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Sunday, 23 October 2022 06:43

Attracting unfailing help at desperate times - Taiwo Akinola

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies ~ Psalms 108:12-13. Introduction Man cannot do any piece of useful work, small or great, without energy. Energy is the ability required to get works done. The potential energy stored within us is what produces the outward kinetic energy we see in all our functional operations on earth. However, times come in life when it appears as if all hope is gone, and the situations in which we find ourselves look so…

Friday, 21 October 2022 06:11

A professor’s pay-slip and lessons from ASUU strike - Azu Ishiekwene

After eight months’ strike, one of the longest in the country’s history, university teachers finally returned, at gunpoint, to the classrooms on Monday. It was the 16th time university teachers would be striking in 23 years. Frustrated parents and distraught students just couldn’t wait to hear that the strike had been suspended and schools reopened. It does appear, however, that if all we’re interested in is to tick the box, it won’t be long before we’re back to square one. There is a clear and present danger that we’re kicking the can, with the teachers, down the road. And this…

Friday, 21 October 2022 06:10

In Kogi, it is raining wahala - Dare Babarinsa

It is good and commendable that after many weeks of hesitation, the Federal Government decided to intervene in the dispute between the Kogi State Government and Dangote Industries Plc over the ownership of the Dangote Cement Factory in Obajana, Kogi State. Since Dangote opened the cement plant in Obajana in 2002, that town has never slept until Governor Yahaya Bello intervened and tried to put the town to sleep. Anytime you get there, no matter the hour of the day or night, the industrial town is always awake. I am sure that even from space, that plant, occupying more than…

Thursday, 20 October 2022 06:16

Is the US better prepared for a nuclear blast today than it was 60 years ago? - Wilfred Chan

If you look hard enough, you’ll spot faded yellow signs proclaiming “Fallout shelter” around New York City. They are remnants of a cold war program that signaled spaces within ordinary buildings – from schools to banks to the Brooklyn Bridge – with adequate supplies and walls thick enough for riding out a nuclear blast safely. Many of these windowless shelters housed little more than rats and sewage before the practice was terminated in 1979. In 2017, the city’s department of education ordered the “misleading” signs removed from its buildings, but many others remain – vestiges of nuclear fears that never…

Thursday, 20 October 2022 06:15

ASUU strike: Gainers and losers (2) - Bola Bolawole

Biodun Oyebanji, the mint-fresh governor of Ekiti state, was quoted on Monday, after taking office from his immediate predecessor and god-father, Kayode Fayemi, as saying he has “handed Ekiti over to God”. Pray, in whose hand was Ekiti before now - Satan’s? How time flies and nothing lasts forever – good or bad! It looked like yesterday when Fayemi, leveraging on Federal might, elbowed Olusola Eleka of the PDP out of the way to grab the Ekiti governor’s seat. But it’s all over now! Four years, which seemed like eternity, have come to an end and Fayemi is today ex-Governor…

Wednesday, 19 October 2022 06:15

Tola Adeniyi: Rewarding the silent screams - Dupe Olaoye-Osinkolu

Dateline: October 14, 2022. The innovational literary actor and producer moved away from his regular stage (the desk) from which his props (pen and computer) have created many interesting characters in colorful costumes, worthy of viewing over the years. He then moved temporarily to a larger and more open stage where a 'Stage Manager' paid homage to him on the stage by prostrating in greetings; an agelong way of respecting elders by the Yoruba people of Southwest Nigeria. Even if the 'golden fish' literary high-flier actor had thought he could hide from such performance, the stage manager proved him wrong…

Wednesday, 19 October 2022 06:12

Oloyede, Marwa: Another feather to their cap - Bola Bolawole

JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, and Chairman of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mohamed Buba Marwa, were two of the hundreds of Nigerians honoured last week by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Marwa was awarded the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON). The complaint of many was that Marwa deserved more than that and that the second highest award of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) would have been more befitting. His exploits as the executive Chairman of the NDLEA are the reasons…

Monday, 17 October 2022 06:08

And what’s so special about Switzerland, anyway? - Hassan Gimba

I had wanted to write about the awards conferred on deserving – and not so deserving - individuals on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari. I thought I would be reading it today in Geneva, Switzerland. I should have been in Geneva, today, attending the 2022 World Cancer Congress organised by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) taking place from the 18th to the 20th of this month. I was not going to the congress as a journalist covering an international event. No. I was going there as a delegate from Nigeria because I founded a foundation - Lami Fatima…

Sunday, 16 October 2022 05:52

Baba Lekki turns the table on one chance boys - Tatalo Alamu

In the darkest entrails of the sprawling megacity, a cannibal ethos prevails. You either kill or you get killed. It is as simple as that. Autochthon savages from outlying primitive enclaves and the last redoubts of Early Man in Africa finally overran the famed metropolis. Despite the bravest efforts of the law enforcement agencies, they held sway in the swampy outreach of the beleaguered city from where they spread their reign of primitive terror via the inner ghettoes to the glittering landmarks of African modernity. But help is finally on the way from traditional quarters. Where modern policing falters, African…

Sunday, 16 October 2022 05:50

Death of workplace religion: The Polaris Bank mis-example - Festus Adedayo

A letter was found in 2006 in the room of a Nigerian drug leader after his apprehension in Thailand. The note had read: “Almighty God in Heaven, I have the right to be rich. I have the right to be a millionaire and no country has the right to pass laws that interfere with my reaching my goal of being rich. Any laws that are designed to keep me from this goal are illegitimate.” Stephen Elis, the late British historian and author of an expose on the history of Nigerian corruption roulette, This Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized…

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Sunday, 16 October 2022 05:48

Standing on the promises of God - Taiwo Akinola

Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant ~ 1 Kings 8:56. Introduction: The Bible is replete with great and precious prophetic promises, which cover all aspects of the human life (2 Peter 1:3). These promises come in various formats. Some are spiritually coded and require spiritual eyes to decipher them, while some others are just plain and simple enough to personalize. Anyhow, there is always the need to…

Sunday, 16 October 2022 05:47

Article of faith: The strange ways of God - Femi Aribisala

When we come to Christ, we must forsake not only our ways but also our thoughts. Isaiah says: “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:7).We must also jettison the traditions of men. Jesus berated the Pharisees for teaching: “Man-made laws instead of those from God.” (Matthew 15:9). God says: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9). Therefore, child of God, forget your logic,…

Friday, 14 October 2022 05:34

Pathetic stories washed up by floods - Azu Ishiekwene

Back in the day, weather forecasts were a joke. And I mean literally. The weather forecast segment which used to come at the end of the news bulletin on Nigeria’s national broadcaster, NTA, was the butt of cruel jokes amongst folks. Often when the forecasters said it would rain, we said they meant the opposite. Seven out of 10 times, we were right; and the other three times, it drizzled on one side of the street and was stone dry on the other. That was in the early 1970s and 1980s when either as a result of poor predictive tools,…

Thursday, 13 October 2022 06:18

ASUU strike: Gainers and losers (1) - Bola Bolawole

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has given hope that the eight-month-old strike action by his members may soon come to an end – whether gloriously or ingloriously, I must add! The intervention of the House of Representatives, led by its speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, must have broken the ice so much so that Osodeke could confidently announce that he (interpreted, ASUU?) has sighted light at the end of the tunnel: After eight wasted months, which is like three academic semesters! My son, who is in the first semester of Part Three at the Obafemi Awolowo…

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