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Tuesday, 19 July 2022 06:54

Osun as a predictor of presidential elections - Farooq Kperogi

Since 2014, Osun State has emerged as Nigeria’s bellwether state, as Americans call states whose voting patterns almost always align with the winning presidential ticket. APC’s victory in Osun in 2014, in spite of the intense, all-out PDP-controlled federal effort to swing the election in PDP's favor, presaged APC’s odds-defying victory in the 2015 presidential election. In 2018, PDP’s Ademola Adeleke didn’t lose the 2018 governorship election in Osun; APC stole it from him using what no less a person than Buhari himself admitted was “remote control,” which was his euphemism for rigging. Since there was no consequence for the…

Monday, 18 July 2022 06:53

Brut’alaye the butcher of Mali - Aba Saheed

I dream a lot and messages in my dreams usually come to pass. In fact my grandmother who passed on during the Plague of 1917 told me I used to relate messages of my dreams to her. My mother who passed on in 2013 confirmed the same gift when she told me that I used to dream even when I was in her womb. Anybody in doubt could cross check with my grandmother at her resting place which I may not be able to locate since she died 105 years ago but my mother’s resting place is Tomb 595, Row…

Monday, 18 July 2022 06:51

Akeredolu: Crocodile tears, scaremongering or crying wolf? - Bola Bolawole

Penultimate Friday, Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu was quoted as raising the alarm that terrorists were trooping down South from the North. As volatile and scary as the statement was, the governor said nothing new. That the entire Southwest, and not Akeredolu’s Ondo State alone, has been infiltrated and surrounded by terrorists and jihadists is generally well-known or, better still, such news have been in the public domain for years now, and it has been credited to credible sources such as the United Nations and world powers such as the United States of America. Being a sitting governor with access, we believe,…

Monday, 18 July 2022 06:49

Nigeria, oh our Nigeria - Hassan Gimba

I must confess that the above title was inspired by Eric Donaldson's song, 'Land of My Birth', from his hit reggae album, Kent Village, released in 1978. Some years ago, the song was voted winner of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's "All-Time Best." Eric Donaldson, 75, was born after Jamaica's Great Depression of 1930, which took a heavy toll on the country. Strikes and riots, most times messy and bloody, were commonplace. Inequality and injustice were the order of the day. These two were like the fertile soil and water that made crime fester. It was a hot socio-political environment,…

Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:49

Kashim Shettima and the fury of Christianity - Festus Adedayo

Two anecdotes of the extreme reaction of scorned women will avail you if you are looking for a corollary to Nigerian Christendom’s tempestuous anger at the choice of Kashim Shettima. Shettima, a Muslim and former governor of Borno State, was recently chosen as Vice Presidential candidate to Bola Tinubu, a Muslim presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In traditional Africa which celebrates centuries of polygamy, incidences of husband-wives tension, confrontations, jealousy and bitterness have led to destruction of polygynous homes. One of such is Richard Edward Dennett’s anecdotal explanation of the life of Africa through folklores. Dennett, an…

Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:47

Why Peter Obi may become president in 2023 by default - Farooq Kperogi

Facts have uncovered from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) show that Labour Party’s Peter Obi may become Nigeria’s president next year by default because Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, candidates for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively, have violated the Electoral Act 2022, which may cause them to be disqualified if Obi sues them. The Electoral Act 2022 requires political parties to notify INEC of their intent to conduct primary elections at least 21 days before the date of their convention. It also requires parties to submit their membership registers to it at…

Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:45

Flowing in the Messianic anointing - Taiwo Akinola

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about ~ Luke 4:14. Introduction: Many spirit beings, good and bad, inhabit the unseen realm. The good ones are the angels of goodwill, but the bad ones always seek advantage to do maximum damage to God’s people in general (Ephesians 6:12-13). Only Christians who carry a strong anointing of the Holy Spirit are positioned well enough and mightily weaponized sufficiently to mitigate this satanic operation on earth, and are, therefore, God’s relevant agents upon the earth…

Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:43

Article of faith: The new tithing scam from thief and robber pastors - Femi Aribisala

I wrote in 2013 that: “every Pastor who collects tithes is a thief and a robber.” I was roundly excoriated by the thieves and robbers. But it has been a losing battle for them. Jesus says: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32). The psalmist says to God: “The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” (Psalm 119:130). As more and more light has been shed by the light of the world, more and more Christians have been released from the captivity of pastors operating from dens of…

Saturday, 16 July 2022 07:27

The happiest people on earth - Niyi Osundare

We are H-A-P-P-YWe are H-A-P-P-YWe know we areWe are sure we areWe are H-A-P-P-Y Happppppy! I I come from the country Of the Happiest People on earth,Where death sells at ten for one kobo And the Living envy the peace Of the hastily dispatched. Living every day on the edge of the knifeSuffering all night at the mercy of the bullet Taunted and tossed from wall to wall Foodless, drinkless, and faint from fright Lean like a line from the book of pain Hunger has a seat in my little hovel My growling stomach is the devil’s drum I count…

Friday, 15 July 2022 07:13

The battle of the second fiddles - Dare Babarinsa

No one really worries too much about who the Vice-President is until there is trouble with Number One. The Vice-President is often not the second most powerful person in the government of his principal. He gets his position because it is convenient, and politically expedient that he be given the job. After the election and the winner settles into office, the Vice-President is often dispatched into distant lands to go and attend funerals and wave to crowds. When real decisions are to be made, only the President does that. But we have seen since Atiku Abubakar emerged as the Vice-President…

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Friday, 15 July 2022 07:11

Tinubu, Shettima and the Christian vote - Azu Ishiekwene

If the presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu thought a placeholder would be a lightning rod, and maybe soften the blow of his final decision, he has seen by now that he is mistaken. There is a gathering storm. Those who are mad at him are not only upset by his decision on Tuesday, they are doubly upset that it took him five weeks to decide what they always suspected he would do: pick a Muslim running mate to complete what is now Nigeria’s first Muslim-Muslim ticket in nearly 30 years. Why is Tinubu’s choice…

Thursday, 14 July 2022 06:48

Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea

George Monbiot Congratulations to some of Labour’s leading figures, who have begun to discover some 19th-century proposals for political reform. Proportional representation, devolution from the centre, abolition of the House of Lords: a few senior Labour politicians are now taking the daring step of contemplating these “radical” innovations. While I have nothing against 19th-century solutions to our 18th-century government, would it be too much to ask, at the risk of sending these bold pioneers into a dead faint, that they might also start exploring some more recent ideas? Regardless of which creep beats the other creeps to become the next…

Thursday, 14 July 2022 06:46

Nigeria, choose your poison! - Cheta Nwanze

In an ideal situation, a Muslim-Muslim ticket or a Christian-Christian ticket should not be a problem if the two candidates on the ticket are good persons. But having said that, Nigeria is far from ideal, and the current Nigeria is very different from the Nigeria of 1993, when Abiola and Kingibe were clearly heads and shoulders above Tofa and Ugoh. That Nigeria was also a more forgiving place when you consider that the said Sylvester Ugoh was, just over a quarter of a century before, the governor of the Bank of Biafra; but that is a digression. The Nigeria of…

Wednesday, 13 July 2022 05:49

Parliament of eunuchs - Tola Adeniyi

I really don’t know what to call them. We labelled them men without balls, it didn’t bother them. We accused the few women in their midst as being mere decorations and carriers of scents and perfumes to deodorize the legislative chambers, those lipsticked ‘wives and mothers’ merely shrugged their shoulders. We say they are irredeemably corrupt and lacking in character and stature befitting people expected to represent their constituents, they just look the other way as if our words were Greek to their ears. Wikipedia says a eunuch is a man who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served…

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