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Sunday, 08 January 2023 06:03

Multiple murders so cruel and this evil world - Festus Adedayo

The murders of Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye, a few hours after the new year, have made me pensive and downcast since the news broke. That dastardly murder is one event of 2023 that throws me into spasms whenever my mind reflects on it. Unable to reconcile the gravity of this evil with the aesthetic beauty of life as God’s creation, this murder made me dust up my handbooks on the philosophy of evil and wickedness. I wanted a clue as to why this horror happened and why our world’s most fitting alias is wickedness and cruelty. The Fatinoyes were killed…

Sunday, 08 January 2023 06:01

New year, new beginnings! - Taiwo Akinola

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning ~ Psalms 30:5. Introduction One of the amazing things God has given to us as human beings is the unquenchable desire for a better life. However, we must realize that a better foundation is quintessential to a blissful life. We must build into the beginning of this year what we hope to experience in it, carefully putting into its foundation a strong and virile structure of wisdom. Of a truth, in our society today, only a…

Sunday, 08 January 2023 06:00

Article of faith: Daylight robbery in the churches - Femi Aribisala

Jesus says: “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” (Mark 11:17). The churches, today’s so-called houses of God, are veritable dens of robbers. Their kingpins are their highfalutin pastors and bishops. These men and women specialise in hypnotising unsuspecting Christians to rob them of their hard-earned monies. Be warned! They plan to steal from you in a big way this January. Law and Grace Under Moses, God instituted the law of “first fruits.” This was part of the support system established for…

Sunday, 08 January 2023 05:59

Aging is a problem even science cannot solve (yet) - Daniela J. Lamas

When ‌‌doctors talk about patients in the hospital, we so often begin with age. A 75-year-old man with shortness of breath. A 30-year-old woman with joint swelling. Knowing our patient’s age allows us to focus on the most likely diagnoses and to develop a mental image of the patient before we enter the room. But it also serves another purpose. ‌Doctors find ourselves using age to frame the patient’s story and in effect to grade its degree of tragedy. A college student dying from respiratory failure after the flu is unacceptable, an end we must fight against with all that…

Friday, 06 January 2023 05:46

The Trouble with Obasanjo’s wish - Azu Ishiekwene

I’m sure he expected the firestorm. As is his custom, he primed and released it to explode at his own time and season. If the letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsing Labour Party’s Peter Obi had gone unnoticed, uncriticised, and un-replied, then it would not have been Obasanjo’s letter. The letter had barely landed when the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and, in fact, the Presidency all pounced, with the mildest of them all from the PDP. Whatever the misgivings of the affected parties, I’m sure most might agree on the central message:…

Thursday, 05 January 2023 05:55

‘To be a disabled Nigerian is a lonely, scary and isolated place’ - Debola Daniel

Debola, one of the sons of ex-governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, has expressed concern over neglect of physically challenged Nigerians. He said being a disabled person in Nigeria is lonely and scary, adding that when planning for major events, people like him are never put into consideration. In a Twitter thread, Debola said even with government infrastructures, the plight of physically challenged persons is never put into consideration. He wrote, “To be a disabled Nigerian is a lonely, scary and isolated place. I have often struggled to articulate my Nigerian experience in a way people could understand. “There’s never…

Thursday, 05 January 2023 05:52

Of Magun, Babalawos and other stories - Seun Kolade

My father told us the poignant story of his mother, my grandmother, giving birth to 14 children and only two of them survived. The gap between him and his only surviving sibling, my late Uncle, was roughly 10 years. In between them were more deceased siblings that could not survive the first few years of their lives. They were deemed “Abikus”. My grandmother died in her early fifties. Poor woman. She bore the brunt fourteen pregnancies. One is exhausting enough, but what about the emotional trauma of losing 12? As it turned out, those 12 deceased children were most likely…

Wednesday, 04 January 2023 05:52

Dying in the petrol queue - Niyi Osundare

I spent this year’s Christmas At a petro stationSome two miles from my NEPA-less* home And immeasurable distance from sanity The manger was dark When the Wise Men arrivedPious Joseph had no fuel To power the idle generator Hood-to-boot ahead of my own Were over a hundred cars in motionless miseryBehind, in a grotesque sprawl round a bend Was a multitude of metal I dared not count The “Subsidy” Saga was in the air again As it did last season and the seasons before“Appropriate Pricing”, “Landing Costs”, “Loading Fees”, and allied jargon Usurped front pages of the national tabloid Government…

Tuesday, 03 January 2023 05:35

Toyin Falola: 70 as the age of reckoning - Olusegun Obasanjo

My dear professor, brother and friend, Toyin Falola, A big congratulation to you on your 70th birthday today. As someone who had gone ahead of you in chronological time-span, let me welcome you to the septuagenarian circle. I sincerely thank God for granting you the grace and favour to get this far. Getting to this biblical age is not an easy journey. Our existential challenges as humans, and more critically as Nigerians, are many, and even all the more so, for someone like you who shoulders many responsibilities as a scholar, a custodian of culture, an elder in your own…

Tuesday, 03 January 2023 05:33

Factoring Nostradamus into our 2023 plans - Bola Bolawole

This is the period of the year when people make their New Year's resolution, which is usually a wish list of what they would like to achieve in the New Year. This may also include a list of bad things they want far away from them in the New Year. Usually, people want blessings, breakthroughs, favours, victory, accomplishments, destiny fulfilment and such other positive things to be their portion. Evils such as death, sickness or illness, disasters, misfortunes, defeat, bad or ill-luck, losses and setbacks are sent "back to sender" and must be wished as the portion of one's enemies.…

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Monday, 02 January 2023 05:58

Time to prosecute Gudaji Kazaure - Hassan Gimba

It is no longer news that Gudaji Kazaure, a House of Representatives member representing the Kazaure, Roni, Gwiwa and Yankwashi constituency of Jigawa State, has been trending over some papers he made public and a story that sounded like a tale by moonlight. The lawmaker is claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him and some other distinguished Nigerians into a secret committee with the mandate to investigate, reconcile and recover all stamp duties, which he said amounted to N89.09 trillion, realised from deductions by banks but was misappropriated. Neither the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Finance, the…

Sunday, 01 January 2023 05:04

What is new about the New Year 2023? - Festus Adedayo

So, that mythical Nigerian year, 2023, is here at last? For Nigerians, 2023 is not just a year of newness as all years represent for mankind. It is a year with gross implications, political, economic and social. It is a year that is at once dreaded, expected, venerated and which evokes apprehension, as well as a feeling of de ja vu across board. It is a year of consequence to our existence as a people. A year that has been romanticized as the year of the Nigerian becoming, many analysts have even sacralized 2023 as the year that will determine…

Sunday, 01 January 2023 05:02

Toyin Falola at 70: In praise of a mouth sweeter than salt - Abimbola Adelakun

New years and births are promises of a new beginning, which is why I think of those born on 1st of January as special. My imagination of New Year’s Day babies is that they enter the world with cheeky smiles. I believe that somewhere in the pre-world where humans choose their orí and date of birth, some selected 1st of January just so that the good fortunes we pray the supernatural forces would direct our way in the new year get folded into their arrival. If this myth is true — and who can say otherwise? — then it explains…

Sunday, 01 January 2023 05:01

Repositioning yourself for the Lord’s favour In 2023 - Taiwo Akinola

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come ~ Psalms 102:13. Introduction To God be all the glory! We are alive today and beholding the beauties of a brand new year only by God's special grace. Praise ye the Lord! I also thank all our reading audience for being a part of our lives and ministry in the course of the just ended year, loving us, responding to our love and encouraging us one way or the other. God bless you all. No doubt, the just ended year…

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