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Tuesday, 22 November 2022 05:40

How China will achieve hegemony - Carl Bildt

It took US President Joe Biden’s administration quite a while to produce its National Security Strategy, which it finally released in October. Though the White House did issue an interim document in March 2021, the final product seems to have required more work than anticipated. The reason isn’t difficult to understand. While the interim document focused primarily on China and treated Russia more as a regional nuisance, reality intervened with a vengeance in February 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war to “denazify,” “demilitarize,” and essentially eliminate Ukraine. Where the interim strategy had described Russia as “disruptive,” the…

Monday, 21 November 2022 06:06

Tinubu’s cognitive decline - Farooq A. Kperogi

Over the last few days, several video clips of Bola Tinubu’s disturbingly cringeworthy verbal mishaps during speaking engagements have flooded social media platforms and have caused me to wonder if we’re witnessing the real-time mental decline of Nigeria’s leading presidential candidate who could be president next year. Because Tinubu has also been the victim of a well-coordinated blizzard of carefully designed falsehoods in the last few days, I wasn’t sure if the videos I saw were digitally manipulated to undermine him. So, I decided to look up the longer versions of the videos on YouTube on Friday before writing this…

Monday, 21 November 2022 06:05

How not to redesign the naira - Hassan Gimba

Among the reasons given by the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele, for the redesigning of the ₦200, ₦500 and ₦1000 notes is that there is some ₦3.2 trillion in circulation out of which 2.7 trillion is outside the banking system. The assumption is that those stupendous amounts outside could be proceeds of crime - corruption, kidnappings, robbery, etc., and so they would cease to be legal tender since the owners would not take them to the banks for fear of being found out. Again, the CBN governor disclosed that between 2015 and 2022, the currency in circulation doubled…

Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:08

This lie could get millions of Americans killed

Tucker Carlson The frustrating thing about the news media, no matter how horrible they are, is that you need them. You can't understand the world except through the news media. That's where all of our information comes from. We can't really change that at this point, but we can go into it with open eyes. You should know that the thing about reading the news is, even when it's not intentionally dishonest and often it is, no matter what the intent of it, the first draft of the story that you read is always wrong — not sometimes wrong —…

Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:07

Ndayebo: Eloquent testimony of courage, character and capacity - Mohammed Kuta Yahaya

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.” ― William S. Burroughs, I have difficulties to pen down this tribute because of the nostalgic moments shared with Danladi Ndayebo. I continue to imagine what to say and what not to say, but as a true believer in Allah’s will, that we all came from Almighty Allah and unto Him we shall all return sooner or later because we are all on transit in the world, with the certainty that every living soul shall taste death. Taking solace from the requirements in the Holy book…

Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:04

Tinubu’s campaign flag-off gaffe, et al - Dahiru Maishanu

When I wrote ‘Tinubu’s albatrosses’ not too long ago, many people thought I was unjustly harsh and probably seeking for my own ‘pound’ of flesh (whatever that means) and therefore writing balderdash. I mentioned Tinubu’s health, his controversial educational back ground, his age vis-à-vis his mobility and morbidity as many of the tides that may count against him in the 2023 general election race. So many, especially from his political flank dismissed my write up as mere ranting of a supposed ‘Pen’ enemy. But the events at the official flag-off of the APC Presidential campaign in Jos Tuesday 15th November,…

Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:03

Day Ayinla Omowura and Ayinde Barrister dueled in Philadelphia - Festus Adedayo

Bala-blu-blu-bulaba, All Progressives Congress (APC’s) festival of incoherences, should attract a writer. So also the celebration and justification of its impending fatality. Feeble and laughable as it may seem, Festus Keyamo’s Ananias and Saphirra role in this frightening reality too should not escape a dissection. I would have loved to ask Keyamo, in the words of Peter Tosh, “Where you gonna run to” on judgment day? However, about the time of this meaningless waffle, I was presenting a paper entitled Between Ayinla Omowura and Ayinde Barrister: Conflicting Notions of Superstardom in Fuji and Apala Music at the African Studies Association…

Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:02

The God that answers by fire (4) - Taiwo Akinola

Who Is This God That Answers By Fire? Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones …. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God ~ 1 Kings 18:38-39. Introduction Human beings sometimes allow themselves to be entangled with myriads of erroneous ideas and false worship, leading to vain exertions that naturally waste time and energy. In particular, false idols leave us bled out and used up, but the true God…

Saturday, 19 November 2022 05:34

The Ukraine quagmire will be an endless problem for America - Mike Davis

The problem with this this whole Ukraine quagmire is that it's just going to be an endless problem for America. We should step back and ask how many Americans are willing to sacrifice one of their loved ones, or even one of their paychecks for Ukraine? I say this as someone who thinks that Vladimir Putin is a monster. But I would also say this, Obama put Biden in charge of Ukraine when Obama was president and Biden was vice president. Biden's corrupt family made millions of dollars off of Ukraine. Back in 2014, Russia took Crimea, and now Russia…

Friday, 18 November 2022 05:23

In love, as in football, size does not matter. Here’s why - Azu Ishiekwene

It’s a great time to be a football lover. It might not feel exactly so if your country is not one of the 32 taking part in the 22nd edition of the World Cup in Doha, Qatar. But being a fan means managing to love the game without having your dog in the fight. For example, Nigeria’s national team, the Super Eagles, won’t be in Qatar – the second time in eight years. But since the team crashed out to Ghana in February, fans have managed to reconcile with their misery, especially with forthcoming elections which essentially foist a choice…

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Thursday, 17 November 2022 06:50

For Comrade Seinde Arigbede - Edwin Madunagu

Readers are referred to a short piece I wrote as my own contribution to the prefatory note for a 2021 “Book of Honour” done for me by the Nigerian Left, “Edwin Madunagu at 75: Tributes and Reflections”. The book was edited by Comrade Chido Onumah. This tribute to Comrade Seinde Arigbede who died early this month, November 2022 “dovetails” with the prefatory notes. Forty-six years ago, as I turned 30, I left Lagos for Ibadan. From Ibadan, together with a comrade of the same age (Comrade BJ), I left for a rural community somewhere between Gbongan and Ile-Ife in present-day…

Thursday, 17 November 2022 06:48

Buhari's expensive chat with King Charles - Bola Bolawole

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction – Pablo Ruiz Picasso President Muhammadu Buhari has been the butt of cruel jokes in the past one week! What the president must have thought was innocuous, social media read meanings into it such that Buhari would be wondering what really went wrong! In fact, the president and his spin doctors would have expected the media to applaud the action of Mr. President and his handlers who were able to pull off a visit to the mint-fresh king of England. Buhari was in London for one of his numerous medical…

Wednesday, 16 November 2022 06:19

Soludo’s wrong war against Peter Obi - Kennedy Emetulu

I just read the Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s piece titled, “History beckons and I will not be silent (1).” With such a dramatic title, I was keen to see what he was talking about only to see that it was a reaction to the negative responses he claims he’s been getting over a comment he made in an interview on Channels Television about some of Peter Obi’s investments on behalf of Anambra State while he was governor. Soludo had described those investments as “worth next to nothing,” which is why it’s expectedly generating some not-so-nice reactions from Obi’s supporters. Honestly, I’m…

Monday, 14 November 2022 06:18

ASUU: Of half-salary, pro-rata, six and half-a-dozen dichotomy - Bola Bolawole

When we thought the dust had settled on the eight-month-long strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), President Muhammadu Buhari’s fumbling and wobbling administration came up with its pro-rata as opposed to half-pay nonsensical dichotomy. In this instance, what is the difference between half-salary and the pro-rata payment the ASUU members received last October? For lecturers who had gone without pay for eight months, especially those of them with no other visible or viable means of livelihood other than their monthly salary, the semantics of half-pay and pro-rata is not only frustrating, it is also the last thing…

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