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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…

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…

Monday, 10 October 2022 05:53

Security implications of ASUU strikes - Hassan Gimba

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was founded in 1978. Its predecessor, the Nigerian Association of University Teachers (NAUT), was formed in 1965 covering academic staff at the University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, University of Ife and University of Lagos. According to its founders, ASUU is a trade union whose objectives include regulation of relations between academic staff and employers, encouraging the participation of its members in the affairs of the university system and the nation, and protecting and advancing the socio-economic and cultural interests of the nation. It is supposed to be…

Sunday, 09 October 2022 05:33

The Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta at Obajana - Festus Adedayo

Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, is facing one of its worst disasters ever. Four persons, which included a three-year-old baby, according to press report, were swept away to their deaths last week by a flood which broke its barriers. Ibaji Local Government Area of the state is the worst hit by a flood that broke the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers coursing through Lokoja. Travelers passing through the 196-kilometre-Lokoja-Abuja highway which connects the North and South got stranded and the road literally cut off. The Niger and Benue rivers had broken their banks, resulting in a flood…

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Sunday, 09 October 2022 05:31

Nurturing the spirit of excellence - Taiwo Akinola

Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm ~ Daniel 6:3. Introduction: The development of excellence is not a day’s job. To get ahead with excellence, you must start with a dream and pursue it with courage. Therein lies the spirit that sets the preference, making the difference and causing men to excel in life (Daniel 5:10-12; 6:1-3). Commitment is the regular price of excellence. Many people today have unwittingly accepted the durable myth that the potential to excel in…

Sunday, 09 October 2022 05:30

Article of faith: Prayer for Nigeria at 62 - Femi Aribisala

Arugbo ojo. (Ancient of Days). Alewilese (He who speaks and acts). Alese lewi (He who acts and speaks). Awimayehun (He who cannot be contradicted). Adanimagbagbe (The Creator who never forgets His creation). Oyigiyigi (Great and Mighty God). Alagbada Ina (The God covered with fire). Afunni ma s’iregun (The God who blesses without asking for a reward). Alagbawi eda (defender of mankind). Olowogbogboro (The one whose hand can reach everywhere). Ajasegun (The Conqueror). Oba t’ao ri, sugbon t’a ri ise owo re (The God who is unseen, but whose works are evident). Atererekariaye (The God who covers the whole earth). Onise…

Saturday, 08 October 2022 10:34

Still on Ukraine - Femi Mimiko

My piece, “This is not a bluff,” published October 5, 2022, has elicited a lot of comments, on this platform and elsewhere. I try here to do a response, in outline form, with a few rhetorical questions. The multiple issues raised on the writeup, and addressed here, are of course, not taken in any particular order. The hope is that this approach does not undercut the logic of the presentation. Now, let us admit without conceding, the claim by many pundits in the West, echoed here at home, that Putin is delusional. How does an intelligent person handle a delusional…

Saturday, 08 October 2022 06:22

Putin and M.B.S. are laughing at us - Thomas L. Friedman

Wars bring together surprising alliances. Today, we have America and its NATO allies backing the brave Ukrainians fighting to save their country from being torn to shreds by Vladimir Putin. And we have Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bernie Sanders, the House progressive caucus and the whole G.O.P. all working — deliberately or because they are dupes — to ensure that Putin has more oil revenue than ever to kill Ukrainians and freeze the Europeans this winter until they abandon Kyiv. In another dark corner, Putin and Saudi de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are also probably hoping that…

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