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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…

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…

Monday, 06 February 2023 05:55

Why the agitation for Yoruba nation... - Bola Bolawole

I never knew it was an interview; I had thought it was one of those “reactions” that reporters seek from members of the audience or those they think can help them flesh up or throw some insights into a story line they are pursuing – and I have done this on a couple of occasions for The Guardian reporter, Kehinde Olatunji. So I was pleasantly surprised when the last outing turned out as a full-blown interview on the very important topic of the agitation for a Yoruba nation. Titled “Our agitation is for a restructured Nigeria, not Yoruba President, says…

Monday, 06 February 2023 05:53

The god of Wike! Buhari is alone! And other illusions (2) - Hassan Gimba

President Muhammadu Buhari’s followers, therefore, created in him an image of an ascetic, beyond reproach, and so canonised him as a saint. And he also did his best to fit into that picture. Ramrod, shed of any fat and wearing the cheapest materials around, the story was that he had seen it all yet refused to be tempted into taking anything from anywhere he worked. He was a military governor with executive powers over what are now six states and then a federal commissioner of petroleum and later a military head of state. Yet he depended on nothing other than…

Sunday, 05 February 2023 06:03

Okon is in a class of his own - Tatalo Alamu

After his last attempt to import Calabar carnival into Lagos ended in a fiasco with Eyo masquerades from Ilubirin chasing the impudent rascal across the Carter Bridge, it became clear to snooper that very soon, Okon would get his master into trouble with the law. Each time he was thwarted in a scheme to make some money, Okon comes up with more inventive scams. The last time he ventured near the Marina, he was beaten to an inch of his life for passing off cow dung as the latest aphrodisiac from Bombay. Yet the mad Calabar boy has remained undaunted.…

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Sunday, 05 February 2023 06:01

Nigeria at point zero - Festus Adedayo

I am peering at the viral video of the naked young man inside the banking hall as I write this. His manhood dangles like the pendulum of the Grandfather Clock of colonial Nigeria. He is totally naked, even as he shouts that he needs to withdraw cash from the bank. I am aghast and disillusioned at the same time. I do not know what to think. My mouth is wide open, saliva gliding majestically as it drooled off my lower lip. Before now, I saw a similar video. It was that of a semi-naked young lady. She too had peeled…

Sunday, 05 February 2023 06:00

The overflowing goodness of God (1) - Taiwo Akinola

Understanding The Divine Goodness O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him ~ Psalms 34:8. Introduction The God of the Bible is the “Eternal Being” that possesses so many unusual and distinctive attributes which are very essential to our lives and godliness. He is omnipotent (all-powerful), omnipresent (everywhere-present), omniscient (all-knowing) and omni-benevolent (supremely good). God is also peculiarly characterized by His infinite knowledge and wisdom, universal dominion, everlasting faithfulness, infinite purity, inflexible justice, and so on. Now, each of these divine attributes is worthy of our highest contemplation and unending admiration.…

Friday, 03 February 2023 05:56

Musings after 48 hours with Raila Odinga - Azu Ishiekwene

At first, he appeared to be the most unlikely candidate for the task. After his fifth attempt at running for Kenya’s presidency, surely Raila Odinga is finished, done. The only thing left perhaps was how to update his memoirs. But who needs nuggets from a loser who couldn’t put them to use himself? These were the thoughts that weighed on our minds as we thought of inviting former Kenyan Prime Minister and freshly defeated candidate of the Orange Democratic Movement, Raila Odinga, to the 14th edition of the LEADERSHIP annual conference and awards. It’s also interesting that since he narrowly…

Thursday, 02 February 2023 05:45

Don’t buy Tinubu’s parasitism - Abimbola Adelakun

Since the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Bola Tinubu made his infamous speech about saboteurs trying to scuttle his election in Ogun State, recently the airwaves have been agog with conspiracy theories. Of course, he did not name anyone but he gave speculators enough homework when he lamented that the protracted fuel crisis and the ongoing Naira redesign exercise were contrived to frustrate him. Nigerians that get excited by conspiracies have spilled a lot of ink trying to determine the nature of the rift between him and incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari. Yet, when you really look at his jeremiad closely…

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