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Wednesday, 16 October 2024 05:04

Regionalism: The Yoruba-Igbo indigenous African paw in the bottle - Justice Faloye

Restructuring agitators currently pushing for regionalism, as opposed to the 2014 Confab Resolutions of "States as federating units", are either ignorant of the history of regionalism, driven by prebendalist or internal colonialistic or separatist motives. This will set Nigeria back in the quest for representative democracy for every one of its 371 ethnicities regardless of size, without which the country will continue to be destabilized and unable to act as a nation. Some actually see regionalism as a step towards the fulfilment of their separatist dreams to opt out of Nigeria. The British used regionalism to put a knife to…

Tuesday, 15 October 2024 04:41

AI is a rare bright spot for global governance - Ian Bremmer & Marietje Schaake

Multilateralism has fallen on hard times lately, especially at the United Nations. The UN Security Council couldn’t stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon remain elusive, and subsequent COP summits have failed to spur enough concrete action to meet global climate targets. Not only are the UN’s own Sustainable Development Goals off-track; in many cases, progress toward meeting them has reversed. The UN’s foundational commitments to peace, security, and cooperation feel very foreign at a time when multiple wars are raging, protectionism is on the rise, and the world is splitting into rival blocs. But despite this…

Monday, 14 October 2024 04:37

Egbetokun lo’kan - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In 1982, on the foothills of the road to Nigeria’s 1983 general elections, it was quite clear that the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN) had no plans to declare a vacancy in any significant political office around the country. Instead, they seemed bent on consolidating power in order to avoid a remake of the judicial nail-biter that yielded the presidency to Shehu Shagari in 1979. The essential party positions featured a stellar cast. Adisa Akinloye, the party chairman, was a veteran lawyer with political experience predating Nigeria’s independence. The energetic Suleiman Takuma ran the party secretariat and Trade Minister,…

Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:46

Tinubu, Remi, and Akpabio mocking Nigerians' hardship - Farooq A. Kperogi

The torment of incessantly escalating petrol prices and the consequent surge in the cost of everything have plunged Nigerians into a precipitous decline in quality of life. This dire situation is exacerbated by insensitive, almost mocking remarks from those responsible for inflicting this pain. President Bola Tinubu, aptly nicknamed “T-Pain,” recently stated from London that Nigerians would, in the future, appreciate the wisdom of his “reforms.” Such a statement is both callous and mendacious. It is callous because these “reforms” are literally destroying the livelihoods of millions and causing the deaths of many. What possible benefit could the deceased derive…

Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:45

Examining the President’s T-Pain alias - Festus Adedayo

In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable the walls of its captivity are, the moment it is summoned, the spirit comes out and grants the wishes of the one who invoked it. Trust them for their gift of incredible ingenuity, in the thick of their daily pain, Nigerians trip above their existential woes to summon the genius within them. Their latest invocation is a perfect-fit moniker which they affix to their president’s lapel. To them, their president’s diverse self-procured prefixes – Asiwaju, Jagaban, etc –…

Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:43

The bliss and the dilemma of personal choices - Taiwo Akinola

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live ~ Deuteronomy 30:19. Introduction: Excellence in life is all about trade secrets. The more you trade with them, the more excellent you become. All who hope, therefore, to enjoy secure access to a lifeline of breakthrough and fulfillment on earth must enthusiastically search out noble Biblical secrets, and especially engage them in their day-to-day living (Deuteronomy 29:29). God’s kingdom principles constitute the major keys in the…

Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:42

Article of Faith: Guarding our hearts (2) - Femi Aribisala

God, Himself, resides in the heart of the believer in the person of the Holy Spirit. By keeping your heart, you are keeping God. Solomon says: “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23). Guard your heart against what? Guard your heart against sensualism, covetousness, materialism, greed, pride, bitterness, anxiety, rebellion, defiance, and self-pity. Many things are vying for your heart’s affection: the desire for money, lust, envy, pride, and self-promotion. If you are not careful, the basic desire of your heart will switch from pleasing God to pleasing yourself. In…

Friday, 11 October 2024 04:47

How Africa is paying for pursuit of the last Hamas - Azu Ishiekwene

When the Israeli-Hamas war started one year ago, it didn’t look like it would last long. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to avenge the deaths of over 1,200 Israelis killed and dozens taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 at a music concert left little doubt it was going to be a bloody phase. But how long, ugly or bloody, it would take for Netanyahu to kill the last Hamas, which was his minimum condition for peace, was hard to tell. Unfortunately, with over 42,000 killed in Gaza, including women, children, UN workers and journalists, over 1500 Israelis killed…

Thursday, 10 October 2024 04:26

For Pastor Adeboye, apology is the easy part - Abimbola Adelakun

When one of the Afenifere chieftains who had gone to commiserate with Pastor Enoch Adeboye over the death of the son reported that the man showed them a video of Sunday Igboho insulting him, it occurred to me how much this big man of God is affected by public opinion. Otherwise, why would someone like Adeboye care about the opinion of someone like Igboho that he would justify his politics? Some people’s criticism of you should always fly beneath the radar of your notice. For Adeboye to pay attention to critics, to the point of even singling out an acerbic…

Wednesday, 09 October 2024 04:53

A life of service and impact: Celebrating Ishaq Oloyede at 70 - Kunle Akogun

As he attains the Platinum age of 70 on October 10, 2024, Is’haq Olanrewaju Oloyede’s public service trajectory has marked him out as a rare breed Nigerian, who is apparently immune to the general malaise bedevilling the nation’s socio-economic milieu. Here is a university don whose entire public service record radiates transparency, accountability, single-minded commitment to service excellence, administrative acumen, dogged commitment to the achievement of set goals, undiluted integrity, effortless exhibition of leadership by example and unapologetic insistence on fairness to all! In the face of a national feeling of hopelessness, despondency and unending apprehension over whether anything good…

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Monday, 07 October 2024 04:34

Nigeria’s Federal High Court: A scandalised court - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

On 7 June 1911, the High Court of Australia decided a very interesting case. It arose from a publication issued two months earlier, on 7 April 1911, by a newspaper called The Mercury, published from Hobart, in Tasmania. Under the title “A Modest Judge,” the newspaper took aim at Mr Justice Higgins, a senior judge of the High Court of Australia, who was also the first President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. According to the records, in a case presided over by Higgins in the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, a lawyer, Mr Starke, accused a labour…

Sunday, 06 October 2024 04:51

Wike’s Nigeria feeds citizens’ bodies to pigs - Festus Adedayo

Nigerians and indeed, the world, watched aghast last week as a South African grisly movie reel began to roll. Full of all the elements of a movie, it was however a real story. The cast was two black women who, on August 17, were shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer. The victims, Maria Makgato, 45 and Lucia Ndlovu, 34 were scavenging for edible food in consignments of recently expired or soon-to-be-expired produce on a farm located near Polokwane, a South African northern Limpopo province. The expired edible foods were meant for pigs. Before her gruesome murder, Makgato…

Sunday, 06 October 2024 04:49

Moving to the next level - Taiwo Akinola

And the LORD spake unto me, saying,Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward ~ Deuteronomy 2:2-3. Introduction: God takes no pleasure in the stagnation of His people. To condone stagnation is not only frustrating to destiny, it also classifies as a crime of personal injury (Deuteronomy 1:5). It is therefore pertinent for every candidate of excellence to forcefully affix expiry dates to every form of stagnation they encounter in life. The Bible affirms that constant progress is the inheritance of all God’s covenant people (Proverbs 4:18). Hence, next levels of glory, honor and kingdom accomplishments are great…

Sunday, 06 October 2024 04:48

Article of Faith: Guarding our hearts (1) - Femi Aribisala

What is the worst thing that can happen to you? The worst thing that can happen to you is not if one of your relatives dies, or if your house is burnt down, or if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness, or if you are robbed of all your money in cash and in the bank. The worst thing that can happen to you is if the Holy Spirit leaves you. The Holy Spirit is the special gift of God. He is the most important thing in your life. Indeed, He is your life. He is the Spirit of…

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