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Sunday, 06 April 2025 04:39

Boss, I’m busy - Niran Olatona

Yesterday, I was summoned to the multi-billion Naira construction site of the Ekiti State Internal Revenue House by the contractor, who breathlessly informed me that VIPs were en route to inspect the project. After reviewing the progress, we stood like sentinels at Jesus' tomb, waiting for the VIPs. Time ticked on, and as our legs grew weary, the site supervisor — a man pushing 70 — politely asked a young artisan, likely in his late twenties, to fetch three chairs for us to rest. What followed left us stunned like an immaculately dressed party who had just been baptised with…

Sunday, 06 April 2025 04:32

Anointed for good deeds - Taiwo Akinola

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor …. and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised ~ Luke 4:18. Introduction: Touching lives with the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ sometimes looks very easy, but it is not always so. You definitely need Someone bigger than you — the Holy Spirit Himself — to excel in the spiritual arts of doing good and touching other lives for God on earth! Quite unfortunately, many people remain oblivious of this…

Sunday, 06 April 2025 04:31

Article of Faith: Christian rock stars and superstars - Femi Aribisala

Churches now do telemarketing surveys, asking: “What would you like in a church?” In effect, many churches are made to measure, according to the greatest demand and not according to God’s prescriptions. Some pastors even go further and play it safe. They have surveys asking our members what kind of messages they would like to hear. This is a standard operating procedure in the world of business marketing. You find out what your potential customers want, and you give it to them. But it is inappropriate for the kingdom of God, which is based on the will of our Father…

Friday, 04 April 2025 04:21

When are you going to get a proper job? - Azu Ishiekwene

He didn’t say when his father asked him, but I wonder what the old man must think in his grave. Jonathan Power is now 83 and arguably one of Europe’s most widely published columnists. He was a young freelance journalist when his father asked him the question. Still, even if he had lived to see his son syndicated globally, including by some of the world’s most prestigious newspapers and magazines, I’m not sure his father would have retracted the question: when will you get a proper job? Power’s father didn’t think of journalism as a job. Instead, he considered it…

Thursday, 03 April 2025 02:44

Uromi: Matching injustice for injustice - Abimbola Adelakun

Years ago, I had an unforgettable experience of nearly witnessing a lynching at Iwo Road in Ibadan. It was a typical day, and while standing at a bus stop, a woman two paces away suddenly shouted that her purse had been snatched. She held the clothes of the man standing beside her. Before you knew it, the place had transformed. A crowd quickly gathered around, many of them young men who seemed to have magically sprouted from thin air. From ordinary guys going about their lives, they instantly transmuted into the judiciary and were ready to execute a self-designated mandate.…

Monday, 31 March 2025 04:49

Sunday Jackson: A victim of a miscarriage of justice - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Numan, the town that lends its name to one of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State in north-east Nigeria, is home to the Bwatiye (Bachama), a transnational identity group stretching into parts of Cameroon. Located in the basin of Benue River and one of its tributaries, River Taraba, Numan’s fecund lands play host to vast energies in sedentary agriculture. Fulbe pastoralists have for long also found it welcoming for grazing their herds. These factors have made Numan a major frontier in the murderous livelihood conflict that has pitted sedentary farmers against armed pastoralists in the Middle Belt of…

Sunday, 30 March 2025 04:51

How to attract, obtain and retain the wisdom of God - Taiwo Akinola

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air ~ Job 28:20-21. Preamble: Times come when we are faced with tough decisions that could eventually define some important details of our future in our family life, career, ministry, business, etcetera. If we get it right in such instances, we could be reaching forth to stardom, but if we get it wrong, the consequences might be catastrophic. The bottom line is that real life isn't always straight-jacketed, and we must…

Friday, 28 March 2025 04:05

The debt noose: Why does Africa remain trapped? - Moussa Ibrahim

In late February 2025, a group of former African heads of state and finance experts gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, to sign the Cape Town Declaration – a bold call for a comprehensive debt relief program for African nations. This initiative, led by the African Leaders Debt Relief Initiative (ALDRI), comes at a time when Africa’s economy is shackled by a debt burden that is suffocating development, forcing governments to prioritize repayments to Western and private creditors over essential services like education, healthcare, and infrastructure. The numbers are staggering. As of 2021, Africa’s external debt had skyrocketed to $824…

Thursday, 27 March 2025 04:37

Soyinka does not need to criticise Tinubu - Abimbola Adelakun

During an interview on Channels TV on Monday, Wole Soyinka responded to critics who have been taunting him to “say something” about the present administration. In the interview, he said, “People should stop trying to work on my timetable for me. I had not swallowed an alarm clock. I don’t see why I should put my alarm on and say: ‘One year has passed, now, I must make an assessment’ if there is nothing I feel like talking about and if I am busy elsewhere.” Following his earlier statement when he visited Bola Tinubu at Aso Rock in 2023, that…

Wednesday, 26 March 2025 04:38

Of Bayero, Agim, Wike and UNICAL convocation: A response - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

As part of its golden jubilee, the University of Calabar is said to have held a special convocation ceremony on Saturday, 22 March, during which it handed out honours to all manners of persons. The Chancellor of the University is Aminu Ado Bayero, the deposed emir of Kano. Present at that event also were Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria’s most prolific political litigant; as well as Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim, a senior Justice of the Supreme Court, who delivered the leading decision in the recent judgment of that court concerning the withholding of the federal…

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Tuesday, 25 March 2025 04:37

Ndukuba’s mid-term primacy: A transformative five-year journey - Folu Olamiti

As we celebrate five years of the impactful leadership of the Most Reverend Henry Chukudum Ndukuba at the helm of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), it is fitting to reflect on a remarkable tenure that has revitalized the Church and inspired countless lives across the nation and beyond. His journey to the apex of the Church began on March 20, 2020, amid the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. What could have been a moment of despair turned into an opportunity for divine intervention as he assumed office in a low-key presentation service at the Cathedral Church of the…

Monday, 24 March 2025 04:07

In Rivers State, a republic of anomaly renews its methods - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration in 1919, Frederick Lugard described Nigeria as an “anomaly…. of a country with aggregate revenue practically equal to its needs, but divided into two by an arbitrary line of latitude.” While one portion was fiscally viable, he suggested, the other “was dependent on a grant paid by the British taxpayer.” Through the Amalgamation in 1914, Lugard created a Customs Union in which extraction could be sustained by administering mechanisms of fiscal…

Sunday, 23 March 2025 04:39

Nigeria is down to one and a quarter arms of government - Solana Olumhense

If you are reading this, you probably know that I am a Bola Tinubu objector. I object to the Nigerian leader not principally on account of his politics or even his policies, but because we do not know who he really is. Even what we know about who he says he is, where he has been and what he has done are full of holes from Tinubu Square to Chicago, and back. That said, I am not automatically opposed to his emergency declaration on Rivers State last week. Every leader, including fathers and husbands, overreaches or makes mistakes. Maybe this…

Sunday, 23 March 2025 04:35

Riding in God’s honour and excellent majesty - Taiwo Akinola

At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me ~ Daniel 4:36. Preamble: Seeking the face of our great God and King affectionately is always a wise thing to do, even as we respectfully dine and wine in His court (Psalms 105:4). One very special thing about this is that we may thereby attract the great honour and the excellent majesty in His…

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