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Friday, 24 January 2020 05:37

Amotekun and why Oranmiyan should stay in its grove - Dare Babarinsa

It is not too surprising that the Amotekun security initiatives of the South-West is creating a flurry in many quarters. Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami sees it as a challenge to the exclusive powers of the Federal Government as far as security is concerned. The irony is lost on Malami, a lawyer of great education but limited understanding, that it is the consistent failure of his masters that made the case for Amotekun and similar outfits in the federation so compelling. Governors of the Yoruba heartland have not shied away from defending their position. Governor Kayode Fayemi of…

Thursday, 23 January 2020 05:25

How Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and the ‘civil war’ in Democratic Party will help Trump’s easy win - Piers Morgan

‘Nobody likes him,’ rages in a new documentary film. ‘Nobody wants to work with him. He gets nothing done.’ She expanded on her vicious personal attack in an interview with: ‘It’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters….and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.’ She concluded: ‘I think people need to pay attention because we want, hopefully, to elect a president who’s going to try to bring us together and not either turn a blind eye, or actually reward the kind of insulting, attacking, degrading behavior…

Thursday, 23 January 2020 05:24

What is the truth of Boko Haram? - Abimbola Adelakun

The news of the murder of chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, is unfortunate. Andimi had been abducted earlier in the month when Boko Haram insurgents attacked his village. Days later, he appeared in a video clip where he appealed to his state governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, to rescue him. It is painful that he was killed eventually. Multiple Christian organisations, both locally and internationally, are reporting the incident of Andimi’s death as part of the growing evidence of Christian persecution in Nigeria and also construing his death as a martyrdom.…

Wednesday, 22 January 2020 06:17

The end of the free-market paradigm - Diane Coyle

The assumption of isolated individuals transacting in free markets has underpinned highly damaging economic policies since the 1980s. Given the interdependent nature of the digital world, economic researchers need to ditch their unscientific attachment to this paradigm and instead focus on the economy of the 2020s. The 2020s will be the decade when the idea that economic problems can be “left to the market” to solve is finally put to rest – after some 40 years during which that belief has caused untold damage to society and the environment. We can foretell this with such confidence because of the nature…

Monday, 20 January 2020 05:21

Despite Supreme Court ruling, Ihedioha can still be governor. This is how

Tonnie Iredia It is no longer news that in line with last week’s decision of the Supreme Court, Senator Hope Uzodinma is now the Imo State governor. Having decided that the exclusion of certain votes in his favour during the collation of votes at the last governorship election in the state was illegal, the Apex Court went ahead to add the said votes which saw to the victory of the new governor. Uzodinma was promptly sworn in. His immediate predecessor, Emeka Ihedioha who had earlier been declared as the duly elected governor by the electoral body had to step down.…

Monday, 20 January 2020 05:20

Amotekun: To be or not to be? - Bolanle Bolawole

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo in “Les Miserables” “Les Miserables” is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo first published in 1862. Set in the early C19th France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption after serving 19 years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister’s starving child. The literal meaning of “Les Miserables” is “the miserable ones” Valjean, the lead character, finally was released from prison, died a noble and his life was celebrated as he…

Sunday, 19 January 2020 06:31

Do Buhari, Malami know a man called Tafawa Balewa? - Festus Adedayo

Apparently a young officer of the Nigerian Army at the time Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Nigerian Prime Minister from 1957 – 1966, it goes without saying that President Muhammadu Buhari must know of Balewa, even if he didn’t know him. Conversely however, if his official birthday of April 17, 1967 is indeed real, Abubakar Malami probably encountered Balewa as a historical piece. For both however, the life of Balewa and his disposition to Western Nigeria, especially during the crisis that seized the region from 1962 to 1966, should be a reference point if both men do not want the…

Sunday, 19 January 2020 06:31

Mama Igosun opens a new front against Okon - Tatalo Alamu

And whilst we are still on the subject of misbegotten federalism in Nigeria, it is meet to remember the saying that a people perish due to their leaders’ lack of vision. And how Nigerians have been perishing in droves, particularly on the Lagos-Ibadan Express! When this road was opened to public use in 1976, to great national applause, it is curious that nobody envisaged that given rising population and a rapidly expanding economy, we would be needing at least six of such thoroughfares forming a concentric hub to Lagos by 2020. The first time yours sincerely traversed this road in…

Sunday, 19 January 2020 06:30

The inequality debate we need - Kenneth Rogoff

The scientific evidence increasingly indicates that the world may soon reach a point of no return regarding climate change. So, rather than worrying almost exclusively about economic and political inequality, rich-country citizens need to start thinking about how to deal with global energy inequality before it’s too late. While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity. And more than two billion have no clean cooking facilities, forcing them to use toxic alternatives such as animal waste as their main cooking fuel. Furthermore,…

Friday, 17 January 2020 06:05

Mbaka did NOT hear from God - Abimbola Adelakun

Now that the Supreme Court has nullified the election of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Emeka Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State and declared the All Progressives Congress’ Hope Uzodinma the winner of the March 9, 2019 governorship election in the state, I owe it to readers of last week’s article to insist that God has nothing to do with the “prophets” that purportedly speak in his name. No God told Rev Fr Mbaka that Uzodinma would win at the court. More likely, this was what happened: To prepare the public for the electoral magic that would propel Uzodinma from…

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Friday, 17 January 2020 06:04

Now that Iran has confessed... - Bola Bolawole

On Friday, January 3rd this year, a drone attack by the United States killed a prominent Iranian military commander, Qassem Soleimani, and a few others on his entourage in Iraq. Soleimani had meant different things to different people. To the Iranian authorities and those that sided with its policies and politics, Soleimani was the quintessential patriot and nationalist helping to forge a common front to confront the “enemy”, chief of which is America. So, his death was a big blow and a sad loss. To those opposed to Iran’s kind of diplomacy in the Gulf, Soleimani was the moving spirit…

Friday, 17 January 2020 06:03

We, the Biafrans! - Dare Babarinsa

It is 50 years now that the Civil War ended and the soldiers returned home. Thousands never returned. They earned their eternal rest on the battlefields and their comrades in hasty retreat or full flight never had the opportunity to retrieve the bodies. They are represented on the Heroes Acres in Abuja with the statue of the Unknown Soldier. My elder brother, Adeyinka, my father’s first son, returned home with a big gash on his handsome face. He had been shot in the head on a battle field after the bloody crossing from Asaba. For Adeyinka, the army was the…

Thursday, 16 January 2020 05:28

Imo and the arithmetic of injustice - Olusegun Adeniyi

There is a famous scene in Tunde Kelani’s movie, ‘Ti oluwa Ni ile’, which speaks to a time like this in our country. At his meeting with the two young men who were trying to co-opt him into the deal to sell a piece of sacred land which belongs to the entire community, Oloye Otun (the inimitable Kareem Adepoju aka Baba Wande) felt he was being short-changed. He had been offered N50,000 out of the N200,000 he was told the land would be sold for. In assuring him that each would take N50,000 while the remaining N50,000 was reserved for…

Thursday, 16 January 2020 05:21

Nigeria is haunted by its civil war - Max Siollun

Fifty years ago, on Jan. 15, Nigeria’s civil war ended. Fought between the country’s southeast region, which seceded and called itself Biafra, and the rest of the country, which Britain supported and armed, the war was brutal. Over a million people died during three years of conflict. After being starved into submission by a blockade, the Biafrans surrendered and their leaders promised to be “loyal Nigerian citizens.” Half a century later, the war’s legacy continues to hold Nigeria captive. It simultaneously brings the country together and pushes it apart. In the early aftermath of the war, the country appeared to…

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