously at me. And then it hit me.…

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Saturday, 09 November 2024 04:33

Fuel fiasco as metaphor for governance - Dele Sobowale

“If they go about solving the problem this way, how many more problems will they have created by the time they are through” -James Baldwin, 1924-1987, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p201, available online. By any objective measure known to adults globally, what we have on our hands with regard to fuel problem is a fiasco. You cannot ask any of those in control of our fate in this regard a straight question and receive a reliable answer. Two Presidents, the Minister of Petroleum, the Minister of State for Petroleum, the Minister of Finance, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN,…

Friday, 08 November 2024 04:25

Unusual reasons Africa wanted Trump to win - Azu Ishiekwene

I understand wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would loosen regulations and protect them and their businesses from excessive taxation. Conservative evangelicals believe he is the bulwark against wokeism, especially the ultra-liberal variety. And white folks want their country back. But Africans at home and in the Diaspora – what is their business supporting a guy who described their continent as a “shithole” and has worn his anti-immigrant rhetoric on his sleeves? It didn’t seem to make sense that anyone who saw Trump 1.0 would ever dream or wish…

Thursday, 07 November 2024 04:24

Do you know who I am? - Niyi Osundare

The Honorebu* Who Slapped the Law The Honorebu’s first question Was preceded with a very Honorebu slap So loud his neighbours thought It was a thunderclap “Who are you, wretched driver; What madness drove you To disturb my Honorebu leisure In the middle of an empty day? In my Honorably acquired mansion Where, between booze and boast, I churn out the bills which beget those laws That have turned Nigeria into a Paradise” The second slap came with an imperial swagger: “How dare you! Do you know who I am?” Then a frightening combination of raw power and magic blustering:…

Wednesday, 06 November 2024 04:56

Tinubu: Are we destined for more shege? - Ugoji Egbujo

The Afenifere can’t condone inequity. Tinubu’s tribalism has been alarming. They are embarrassed. It’s uncultured. The Yoruba are relatively too advanced for such a retrogressive political palliative scheme. They need neither to be pushed like a battery-handicapped kabukabu nor to be fed mashed food like a toothless adult. On no scale are they backward, comparatively. They are the proud champions of equity, industry and merit. Tinubu’s untiring devotion to sectionalism serves neither the values of the Yoruba nor the interests of the country. On the other hand, Afenifere’s response could be summed up as a disdainful smirk. Perhaps, Tinubu’s tribalism…

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