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Sunday, 19 February 2023 05:52

Of coup, interim government and allied nonsense - Festus Adedayo

At times like this, two works of literature are my abiding refuge. One, written over a century ago, speaks to the melee, both in the APC and Nigeria as a whole. It is a poem entitled The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats. It was written at a time similar to that of present Nigeria. It was a time when it looked like the world was coming to an end. The casualties of the First World War were benumbing and overwhelmingly high. The deaths of millions from the pangs of the flu pandemic that also occurred at this time were…

Sunday, 19 February 2023 05:51

The overflowing goodness of God (3) - Taiwo Akinola

Trusting and Tasting the Goodness of God! O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him ~ Psalm 34:8. Introduction The cheerful truth that all believers must, with the most profound admiration, tightly embrace is that the Lord is good. His goodness is particularly amiable and very tasteful indeed! Any day, good or bad, God is good. He never changes. Goodness is an essential property of His divine nature (Exodus 34:6). Divine goodness has different designations depending on its objective focus, or the objects on which it terminates, per time. It is…

Friday, 17 February 2023 05:30

Looking back, facing forward as Nigeria decides - Azu Ishiekwene

It’s hard to imagine that it’s nearly eight years since. This time in 2015, I was over the moon with the prospects of a general election that was certain to end the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, which had lost its way. Folks were so excited at the prospects of change that in the Southwest, a Yoruba version of “February” the month of the general election, was improvised: “Fe-Buhari”; meaning, “Love Buhari”, thus investing him with the aura of Cupid, the Greek god of erotic love. That’s how over the moon we were. Not without a reason. Boko Haram’s violent…

Friday, 17 February 2023 05:29

Akeredolu’s beef with Northern beef - ‘Sina Kawonise

On January 8, 2022, this news broke: “Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has advised those residing in southwest states to consider killing chickens for ceremonies instead of cows in order to prevent capital flight. “According to the governor, the region has been losing nothing less than N2.5 billion daily to the consumption of cows. Akeredolu stated this while addressing some stakeholders in the education sector in Akure, the state capital. The governor, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Agriculture and Agric-business, Akin Olotu, said the consumption of chickens for ceremonies was not only healthy but will also boost…

Thursday, 16 February 2023 05:59

Our unserious Supreme Court - Abimbola Adelakun

When the news story that the Supreme Court had gone rogue on critics of its recent judgments was first shared with me, my initial thought was that it had to be an internet hoax. I imagined it was impossible that a SC would ever single out individuals in the bid to justify itself. SC might respond to a peer institution if the need to give an account of itself arises, but to single out individuals critical of their functioning and threaten them? Preposterous! When they said, “Our silence must not be mistaken for weakness or cowardice,” what exactly do they…

Monday, 13 February 2023 03:36

A reply to a Supreme Court of illiterate judicial bandits - Farooq Kperogi

When I opened my WhatsApp on Saturday, I saw a higher than usual volume of messages and forwards from friends. The first one I opened was a riotously uneducated, sidesplittingly error-ridden, indefensibly malapropistic press statement attacking me for calling out the Supreme Court’s bizarre perversion of justice in recognizing Senate President Ahmed Lawan as Yobe North’s APC senatorial candidate when he didn’t participate in a primary election. The statement was such an uproariously juvenile drivel that I sincerely thought it was written by someone who was trying his hand at textual comedy—following the wild success of online video comic skits.…

Monday, 13 February 2023 03:34

What are the politicians promising the Southwest? - Bola Bolawole

Today, I will begin by telling some bible stories to illustrate the points that I seek to make; the first is that of David and Goliath recorded in 1 Samuel 17: 1–58: “Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle... 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. 4 And there…

Monday, 13 February 2023 03:33

Tinubu, Abeokuta declarations, emi lokan and equity - Hassan Gimba

There is something about Bola Tinubu, Jagaba of Borgu and the presidential candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC), and Abeokuta. Whenever he feels threatened or that things are not going the way he wants them to, he goes to Abeokuta and delivers what we can term a declaration - in Yoruba. Appealing to the sentiments of the Yoruba, he plays the victim of a conspiracy. True or false, it somehow pays for him. Agreed declarations are not legally binding but they show certain aspirations. That he finds solace in making what we could term declarations in the town founded…

Sunday, 12 February 2023 05:52

Buhari's new Naira notes and death of Penkelemes' musician - Festus Adedayo

In 1984, Nigeria happened to Ayanyemi Atokowagbowonle. Atokowagbowonle was a musician whose style was unique, his delivery peculiar and he was the official musician of the stormy petrel of Ibadan politics, Adelabu Adegoke, a.k.a. Penkelemes, of the National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon (NCNC). The then new Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, had just violently seized the reins of power in Nigeria. That year April, Buhari had ordered the colours of all banknotes in circulation to be changed. The currency trafficking prevalent at the time and stolen funds by politicians must be repatriated, he said. The Naira’s official exchange rate…

Sunday, 12 February 2023 05:50

The overflowing goodness of God (2) - Taiwo Akinola

How To Truly Enjoy The Goodness of God I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living ~ Psalms 27:13. Introduction Beloved, just imagine what effects it would have on you, and the consequent impacts it could generate in your world if you were to experience a continuous flow of God’s power and a nonstop overflow of His goodness, just like the Israelites did in the wilderness! At that time, about three million people experienced God’s power firsthand, every single day, for 40 years. They were in dire need…

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Sunday, 12 February 2023 05:49

‘Our Parent in Heaven’: Liberals push for a gender-neutral God

Robert Bridge The Church of England is considering changing the scriptures so that the Lord is no longer a ‘he’ At a time when Church membership has hit an all-time low in the Western world, it might seem odd that Christian leaders appear more determined than ever to alienate what’s left of their dwindling flock through woke nonsense. In December, for example, the Dean of Trinity College left an assembly of worshippers in tears after he argued that the body of Jesus Christ appeared to be “trans.” Part of the reasoning was due to the wound on his side, made…

Sunday, 12 February 2023 05:48

There is glory and God in our struggles - Esau McCaulley

Every February, Black History Month, Americans engage in a futile attempt to squeeze into 28 days the history of a people whose tribulations, contributions and successes are on every page of the American narrative. For African Americans, at least, the struggle to tell our story and make sense of our place in the American saga never recedes from view. Understanding who we are and why we have suffered so much in this country are something like existential questions that wax and wane, coinciding with the peaks and valleys of anti-Black racism. Are we more than the identities and labels people…

Thursday, 09 February 2023 05:57

Like Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, like Muhammadu Buhari? - Bola Bolawole

Poet Laureate, Niyi Osundare’s latest intervention best captures the mood of the moment. Aptly touted “Incompetence weds Corruption”, the first and the last statements fascinate me most. The first says: “Pepeiye nigba ti oo m’owe/Ki lo be lu’odo se?” Translated, it is a pointed question to the Duck, wondering why, when it knew it could not swim, it still jumped into the river. The Duck here is the president, retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and the river is Nigeria and its state of affairs. Ordinarily, ducks are master swimmers, water is their familiar terrain. In like manner everyone had expected that…

Tuesday, 07 February 2023 05:48

Lawan and Supreme Court of shameless judicial bandits - Farooq Kperogi

I was awoken on this side of the world by news of the reversal by the Nigerian Supreme Court of Senate President Ahmed Lawan's primary election loss. I was already mentally prepared for it after the same Supreme Court affirmed Godswill Akpabio's fraudulent primary win a few days ago. It's a well-planned judicial choreography. The Nigerian Supreme Court is straight-up the most hopeless Supreme Court in the history of the world's supreme courts. The same Court violated common sense and the will of voters and gave us a "Supreme Court governor" in Imo State who never even pretended to have…

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