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Sunday, 28 May 2023 04:16

Article of faith: Jesus is a slave trader (1) - Femi Aribisala

I wrote in my new book, Kingdom Dynamics: The Day of My Death, that Jesus saved my life and then took my life. He saved me because He wanted to kill me. As a result, my Saviour became my adversary and killer. That is kingdom dynamics. Similarly, Jesus frees slaves from bondage and then enslaves them Himself. Indeed, the greatest slave trader of all is Jesus Christ. If Jesus enslaves you and you try to escape, you are going to get into trouble. Enslaved Jews When the king who did not know Joseph became Pharaoh in Egypt, the Jews became…

Saturday, 27 May 2023 04:30

Money isn’t real - Emily Guy Birken

Here’s how a change in perspective can help relieve financial stress and allow you to address life’s more fundamental problems. When you think about it, the entire concept of money is pretty bizarre. Governments produce paper bills and metal disks adorned with pictures of deceased leaders—and their citizens center their lives around the getting, keeping, and using of these objects. What’s more, the paper and metal objects themselves are not even necessary these days, as our money is more likely to be numbers on a screen that we spend by clicking buttons or tapping cards. It’s almost like the whole…

Friday, 26 May 2023 04:33

On eve of transition, Nigerian chef cooks up a storm - Azu Ishiekwene

After weeks of being at daggers drawn over the results of the last general elections and with only days to the inauguration of a new government on May 29, one of Nigeria’s three biggest pastimes – food – appears to be bringing people together again. On a good day, the country swoons over football or music. In the last two weeks, however, Nigerians up and down the food chain have been flocking to the pot of 27-year-old Hilda Bassey Effiong, fondly called Hilda Baci, who is on the verge of confirmation as the new holder of the Guinness World Records …

Thursday, 25 May 2023 04:13

Handover: Bye-bye to játijàti - Abimbola Adelakun

Even the most ardent supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari must be happy to see him pack his nuisance and return to Daura (or Niger, wherever) come Monday. If there is a regime in this world on which the sun cannot set fast enough, it is Buhari’s. He rode into the presidency in 2015 with his babariga pockets filled with tokens of goodwill and high expectations of renewal. Eight years later, he had bankrupted everything with his sadism and indolence. He came into power in a blaze of glory but his departure will be accompanied with deep sighs of “good riddance.”…

Tuesday, 23 May 2023 03:48

‘Colo-mentality’ as bane of Yoruba-Igbo South and Middlebelt original African existence - Justice J. Faloye

We have been made to believe everything foreign is better than ours. The 'White is Right' Colonial Mentality which is aptly known as Coloniality of the Self/Being. In addition to the high rate of bleaching, there is a deep-seated racial inferiority complex that affects the quality and length of our lives, from our foods, architecture, dressing, religion, medicine, family organization, work ethics, employment practices and social responsibility. Our worldviews have been so warped that even if God dropped a first class industrialized economy or democratic system on our laps, we might not patronize it, or even sabotage it. There are…

Tuesday, 23 May 2023 03:47

I was adopted from China. People ask if I feel 'lucky' — and my answer isn't what they expect - Iris Anderson

The first time I was in China, I became one of her lost girls. As I was taken from my birth mother’s arms and placed at a nearby train station, I became a statistic ―another baby uprooted by the country’s one-child policy. At 11 months old, I was plucked from China’s embrace and placed into that of my parents. My roots began to grow in the soil of a different land. When I was old enough to comprehend the gravity of my truth, my parents sat me down and told me that I had been adopted from China. This supposed…

Monday, 22 May 2023 04:29

Trump was right: 'Russian collusion' was a hoax. Good luck regaining public's trust - Ingrid Jacques

After four years, we finally have the full 316-page report from Justice Department special counsel John Durham, and it’s a damning indictment of some of our country’s leading institutions. Durham said the FBI should have never launched an investigation into alleged Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, given the slim evidence. That is a huge win for Trump, who has for years called out his unfair treatment by the FBI – and a media all too willing to find blame in the former president’s actions. The investigation into the "collusion" clouded Trump’s entire presidency, and Democrats harnessed the tale…

Monday, 22 May 2023 04:28

10th NASS leadership and the burden of morality - Hassan Gimba

In the system of governance we practise, there are three arms – the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The Legislature is said to be the first among the three. The arms are characterised by the principle of separation of powers as each is supposed to be independent of the other. The doctrine of separation of powers was first formulated by one of the most important 18th Century political scientists, the French political philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu, in his work De l'esprit des lois, or ‘The Spirit of the Laws’ (1748), which states that “There can be no liberty where the legislative…

Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:29

Lamidi Apapa’s missing cap - Festus Adedayo

Turbulent anger of Obidients landed on Lamidi Apapa last week. By the time their anger petered out, Apapa had lost his cap to a God-knows-who. Esu Elegbara, the trickster deity of the Yoruba people, it will seem, lives in caps. Though most of the exploits of Esu exist in myths, Yoruba constructed a pantheon of beliefs that implicate the Esu as divisive and full of tricks. One of such, sauced in mythology, was translated into a very sobering track by ace Yoruba Awurebe musician, Dauda Akanmu Adeeyo, popularly known as Dauda Epo Akara. Famous for his anecdotal offerings affixed to…

Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:28

Fulfilling destiny together in godly marital unions - Taiwo Akinola

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war ~ Proverbs 20:18. Introduction Starting right, going great and finishing excellently is God’s plan for every marital union. Nevertheless, the holy union can be fulfilling only when and where God's purposes are fully tracked, clearly understood and lovingly embraced. Every marital union established on earth is assigned to a clear agenda from heaven, and in order to excel in it, couples must choose never to settle for ordinary relationships, but rather strive to glorify God through a kingdom-focused togetherness, till the end of time. In normal godly Christian…

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Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:27

Article of faith: Do you want to go to heaven? - Femi Aribisala

As a young believer, the Holy Spirit told me something that shattered me. He said heaven is not for me. “There is no food in heaven. There is no sex in heaven. None of the material possessions you crave is in heaven. What would you want to do in such a boring place?” He asked. The truth of the matter is that Christians are not interested in heaven. The earth is where all our treasures are in. Jesus asked a man sick for 38 years if he would like to be made whole. Would you believe the man did not…

Saturday, 20 May 2023 04:18

The flaws of perfection - Warren Zanes

I was in the car with my sons, listening to the Beach Boys. I picked some of my favorite songs: “Wendy,” “Girl Don’t Tell Me,” “Let Him Run Wild.” But when I played another track I love, “Wild Honey,” the boys cocked their heads. “Why did they put that out?” one of them asked. The lead vocal sounded wrong to him. Fair enough. Something was off. Carl Wilson’s performance on that song is not a typical Beach Boys lead vocal. You can hear him reaching for notes, at times barely getting there. There’s vocal strain, unmistakable pitch imperfections. But the…

Friday, 19 May 2023 04:58

What should Tinubu do about the Assembly? - Azu Ishiekwene

Two presidents in the last 24 years provide interesting examples of how to relate with the National Assembly. And between the two, the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, can decide how to model his relationship with the 10th National Assembly. The first example is President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was not only head of the executive branch, he was leader of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the de facto head of its Board of Trustees. But it didn’t end there. Obasanjo was also, in a manner of speaking, head of the legislature. That may sound like a misnomer in…

Thursday, 18 May 2023 04:08

Seun Kuti should have listened to his father - Abimbola Adelakun

Fela Kuti’s 1976 album, Ikoyi Blindness, featured a track documenting an encounter within Nigerian social context where violence is trite. The song, Gba mi leti ki n dolowo (slap me make I get money), is an encounter between an “Oga,” the quintessential big man who personifies the impunity of power, and an unnamed person who represents the disempowered masses. In the song, Oga reaches out to slap the Unnamed’s face. Rather than quake before Oga’s almighty power, Unnamed stands up to him. He taunts Oga to hit him saying the “systems of government in Africa” would arise on his behalf…

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