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Sunday, 13 April 2025 04:32

Mixed metaphors: The loyalty line - Solana Olumhense

You probably call it something else, but I call it the Loyalty Line: that routine line-up of top government—mostly security-related—officials in front of the presidential jet when a Nigerian leader is about to travel. You’ve seen it over and over: officials of the National Security Council and the National Defence Council standing against the backdrop of the aircraft. In case you didn’t know, the NSC advises the President on security matters, including issues relating to organizations or agencies responsible for national security. Similarly, the NDC advises the President on matters concerning the defence of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.…

Sunday, 13 April 2025 04:29

His Word, our wonders! - Taiwo Akinola

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions ~ Psalms 107:20. Introduction We are in an amazing time for technology throughout the world today. Think of the robotics, the cyber networks, the space invasions, the brain and the open heart surgeries, the test-tube fertility programs, the cloning technology, the guided missiles and a host of others. Certainly, most of these simply bespeak stupefying wonders. However, amazing as they may sound, they could be dubbed as near to nothing when compared with the incredible wonders that God has in store for the believers in Christ Jesus,…

Sunday, 13 April 2025 04:28

Article of Faith: The root of all evil - Femi Aribisala

Is it good to go to school; get a good job; build your own house and have lots of money? Not according to Jesus. These things are highly valued by men. But Jesus teaches that: “What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.” (Luke 16:15). Therefore, it is not surprising that Jesus had none of these accomplishments as a man. He did not go to school. He was a lowly carpenter. He did not build His own house. He was not a rich man. In Jesus’ doctrine, the cares of this life are the preoccupations of Satan…

Saturday, 12 April 2025 04:16

Stop the drift towards anarchy - Jibrin Ibrahim

It is legitimate to pose the question – is our State drifting towards anarchy? Do we have a social contract with State institutions that provide for our security and welfare? It is a question worth posing, as we note the dramatic breakdown in security provisioning that has created a climate of disillusion in the State as a protector of citizens. Secondly, there is a significant rise and expansion of sectarian conflicts, both ethnic and religious, fuelled in part by massive disinformation and hate speech in both the traditional and social media. Thirdly, Nigeria’s elite consensus on federalism and the federal…

Friday, 11 April 2025 04:32

Fake outrage and the making of the Uromi 16 - Azu Ishiekwene

It’s a most unlikely crime scene. I travelled by road from the Benin airport to Uromi, Esanland's most significant town, for a wedding about three years ago. The fear of kidnappers is a constant worry for road users. I was nervous for nearly four hours of the taxi ride, especially as we turned off the busy Agbor Road and veered onto narrow, lonely roads meandering through many forested small towns and villages. I was nervous. When the driver ran into a pothole, and a loud noise suggested we might have lost a wheel or something, I insisted he should keep…

Thursday, 10 April 2025 04:26

Lagos, not money, killed Mrs Folajimi - Abimbola Adelakun

The Lagos State Government has initiated a probe into the tragic maternal death of Mrs Kemi Folajimi, the pregnant woman who supposedly died because a private healthcare facility denied her crucial emergency care when her husband could not deposit N500,000 for her treatment. We have been Nigerians for long enough to know how the probe will go: embarrassed government officials will make the right noises, but very little structural change will be achieved by the end of the day. Mrs Folajimi did not die because of money; she died because Lagos is a disorganised city with a lack of infrastructure…

Tuesday, 08 April 2025 04:49

Will Musk’s nightmare come true? - Robert Weissberg

Elon Musk was recently asked what kept him up at night. His greatest fear was the possible collapse of the United States. In Musk own worlds, "I worry generally about the strength of America. America is the central column that holds up all of Western civilization... If that column fails, it's all over. You can't run off to New Zealand or some other place. It's over. So either we strengthen that column and make sure America is strong, and we'll be strong for a long time, or that roof’s coming down." Musk is a hard-headed, data-driven businessman, so his pessimism…

Monday, 07 April 2025 04:05

Nigeria and the fading lights of justice - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

As he settled in to deliver the judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on 2 April, presiding judge, Wilfred Kpochi, felt obliged to get one ritual out of the way. Glancing left and right, he asked each of his two colleagues on the three-person tribunal to confirm that the judgment he was about to deliver was unanimous. Justice Kpochi only proceeded after each, one to his left and the other to his right, nodded their affirmation. The judge had good reason for this preliminary ritual. About 48 hours before it was due, a leaked document purporting to…

Sunday, 06 April 2025 04:39

Boss, I’m busy - Niran Olatona

Yesterday, I was summoned to the multi-billion Naira construction site of the Ekiti State Internal Revenue House by the contractor, who breathlessly informed me that VIPs were en route to inspect the project. After reviewing the progress, we stood like sentinels at Jesus' tomb, waiting for the VIPs. Time ticked on, and as our legs grew weary, the site supervisor — a man pushing 70 — politely asked a young artisan, likely in his late twenties, to fetch three chairs for us to rest. What followed left us stunned like an immaculately dressed party who had just been baptised with…

Sunday, 06 April 2025 04:32

Anointed for good deeds - Taiwo Akinola

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor …. and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised ~ Luke 4:18. Introduction: Touching lives with the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ sometimes looks very easy, but it is not always so. You definitely need Someone bigger than you — the Holy Spirit Himself — to excel in the spiritual arts of doing good and touching other lives for God on earth! Quite unfortunately, many people remain oblivious of this…

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Sunday, 06 April 2025 04:31

Article of Faith: Christian rock stars and superstars - Femi Aribisala

Churches now do telemarketing surveys, asking: “What would you like in a church?” In effect, many churches are made to measure, according to the greatest demand and not according to God’s prescriptions. Some pastors even go further and play it safe. They have surveys asking our members what kind of messages they would like to hear. This is a standard operating procedure in the world of business marketing. You find out what your potential customers want, and you give it to them. But it is inappropriate for the kingdom of God, which is based on the will of our Father…

Friday, 04 April 2025 04:21

When are you going to get a proper job? - Azu Ishiekwene

He didn’t say when his father asked him, but I wonder what the old man must think in his grave. Jonathan Power is now 83 and arguably one of Europe’s most widely published columnists. He was a young freelance journalist when his father asked him the question. Still, even if he had lived to see his son syndicated globally, including by some of the world’s most prestigious newspapers and magazines, I’m not sure his father would have retracted the question: when will you get a proper job? Power’s father didn’t think of journalism as a job. Instead, he considered it…

Thursday, 03 April 2025 02:44

Uromi: Matching injustice for injustice - Abimbola Adelakun

Years ago, I had an unforgettable experience of nearly witnessing a lynching at Iwo Road in Ibadan. It was a typical day, and while standing at a bus stop, a woman two paces away suddenly shouted that her purse had been snatched. She held the clothes of the man standing beside her. Before you knew it, the place had transformed. A crowd quickly gathered around, many of them young men who seemed to have magically sprouted from thin air. From ordinary guys going about their lives, they instantly transmuted into the judiciary and were ready to execute a self-designated mandate.…

Monday, 31 March 2025 04:49

Sunday Jackson: A victim of a miscarriage of justice - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Numan, the town that lends its name to one of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State in north-east Nigeria, is home to the Bwatiye (Bachama), a transnational identity group stretching into parts of Cameroon. Located in the basin of Benue River and one of its tributaries, River Taraba, Numan’s fecund lands play host to vast energies in sedentary agriculture. Fulbe pastoralists have for long also found it welcoming for grazing their herds. These factors have made Numan a major frontier in the murderous livelihood conflict that has pitted sedentary farmers against armed pastoralists in the Middle Belt of…

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