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Saturday, 20 April 2019 06:09

Why Jesus on the cross Is no mere symbol - Peter Wehner

During a Christmas break while I was a student at the University of Washington, I tuned in to a show that influenced the trajectory of my faith, quite by accident. It was a broadcast of an hourlong “Firing Line” interview in 1980 between William F. Buckley Jr. and Malcolm Muggeridge, the British journalist who late in life converted to Christianity. In the course of the interview, Mr. Muggeridge used a parable. Imagine that the Apostle Paul, after his Damascus Road conversion, starts off on his journey, Mr. Muggeridge said, and consults with an eminent public relations man. “I’ve got this…

Saturday, 20 April 2019 06:08

Arguments in the Nigerian Left - Edwin Madunagu

The 2019 general elections provoked undeclared and unstructured discussions and debates in the Nigerian Left. Of the various themes that can be articulated from these animated exchanges of opinions – some of which are continuing – at least three may be considered central in the history and politics of revolutionary socialist struggle in Nigeria. My interest in this article is more to help the discussions to continue – at all levels - more productively and heuristically than to take definitive positions. And I shall attempt to serve this primary interest by providing information, clarifications and reminders. I shall also recall…

Saturday, 20 April 2019 06:07

As ‘The North’ goes under - Okey Ikechukwu

The visit to Zamfara State in 2014 was at once frightening, sobering and demoralising. Though seated in a sprawling parlour with massive chairs, we were all unconsciously in a huddled position, as the then Secretary to the State Government explained how he abandoned his farm and ranch because of cattle rustling and fear for his personal safety. Zamfara was at the mercy of the elements and it was impossible to deploy law enforcement agents, even for himself, in any meaningful way. He talked about the humiliating experience some of the men were often subjected to by the bandits. They would…

Thursday, 18 April 2019 06:35

Nigeria will not survive 2019 elections - Femi Aribisala

For those of us who had hoped against hope, the 2019 presidential election has proved to be the last straw. We are now convinced that Nigeria is a hopeless case. This country is not just a major disappointment; it is decidedly firmly on the trajectory of a future break up. Today, the silence in the Nigerian political space is deafening. Just look back to 2015 and before, when there was vibrant debate about almost everything under the sun. But now it is “siddon look.” We just had an election that was no election and more like selection. It was even…

Thursday, 18 April 2019 06:33

Of rape, Helen Paul and Osun state govt - Bola Bolawole

Ace comedian, Helen Paul, is not your mill-of-the-run personality; not only because she is acclaimed in her chosen profession or extra-ordinary in the application of the gifts and talents God gave unto her but also because she combines brains with brawn. She is brave; she is courageous, and, above all, she is public-spirited. Her “never-say-die” spirit, which saw her rise from the status of never-do-well to a star and role model should encourage and energise others in her shoes. Her story, told by herself, that she was the product of rape, someone called a “bastard” even by family members and…

Thursday, 18 April 2019 06:32

Remembering the street child - Jideofor Adibe

April 12, the day set aside since 2012 as the International Day for Street Children, has come and gone. In our dear country, with its hustles and hassles, the day went largely unnoticed, barely reported and scarcely celebrated. The International Day for Street Children is meant to call attention to the plight of children without home – variously called ‘homeless children’, ‘beggars’, ‘juvenile delinquents’ ‘street urchins’ or ‘bad kids’. They are the children, who, while their mates are being pampered elsewhere; rough it out daily with the inclement elements. During the day you can find some going through trash, begging…

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:58

Tiger Woods and the game of life - Thomas L. Friedman

Golf is all about how you react when you get a bad bounce. Although my day job is writing the foreign affairs column for The New York Times — more Persian Gulf than fairway golf — thinking about golf and playing as often as I can is my all-consuming hobby. So like millions of others, I was awed by Tiger Woods’s comeback for the ages by his winning the Masters at 43 years old. What can be learned from it? It’s hard for nongolfers to appreciate the scope of Tiger’s physical and psychological achievement, after he went through four back…

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 04:56

Papering over our plight - Abiodun Komolafe

Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party. A Pan Africanist par excellence, Tinubu is one leader whose fidelity to the Nigeria project is legendary and investment in the people’s future is unimpeachable. These extraordinary features manifested again at the 11th Bola Tinubu Colloquium, organized as part of activities marking his 67th birthday. In his closing remarks on the occasion, the Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban of Borgu Kingdom advised President Muhammadu Buhari to use his second term in office to improve Nigeria’s economy, in line with the party’s ‘Next Level’ campaign slogan.…

Tuesday, 16 April 2019 04:49

The terror to come - Stuart Gottlieb

In 1999, two of the most infamous terrorists of the 1990s - one a militant jihadist, the other a violent white nationalist - found plenty to chat about in the yard of their supermax prison in Florence, Colo. Timothy McVeigh, mastermind of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 and injured hundreds more, was thrilled to discover he had "lots in common" with the equally murderous Ramzi Yousef, ringleader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a precursor to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "I never have [known] anyone in my life who…

Monday, 15 April 2019 04:09

Why Buhari can’t and won’t solve North’s growing security crisis - Farooq Kperogi

The last few days have seen a hypocritical mass awakening to the dire existential torments the people of Nigeria’s Northwest face and a dramatic diminution of Buhari’s unearned goodwill in the region. People who had constructed Buhari as an unerring, irreproachable demigod who is worthy only of worship and unquestioned admiration have started to call him insensitive and clueless. It took the unceasing escalation of kidnappings and the deepening and widening of the oceans of blood in the Northwest for Buhari’s erstwhile unthinking worshipers to come to terms with what some of us have known and said since late 2015:…

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Monday, 15 April 2019 04:06

Between moribund Nigeria Airways and domineering Ethiopian Airlines - Folu Olamiti

That Nigeria - the supposed giant of Africa - is without a national airline, befuddles right thinking Nigerians. Once buoyant Nigeria Airways came onboard in 1958 after the dissolution of West African Corporation, WAAC. It began operation on October 1, 1958, and in 1971, it was rebranded to the name it had until it ceased operations in 2003. At the peak of its life span, the airline had 44 aircraft on its fleet, and strongly showcased and flew Nigeria’s flag around the world. By the magnificence and efficiency of the airline, Nigeria became the toast of many airlines which sent…

Sunday, 14 April 2019 03:56

Why we get killed abroad and perish on the Mediterranean - Festus Adedayo

The execution of the Nigerian woman in South Africa recently, the arrest of another five for armed robbery in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa are tripodal issues that call attention of Nigerians to their worth in the outside world. Eight Nigerians were earlier executed in Saudi Arabia in recent time and twenty other Nigerians are listed today on death row in the same country while many others are in various prisons in other prisons in Saudi. These are critical social issues that should bother us as a people and which invariably…

Saturday, 13 April 2019 04:45

India will never be the next China - Morgan Stanley strategist

Reshma Kapadia Morgan Stanley strategist shares his views on India’s politics, stocks, and economy, and cautions against comparing the country to China. As a child, Ruchir Sharma spent his summers in his maternal grandparents’ small town in Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s poorest and most populous states. Although the town was about four hours from New Delhi, it was a world away from his otherwise urban life. Distractions were few so he spent his summers studying adults—and watching them “hurl their choicest insults at the TV” as they took part in India’s leading spectator sport: politics. It was an early…

Friday, 12 April 2019 04:33

Leftists on ‘tribalism’: 70 years ago - Edwin Madunagu

At the beginning it was called “tribal politics”; then it became “ethnic politics”; and, now, it is evolving into “identity politics”. But the phenomenon remains what it has always been – from colonialism to all its bourgeois successors. Sometimes it lies in low intensity – and many people forget it is there, all the time. At other times it flares up, blowing its poisonous venom everywhere, or merely raising its poisonous head-in silent warning. When the phenomenon erupted in Lagos during Elections 2019 (as it did in Elections 2015) and some Leftists vigorously confronted it in their own way and…

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