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Monday, 05 June 2023 04:12

Agenda for Mr President - Hassan Gimba

“So many people are hanging on by the thinnest of threads. Treat people with kindness, you could be that thread.” – John Pavlovitz The above proverbial expression, which alludes to an occasion between Damocles and King Dionysius, may define the situation between Nigerians and their president. Without a doubt, President Bola Tinubu took the oath of office amidst significant concerns expressed by many Nigerians. Apart from that, the courts are still hearing challenges to his emergence as president. He is also, so far, the only president with a minority of votes in an election in Nigeria. Every president since 1999…

Sunday, 04 June 2023 04:28

Joe Biden’s fall and Nigeria’s shake - Festus Adedayo

America was a pitiable sight last Thursday. That great country was crouched on the bare floor. It fell like a huge hippopotamus. President Joe Biden’s legs were wrapped over each other like a malevolent viper that had just had its backbone yanked apart by an irreverent bullet. America looked helpless. The edges of Biden’s blue suit raised their hands up in surrender, leaving the world gaping through his now visible white singlet. The only thing on him that seemed unfazed by the fall was his blue fez cap. For the first time ever, cameras pierced through the underneath of Biden’s…

Sunday, 04 June 2023 04:25

Building according to God’s order for marital success - Taiwo Akinola

And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount ~ Exodus 25:40. Introduction God intends that Christian homes should be a foretaste of heaven on earth. However, for many families these days, this ideal has become like a mirage, or like a distant echo that has lost resonance. This sad scenario is as a result of the grievous disconnect from God's original plan and norm for the home, which is commonplace in many human communities today. Indeed, many people are toiling and struggling in vain as a direct consequence of this blatant disregard…

Sunday, 04 June 2023 04:24

Article of faith: Jesus is a slave trader (2) - Femi Aribisala

The psalmist prophesied about Jesus’ resurrection: “You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive.” (Psalm 68:18). However, Jesus does not lead unbelievers or demons. He only leads believers. Therefore, believers are the captivity that the psalmist prophesied Jesus would lead captive. Jesus rescues us from the captivity of sin and then puts us in the captivity of righteousness. This is how Paul expresses this kingdom dynamic: “Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which…

Sunday, 04 June 2023 04:23

Chai! Pastor sold the better cheaper!! - Niran Olatona

I gave two women to a husband yesterday. Leah looks like a centenarian with her two pedals. It has a few scars on her black skin rendering her less sparkling to the eye compared to her brownish, shapely, colourful and elegant younger sister. What she lacked in terms of physical beauty was compensated for with the sonorous sound that comes from this upright piano which is bound to attract ears favoured to decipher why an older violin resonates better. I did what a normal businessman would do to minimize risk. I offered Leah at a price that was almost 40%…

Friday, 02 June 2023 04:33

Tinubu biting the bullet from Day One - Azu Ishiekwene

President Bola Tinubu is under fire for announcing that petrol subsidy is gone from day one. His inauguration address also touched on a unified currency exchange, high interest rate and power, among others. Of all these, however, the one that got the headlines was petrol subsidy and the most frequently expressed concern, is why now? To say, in his first speech, that fuel subsidy was gone, that a unified exchange rate was vital, and that the current interest rate was anti-people and anti-business, was the economic equivalent of an earthquake. Of the four preceding presidential inauguration speeches since 1999 from…

Friday, 02 June 2023 04:32

Illiberalism is a threat to democracy—on the right and left - Theodore R. Johnson

In middle school, I played on a football team that lost every game. Our coaches tried to keep our spirits high by reciting the proverb once heard on fields and courts across the country: It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. When it comes to the state of our democracy, Americans would do well to heed those words. That old saying may appear out of place in a democratic society obsessed with election outcomes and legislative victories. Too many politicians interpret a ballot box victory as a mandate to shove their party’s agenda down…

Thursday, 01 June 2023 04:28

The idiot West is sleeping as the end of the world draws near - Allister Heath

Just like George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, it turns out that the Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator franchise was a blueprint, not a work of science fiction. When Skynet, a network of computers created by the military contractor Cyberdyne Systems, gained self-awareness, panicky humans tried to deactivate it. The newly formed artificial intelligence (AI) identified “all humans as a threat”, “decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination” and launched a nuclear attack on every major city. Four decades on, fiction risks becoming fact. In the most chilling warning since the Szilárd petition of 1945 and the establishment…

Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:33

Start parking, it’s a new beginning - Niran Olatona

It is no more news that the 8 years tenure of PMB is ended! A new government has come in after a lot of torturous experience for the fowl and the rope whereon it chose to rest. It is a new dawn that may mean a downward trend for some and an upward move for some. I have chosen it would be for my good! Whoever is taking a new role has more at stake than the person who is signing off. The one exiting already has his name written on the marble or sand and whatever he says or…

Monday, 29 May 2023 04:23

The criminal takeover of Nigeria - Chris Akor

Today, May 29th, a certified drug dealer and the head of the mafia that has held Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, in a suffocating grip, will be inaugurated as President of Nigeria. It is a pity the late Africanist, Stephen Ellis, who has devoted so much time to researching and writing about the unholy alliance between state actors and criminal gangs in both South Africa and Nigeria won’t be alive to witness the entire criminal takeover of the state itself. In the 1990s, Ellis systematically showed how all state actors in South Africa got entangled with, legitimized, armed, and collaborated with…

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Monday, 29 May 2023 04:14

Well, like everything else, this too shall pass - Hassan Gimba

"The measurement of a man is what he does with power." - Plato Today marks the end of the two-term tenure of a man who came with tremendous goodwill, the kind never before witnessed in Nigeria’s chequered political history. One can still remember some young Nigerians trekking from one end of Nigeria to another in high hopes of the new president. However, unlike Caesar, it is doubtful if he can thump his chest and declare "Veni, vidi, vici"—I came; I saw; I conquered. Muhammadu Buhari was the first to beat an incumbent president in a free and fair election in…

Sunday, 28 May 2023 04:23

As Buhari conducts Tinubu round the Villa… - Festus Adedayo

Forget their pretensions and volte-faces, when outgoing Nigerian public officials wake up tomorrow, May 29, they will wake up into emptiness. That void cannot be filled by the wealth they acquired in office. Nor can it be impeached by Muhammadu Buhari’s reported haste to flee Aso Villa tomorrow. At the launch of a book on his administration at the Presidential Villa on Friday, the outgoing president had said: “I assure you, I have been counting the days; I am looking forward to Monday very desperately. I will use the weekend to sign some of the papers so that from Eagles…

Sunday, 28 May 2023 04:18

Tackling faulty foundations in the marriage union - Taiwo Akinola

For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ ~ 1 Corinthians 3:11. Introduction: There are many couples out there these days who seem to be in perpetual emotional pain because of certain agonizing marital issues. These harrowing experiences are most noticeable in marriages that are contracted on faulty foundations, especially in homes plagued with gross ignorance as to how to tackle the inevitable mess of such foundational errors. Happy, healthy, successful, harmonious and lifelong marriages don’t just happen, neither can they be willed into existence by wishful thinking. They’re usually worked out:…

Sunday, 28 May 2023 04:16

Article of faith: Jesus is a slave trader (1) - Femi Aribisala

I wrote in my new book, Kingdom Dynamics: The Day of My Death, that Jesus saved my life and then took my life. He saved me because He wanted to kill me. As a result, my Saviour became my adversary and killer. That is kingdom dynamics. Similarly, Jesus frees slaves from bondage and then enslaves them Himself. Indeed, the greatest slave trader of all is Jesus Christ. If Jesus enslaves you and you try to escape, you are going to get into trouble. Enslaved Jews When the king who did not know Joseph became Pharaoh in Egypt, the Jews became…

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