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Wednesday, 19 March 2025 04:08

How the Global South can rise above the fray as the West fractures - Peter T. C. Chang

US President Donald Trump’s penchant for shaking things up is fracturing the Global North. The Global South must remain steadfast in its commitment to peaceful development and seize this moment to advance a more equitable and just global order. One of the central focuses of last week’s “two sessions”, China’s annual parliamentary meetings, is the increasingly prominent role of private technology companies in driving the country’s development. Indeed, a decade after the launch of the “Made in China 2025” initiative, most of its targets have been achieved, positioning the country as a global technological powerhouse. Through the Digital Silk Road…

Tuesday, 18 March 2025 04:40

Transition from America-dominated World Order - Wale Are Olaitan

It is safe to assume that many are concerned with the diminishing power of the United States of America (US) to keep things together on the international landscape beyond the blustering from President Donald Trump which would be more about pretending that things have not significantly changed. The truth however is that the structures holding the international system together since the end of the Second World War under the supervision and direction of the US are not only becoming less effective, the strains on them over time and the ponderous nature they are made to work now rather than seamlessly…

Monday, 17 March 2025 04:32

Nasir el-Rufai: The bloodlust of a presidential wannabe - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In the week in which former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai abandoned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to chart a different political trajectory with the Social Democratic Party (SDP), his son, Bashir, characteristically made it known that “Southern Kaduna residents will keep seeing sheghe if they continue to attack indigenous Fulani herdsmen.” Three things about this, among many, were chilling. One is the absence of any interest in addressing the underlying problem of coexistence between communities. The second is the enthusiastic investment in violence. The third is the indiscriminate nature of the promised violence. This was not the first…

Sunday, 16 March 2025 04:28

When the Holy Spirit comes - Taiwo Akinola

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him ~ Acts 10:38. Introduction: God is the Constant Helper of His anointed, most especially, when they rely on His power and avail themselves of it. The Omnipotent God defends them, and He constantly exerts every effort in their favour. It is worthy of note that, in spite of all the battles that David fought, his enemies were never able to prevail against him. Rather, he decisively subdued every…

Sunday, 16 March 2025 04:27

Article of Faith: The God who is not good all the time (2) - Femi Aribisala

The law not only discriminated against women, it considered them less valuable than men: “When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord, according to your valuation, if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.” (Leviticus 27:2-4). The rape of virgins was condoned. Moses directed Israel concerning Moab: “Kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman who has…

Sunday, 16 March 2025 04:25

The geography of love: Understanding the intersection of spirit, soul and body - Isaac Megbolugbe

The Geography of Love Love is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been debated and explored by philosophers, theologians, and psychologists for centuries. At its core, love is a fundamental aspect of the human experience, and it is rooted in our relationship with God. As the Bible reminds us, "God is love" (1 John 4:8), and it is this divine love that enables us to love others. In this article, we will explore the geography of love, examining how love operates within the realms of our spirit, soul, and body. We will discuss how a proper understanding of this…

Saturday, 15 March 2025 04:05

The Senate remains in shame as Natasha fights on - Jibrin Ibrahim

On Thursday, senators “overwhelmingly”, or rather, shamelessly, passed a vote of confidence in the Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, despite the sexual harassment allegation levelled against him by Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Nigerians have still not recovered from the shame displayed in how votes are taken in the Senate, as the viral video of the voice vote episode continues to circulate. The Senate president had proposed a motion that after Natasha’s six-months suspension, she would still have to apologise before she might be re-admitted into the Senate. He called for the voice vote and the overwhelming majority said “NAY.” He…

Friday, 14 March 2025 04:37

The thing between Godswill and Natasha - Azu Ishiekwene

Many years ago, when my teacher said nothing sells like sex, crime, and money, I didn’t fully understand what he meant. Yet, over the years, I’ve repeatedly seen that a judicious mix of these socio-economic ingredients is a spellbinder. Apart from the tragic news about banditry, the suspense in Rivers State, and the heightened prostitution amongst politicians crossing carpet or finding new harems, nothing has hugged the headlines as relentlessly as the salacious tango between Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. After weeks of trying to see, hear, and say no evil, I’m compelled to overcome the temptation of…

Thursday, 13 March 2025 04:42

Women too should speak like men - Abimbola Adelakun

In the latest plot twist in the case involving Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, it turned out that the head of the Ethics Committee, Neda Imasuen, who read out the punitive statement against Akpoti-Uduaghan has a soiled professional record. Yes, the man who claimed a woman had to be punished for “bringing the Senate’s presiding office and the entire Senate into public opprobrium” is a walking bag of ethical violations, alleged fraud, and fugitive? Who could have thought? First, I must confess a grudging admiration for Imasuen. It takes chutzpah to speak so self-righteously about a colleague whose…

Wednesday, 12 March 2025 04:34

Europe finally gets the US memo: Pony up and partner in your own defense - Rich Lowry

Europe has been warned, and warned again. Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears — over the Trump administration’s tough words about its deficient military spending and its moves to begin negotiating on its own with Russia over the Ukraine war. In response, French President Emanuel Macron called an emergency summit of European leaders, which his advisers insisted wasn’t an emergency summit at all, but merely a rapidly assembled informal meeting. Whatever the nomenclature, there are signs that Europe is beginning to get the memo — or,…

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Tuesday, 11 March 2025 04:42

IBB: The complexity and limits of power - Wale Are Olaitan

Ordinarily, I would have thought that I could number Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) as one of my elderly friends because of the intellectual engagements we used to have, in company of my bosom friend and brother, Mohammed Kuta Yahaya, especially because of and as he put on display his penchant for deep intellectual forays and the way he appreciated intelligence, if not for his abiding personal wiles making for extreme caution and the inability to ever lay down his guards for you to know when you have truly crossed into his inner circles. The same way it could be said…

Monday, 10 March 2025 04:44

In Rivers State, a supreme iniquity? - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The political control of the resources of the territory known as Rivers State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been a site of curious jurisprudence since the Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate, Harry Johnston, procured the judicial liquidation of King Jaja of Opobo in December 1887 in Accra, present capital of Ghana. The charge against King Jaja was the violation of a treaty obligation to assist the British “in the execution of such duties as may be assigned.” At the end of proceedings, which lasted less than one day, before a forum described by Elvar Ingimundarsson as a “Kangaroo…

Sunday, 09 March 2025 04:29

Ramadan: An obligation that cannot be compelled - Majeed Dahiru

The shutting down of schools on the order of Hisbah (the morality police) in some predominantly Muslim states of northern Nigeria in the month of Ramadan, is a clear indication that Islamism has ascended new heights in the Muslim north. The entrenchment of a range of religiously inspired political ideologies that hold the belief that Islam should influence the socio-political and economic system of public administration (Islamism) in the Muslim north has resulted in the imposition of Sharia laws in the region and establishment of Hisbah to banish vice and enforce virtue. As the Nigerian state is increasingly weakened by…

Sunday, 09 March 2025 04:28

Abounding in fruitfulness and supernatural harvest - Taiwo Akinola

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt ~ Amos 9:13. Introduction: God didn’t plan for us to live just a normal, ordinary, natural life, but a supernatural life of harvests, full of relevance, significance, signs and wonders (John 10:10). Supernatural living is meant to be the norm for the children of God. At a time the people of Israel were in bondage in Egypt, and for about 400 years, it was…

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