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Sunday, 07 August 2022 06:00

My God and my source - Taiwo Akinola

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus ~ Philippians 4:19. Introduction: One of the strongest instruments the devil uses against the Body of Christ today is the yoke of poverty and insufficiency. This is because scarcity and dearth easily serve his battlecry of containment against the Church. And sadly, many believers are totally unaware of this. Scarcity is a strangulating spirit, and it can make life quite unbearable. However, God’s unflinching desire is to amply supply His people with resources from the base of glory in Christ Jesus. This is…

Sunday, 07 August 2022 05:58

Article of faith: Climbing the Mount Everest of eternal life - Femi Aribisala

How badly do we want eternal life? Jesus is walking down the road, and there is this strange man in flowing white agbada running after Him. The man is running like a mad man. He is running and shouting. What could possibly be the matter? But wait a minute. The man running after Jesus is no ordinary man. He is actually the Governor of the Central Bank. He is the one reported by Forbes Magazine to be the one of the richest men in Nigeria. What then is the meaning of this? How can a man of that stature be…

Friday, 05 August 2022 06:56

To solve a problem like Wike, fix Atiku - Azu Ishiekwene

Seven weeks after the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar announced Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate, the man not chosen remains the talk of the town. I’m not sure Abubakar (fondly called Atiku) expected this amount of pushback when he chose Okowa over Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike. But just as it is with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) too, the choice of running mate has become a national obsession, exposing Nigeria’s deepest religious and ethnic fault lines. On the eve of Atiku’s announcement of his running mate when the media was awash…

Thursday, 04 August 2022 06:29

To Michael Awe: A Tribute - Bola Bolawole

My path and Michael Awe's crossed after I was appointed editor of The Punch newspaper in 1992. He was one of the brilliant chaps I head-hunted from other newspaper houses with the sole aim of turning around The PUNCH newspaper and positioning it as the flagship of the Nigerian media. Awe (aka Michael West, his pen name) was employed from The Guardian as one of the assistant editors on the newly-created PUNCH Rewrite Desk. Mike and the others performed excellently well in the assignments given to them. Together with the shift in PUNCH's orientation from entertainment to a more serious,…

Thursday, 04 August 2022 06:25

Why Buhari is more loyal to Niger Republic than Nigeria - Farooq Kperogi

It has come to light that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N1.4 billion from Nigeria's coffers (without the approval of the National Assembly!) to help the Republic of Niger buy vehicles for its government officials to fight insecurity while insecurity engulfs Nigeria and while ASUU is still on strike. Many Nigerians are understandably angry and are asking why Buhari seems to have more loyalty to Niger Republic than he does to Nigeria. Well, here is what I wrote about that in my June 12, 2021, column titled “Making Sense of Buhari’s Nonsense Now Senseless”: Or take his justification for building…

Thursday, 04 August 2022 06:23

Bandits will eventually get to Buhari - Abimbola Adelakun

The condition of insecurity affecting many Nigerians has long surpassed bearable proportions; it is only a matter of time before even our inept president is viscerally touched. Several reports indicate that members of the Nigerian political class also get a bitter taste of the medicine Nigerians have been made to swallow but the peak of it all will still come when even the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is affected. Unless the situation is urgently arrested, it cannot be taken for granted that those who have been trying to breach the president’s security will not eventually find a loophole…

Wednesday, 03 August 2022 04:10

It’s not Muslim-Muslim ticket; it’s Tinubu - Dele Sobowale

That Bola Tinubu opted for a Muslim-Muslim ticket after winning the election primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was not a surprise to me. I expected it; even as I was predicting that he would emerge as the flag-bearer for the APC. Several reasons account for this; but they all come to the same thing. Tinubu is an unrepentant Muslim bigot; as I will explain later fully. So for me, the issue is not Muslim-Muslim, M-M, ticket as such. It is Tinubu at the head of that ticket. In my opinion, he cannot be trusted to be fair to…

Tuesday, 02 August 2022 06:59

Tribute: As Akanni Aluko dances back to his Maker - Peter Aliu

Akanni Aluko a great and reliable friend and confidant, rare to find, lucky to have like a four-leaf clover plant. A Godly man, and a devout catholic by all standards with a pure heart and unbent integrity. A publisher of repute renowned for fairness, truth and good analysis. Close to those in power, Aluko used his influence and affluence to impact on others. Aluko helped raise billionaires as much as he pivoted to the lowly in the society. He regarded kindness as a duty. He was one this generation’s greatest philanthropists who gave back to humanity without holding back. He…

Monday, 01 August 2022 06:33

Fixing a country with destroyed immunity - Hassan Gimba

Not to punish evil is like authorising it – Leonardo da Vinci…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost – Baron de Montesquieu.A kingdom (nation) can endure with unbelief, but it cannot endure with injustice - Sheikh Usman Dan FodioLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci died on 2 May, 1519. He was an Italian with encyclopedic learning. There was no branch of knowledge that he didn’t touch. His achievements, diverse interests, personal life, and empirical thinking always spark interest and admiration, even today.Charles Louis…

Sunday, 31 July 2022 06:20

Governors beware! - Tola Adeniyi

The tactical withdrawal from the National Assembly and subsequent close down of the hallowed Chambers was a smart move by the senators and members of the House of Representatives to escape possible attack by the rampaging terrorists who are firmly in control of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The Buhari one-man Dictatorship in Abuja has had to shut down public and private schools in the Federal Capital Territory and its environs following the unprecedented assault on Kuje Maximum prison in Abuja which led to the escape of over 600 fiercest criminals in the correctional centre and the brazen attack on…

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Sunday, 31 July 2022 06:18

The hour is nigh as dusk descends - Tatalo Alamu

Somehow, the feeling that it is approaching some end-time is irresistible these days. A fin de siècle is in the air. It is the last sigh of the marabou. You sometimes wake up in panic and then you wonder why you are panicking. You know something will definitely go wrong. But you don’t know what or when. There is an apocalyptic foreboding abroad. To add to the surreal absurdist turn of events, it has been given out that the master of the house has taken to lecturing on security abroad while security at home has given up the ghost. This…

Sunday, 31 July 2022 06:17

Can we get Buhari to resign? Today! - Festus Adedayo

Now that the wise, prudent, babes and suckling have come to the grueling realization that Nigeria is gradually coming to a deadly repose under President Muhammadu Buhari, it is nice seeing everyone in frenzied scampering. Legislators in Abuja, like vipers stirred off their places of comfort, are spitting venom. Political elite, seeing from afar the impending expiry of their inordinate suck of the Nigerian nectar, are confused and disconcerted. Abuja, their nest of filch, is becoming too hot for comfort. Same Abuja is also fast assuming the violent notoriety of Afghanistan and Tel Aviv. Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists, coming in…

Sunday, 31 July 2022 06:16

Operating in the power of the Holy Spirit - Taiwo Akinola

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth ~ Acts 1:8. Introduction: Power is a special, peculiar and distinctive prerogative of God (Psalm 62:11). Nothing moves except as God directs. Nothing happens except as He permits, and nothing can be except as He allows. Our God is the Almighty, and only He rules in the affairs of nations (Psalms 103:19; Daniel 4:17). Contrarily, man remains human, no matter the…

Sunday, 31 July 2022 06:14

Article of faith: The thief in the night - Femi Aribisala

Our God is a God of miracles. But sometimes He chooses to heal. Miracles are instantaneous: But healing is a process. Miracles are clinical, but healing is relational. With healing, we get to know the Doctor. We experience His loving-kindness. We realise He is a comforter. We then know we have a High Priest who is deeply touched by the feeling of our infirmities. When we are afflicted, the Lord is afflicted as well. He bears our griefs and carries our sorrows. If we understand that the purpose of life is to know God, then whatever it takes to know…

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