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Friday, 11 November 2022 06:42

How not to talk with Africa about climate change - Muhammadu Buhari

Part of my nation is underwater. Seasonal flooding is normal in Nigeria, but not like this. Thirty-four of the country’s 36 states have been affected. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced. Together with drought-driven famine in the Horn of Africa, cascading wildfires across the North and wave upon wave of intensifying cyclones in the South, climate disasters in Africa form the backdrop to this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (known as COP27) in Egypt. Many of my peers are frustrated with Western hypocrisy and its inability to take responsibility. Governments have repeatedly failed to meet their commitments to…

Friday, 11 November 2022 06:41

Will Ghanaian president survive this storm? - Azu Ishiekwene

Not so long ago, he was the poster boy of what looked like an African renaissance. Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo didn’t only know what to say, he also knew when and how. I still remember 2018. Barely one year after Akufo-Addo was inaugurated, he was on the big stage. He was the first African leader to address the National Governors Association (NGA), a cross-party platform of all 50 governors of the United States of America. At that meeting, he laid out his plans and dream to consolidate Ghana’s record as Africa’s gateway and the beginner’s paradise. The same year, he was…

Thursday, 10 November 2022 06:04

It’s time to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table - Charles A. Kupchan

The war in Ukraine is dangerously escalating. Ukraine is advancing on the battlefield and is growing only more determined to expel Russian troops. In the meantime, the Kremlin reinforces its beleaguered forces in eastern Ukraine, pounds Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure, and hints at the possible use of nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies are speeding more weapons to Ukraine, prepared, as the Group of 7 leading democracies recently stated, to “stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes.” Ukraine, with the West’s help, has put up a staunch and inspiring defense of its sovereignty.…

Thursday, 10 November 2022 06:03

It’ll be foolish of Tinubu to attend presidential debates - Abimbola Adelakun

It is understandable why the Labour Party will withhold their presidential candidate from attending debates or similar public forums if his counterparts in the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party do not show up. Appearing at such venues while fellow contestants get to pretend they are busy doing better things can diminish. Why fritter your worth on low-stakes engagements in a society where debates do not necessarily win you an election? Yet, the LP can do better than make Obi’s (dis)appearance a mere reaction to his counterparts. Debate forums are an essential aspect of democratic processes because they are…

Monday, 07 November 2022 06:07

Buhari’s rabid personalization of power - Bola Bolawole

Mother, mother/Why/Why was I born Black? – Okot p’Bitek in “Song of Lawino” As I woke up on Friday morning, lay in bed and performed the routine of prayers, meditation, and introspection, it ministered to me that we die every day but also wake up every day; until, finally, we die one day never to wake up again. Or, if you are a Grail Message person, we die here but awake or wake up to joyful activities on the other side of life or immortality. No one is damn sure what exactly that is or what it will be. Despite…

Monday, 07 November 2022 06:06

Kole Shettima and other patriots deserving of national awards - Hassan Gimba

Citizens who contribute to national development deserve appreciation – President Muhammadu Buhari The above quote by President Muhammadu Buhari captures the idea behind the national honours conferred on some Nigerians by him last month. And each recipient, well, almost all, when placed on the scale of merit, deserved what they got. However, in such national recognitions, in a country of over 200 million, it is impossible to reward all the deserving at a go. This is why it is an event that happens periodically so that those overlooked this year may get it next year or after. While everyone may…

Monday, 07 November 2022 06:05

On Elesin Oba and the romanticisation of culture - Seun Kolade

Let me first say acknowledge that a work of art is effectively a fertile space of multiple interpretations. It is neither a cultural manifesto nor a religious doctrine. The late Biyi Bandele has offered a cinematic representation of Wole Soyinka’s “Death and the King’s Horseman”. You can enjoy the art, like a Shakespearean play, warts and all. Or you can project into it some sort of cultural manifesto. I commend BIyi’s Bandele’s art. His offering scores highly on the picture. Significant efforts went into the costumes, no doubt. The quality of language is another excellent score. A lot of research…

Sunday, 06 November 2022 06:36

The abduction of Pa Reuben Fasoranti - Festus Adedayo

In 1996, his car riddled with bullet holes inflicted by Sani Abacha’s goons aimed at assassinating him, Yoruba Afenifere Leader, Abraham Adesanya, had made a bullseye statement. That statement appeared to explain the raging furore among the leadership of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group today. Adesanya’s father had twenty children. He was the only one initiated into the awo secret cult by the older Adesanya. As such, Adesanya was known to be highly fortified with the powers of his ancestors. It was a time when the demonic Nigerian state under Abacha sought to wipe out any dissent to its infernal rule.…

Sunday, 06 November 2022 06:01

Okon survives a close shave - Tatalo Alamu

For about four days, Okon has been behaving very strangely. He had been spending too much time with himself in his room. When he emerged in the living area, he wore a funereal and gloomy look. Stranger still is the fact that his entire head was covered by a flour sack which he tied grimly around the neck. When snooper asked him what the matter was, Okon would merely hiss only to return to his glum schedule. Snooper at first thought that this was Okon’s way of mourning the demise of the traditional ruler of his ancestral village. But no…

Sunday, 06 November 2022 05:59

The God that answers by fire (2) - Taiwo Akinola

God answers, but what are the questions? Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not ~ Jeremiah 33:2-3. Introduction God continuously invests in our lives and ministers to us so that we can be effective witnesses to His omnipotent power, matchless grace and infinite love (Acts 1:8). Conversely, false idols often use up the time, energy and physio-spiritual resources of their devotees, and leave them depleted. No doubt, the…

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Friday, 04 November 2022 06:13

No matter the assaults on Afenifere, it’ll always survive and prosper - Tola Mobolurin

I think it will be useful if people who are commenting on the Afenifere issues educate themselves. Too many people are jumping into the fray with such pitiful background knowledge that they miss the issues. Now to the contporary issue. I'm not too sure that Ayo Adebanjo ever claimed Afenifere was speaking for all Yoruba. Not all Yoruba are Afenifere. So, what's the issue if others disagree? They can state their disagreement, including those who are members. You don't go and recruit non-members and pose that you are having an Afenifere meeting. That is fraudulent. People were not even invited…

Friday, 04 November 2022 06:11

In search of vaccine for toxic marriages - Azu Ishiekwene

Bad news has almost become a regular feature of Nigeria’s daily narrative and recently, it’s been like a flood of it (pun intended). But the news of the ordeal of two-month-old Miracle Chikwe at the hands of his father in Owerri, Imo State, takes the flood of bad news to the realm of an epidemic. We need to find a moral vaccine — and urgently too. According to press reports, the 31-year-old father, Confidence Amatobi, had beaten the baby with a plastic hanger in the middle of the night for disturbing his sleep. His wife had briefly left the room…

Thursday, 03 November 2022 06:08

Christians in politics: Will Church leaders lead the way? - Bola Bolawole

Circumstances have an uncanny way of radicalising even the most conservative of men – and women. Such a situation is what we are witnessing right now in Nigeria. Many of those leading secessionist moves in the country today would, ordinarily and in normal situations, not do so. Many fire-eating Marxists of yore have become what some derisively call tribal jingoists and ethnic irredentists or chauvinists. Fire-spitting nationalists have retreated into their native or ethnic cocoons. Conservative Christian leaders appear the most hit; the acts of genocide perpetrated by Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen ,and bandits, directed frontally at Christians and the…

Monday, 31 October 2022 06:19

Settle the war in Ukraine before nuclear bombs start flying - SCMP

While Russia is hinting at a nuclear escalation, the United States has stepped up its force posture with the ultimate weapon of war. So while fuelling a proxy war in Ukraine, Washington is modernising its nuclear arsenal in Europe when no ally is being directly threatened. Are we drifting back to 1962 between the two old enemies when the world was on the brink of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban missile crisis? Moscow warned at the weekend that the US was accelerating its deployment of modernised tactical nukes at Nato bases in Europe that were designed for field battles with…

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