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Monday, 28 August 2023 05:10

Tinubu and the balablu of frauds - Phrank Shaibu

English humorist, satirist, and author Terry Pratchett, once said “If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong.” Origins are important because they give a sense as to where you may end up. But it is quite surprising that a nation of over 200 million people which prides itself as the Giant of Africa is being piloted by a man who has no known origin and…

Sunday, 27 August 2023 04:27

Interrogating Obaseki’s epistle to Tinubu - Festus Adedayo

On October 21, 1968, a letter was written by a group which went by the name, Egbe Mekunnu Taku, literally, Association of the Adamant Poor, to the then Military Governor of the Western State, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo. The letter explains, and succinctly too, the anger of poor and impoverished people all over the world against governments’ punishing policies. Angered by Adebayo’s jerking up of tax, from a flat rate of three, to six pounds, the association, which comprised mostly farmers, the bulk of whom were taxable workers of the time, literally dared the leopard in its den by lighting…

Sunday, 27 August 2023 04:25

Repositioning yourself for God’s intervention - Taiwo Akinola

Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD …… Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years ~ Isaiah 38:2-5 Introduction Undoubtedly, man is a comprehensive package of God’s supernatural acts (Genesis 1:26-28). He was originally created to operate in a realm beyond and above the natural, in the class of God (Psalms 82:6; John 10:34). Notwithstanding, man still…

Sunday, 27 August 2023 04:24

Article of faith: Unrighteous money - Femi Aribisala

Most Christians do not bother with the words of Jesus. If they did, they would not be Christians. Churches carefully avoid Jesus’ words. They are not words on which a large congregational empire can be built. When the people heard the words of Jesus, they left in droves. When Peter understood the message of Jesus, he prevailed on Jesus to change it. Jesus’ words provide the small gate and narrow road that leads to life that only a few will find. (Matthew 7:14). Deceitful money So let us look at one of those weighty words of Jesus that Christians prefer…

Friday, 25 August 2023 04:55

Gas car rigmarole, questions Tinubu can’t ignore - Azu Ishiekwene

It was not meant to be this way. But like a good number of things Nigerian, the story is hardly complete without a twist in the tale. And so it has been for at least three years now with the story of the gas car that was supposed to lessen, if not end, Nigerians’ petrol misery. Sometime in 2020, state oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (now NNPC Limited), launched what it advertised as the National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP). The major objective of the programme, according to NNPC Group CEO, Mele Kyari, was to harvest gas for car fuel.…

Monday, 21 August 2023 04:31

Pareto and the roots of politics - Alberto Mingardi

Many political disputes in recent years have been framed as battles between economic rationality and eruptions of irrationality that we label populism. But cognitive psychologists and economists would point out that political irrationality is hardly confined to populist insurgents. As a general matter, most political leaders are focused on practical matters and do not necessarily think deeply about the ideas they expound. Among the early modern cartographers of political irrationality was Vilfredo Pareto, who died one hundred years ago, on August 19, 1923. Born in 1848, that year of liberal hope (and revolution) across Europe, Pareto died after witnessing the…

Sunday, 20 August 2023 04:45

Does Shiroro fallen soldiers’ blood matter? - Festus Adedayo

When death became ubiquitous and cheap as air, afflicting the young and the old in their scores, Yoruba of old said it had become three-for-a-penny. There was what they called iyo olo’kan (one-penny salt). Ookan was a penny and the least of the denominations of the money of the time. A mound of salt was sold for a penny. Death that harvested people in their prime, unannounced, they also likened to creepy, parasitic mistletoe – afomo. It is a leathery-leaved parasitic plant which grows on apple, oak, and other broadleaf trees in the forest and also sticks to trees, either…

Sunday, 20 August 2023 04:44

Enjoying the showers of blessing in His season - Taiwo Akinola

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing ~ Ezekiel 34:26. Introduction I strongly affirm that God is sending a refreshing prophetic message to His people worldwide, right now. He is declaring a season of showers of blessing upon us, with a view to reinvigorating our lives, homes and ministries. Ordinarily, when we talk of showers, especially in this clime, we're talking of rain, or water pouring from above. The word often connotes a large quantity…

Sunday, 20 August 2023 04:42

Article of faith: Necessary evil - Femi Aribisala

If, according to God’s kingdom dynamics, the ways of God are antithetical to the ways of man, then God must consider evil to be good for man. Evil did not just happen, God created it. He says: “That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” (Isaiah 45:6-7). Evil is not of essence. Evil is created. The good God is…

Friday, 18 August 2023 04:55

Engaging Nigerien military president is like having sex with someone you hate - Azu Ishiekwene

A good number of people, including me, seems opposed to Nigeria leading the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to war in Niger. In one of the most telling anti-war metaphors, a Nigerian columnist and Editor, Lasisi Olagunju, likened military intervention to rubbing buttocks with the porcupine. Doves everywhere are flying the flag of peace. Protesters are also waving placards reminding Nigeria’s President and ECOWAS Chairman, Bola Tinubu, not to start a war he cannot finish. As if he doesn’t know, Tinubu has also been reminded, among other things, that there’s already too much trouble at home – insecurity,…

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Thursday, 17 August 2023 04:53

Akpabio has no motivation to be different - Abimbola Adelakun

Many an unflattering adjective has been deployed to describe the vulgarisms of Senate President Godswill Akpabio. None of it matters. If you thought his predecessor, Ahmad Lawan, was too servile in his dealings with the executive, Akpabio leaves you with no doubt that he would be a lickspittle. In the video his aides made of him attending the plenary session last month, Akpabio’s cap carried an inscription of the Bola Tinubu campaign insignia. For a man who would lead the legislature—a branch of government that presumably serves the democratic function of checking and balancing the excesses of the powerful executive—to…

Monday, 14 August 2023 04:24

Economists reconsider industrial policy - Dani Rodrik, Reka Juhasz & Nathan Lane

As policymakers around the world embrace industrial policy in pursuit of a wide variety of objectives – supply-chain resilience, green technologies, geopolitical advantage, good jobs – the debate over its effectiveness is reaching fever pitch. Typically, this debate is portrayed as one where sound economics is squarely on the skeptics’ side. “There is a strong case against industrial policy in economics,” intoned one recent commentary, and embracing it “just wastes money and distorts the economy.” But this is an increasingly outmoded view. While it is generally true that mainstream economists have responded to industrial policy with knee-jerk hostility since at…

Sunday, 13 August 2023 04:27

Obi, Atiku, Tinubu: Judgment Day beckons - Festus Adedayo

The Nigerian Presidential Election Petition Court has reserved its judgment. Apprehension and expectation are playing hide and seek in the air. Judgment Day is here. Theologians, writers and musicians have painted poignant colours of the judgment day. From the 1998-direct-to-video film of John Terlesky with that same title – Judgment Day – depicting disaster in the air as a giant meteor that would soon hit the earth, to the Italian Renaissance painter, Michelangelo’s fresco painting which he labeled The Last Judgment, judgment day has never been a tea party. Rastafari-influenced Donald "Tabby" Shaw, Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson…

Sunday, 13 August 2023 04:25

The essence and the power of true worship - Taiwo Akinola

It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD …. then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD; So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God ~ 2 Chronicles 5:13-14. Introduction Worshipping God is a very crucial aspect of Christian life. Albeit, it is like its real essence is fast becoming elusive for many people. In fact, what’s sometimes…

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