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Thursday, 15 September 2022 06:37

Buhari, still the Jibril of Sudan - Abimbola Adelakun

At the height of the chatter the current occupant of Aso Rock, Muhamamdu Buhari had been body snatched by a certain Jibril (or Jubril) from Sudan, this column pointed out that there is some sense in the nonsense being retailed in some quarters. Stories do not always need to be logical before they can be considered reasonable. Sometimes, what it illuminates despite its incoherence is some deeper truth about people’s situations. While no actual Jibril was impersonating Buhari, the Jibrilisation and Sudanisation of the president illustrated alienisation. Considering how alienated he was from the people he supposedly rules, the theory…

Wednesday, 14 September 2022 06:09

Winning Nigeria’s presidency: The rule of four - Osita Chidoka

A friend sent an image of the 1979 election result with an analysis that suggests that the 2023 election will upend my argument at the World Igbo Congress, that you need to be victorious in four zones in Nigeria to win the presidency. He argued that my postulation would hold in a two-way race but not in a four-way race, as the 2023 election is set to be. By his logic, the 2023 election would be a different ball game. I believe many share this view. I do not agree with him and these are the facts that guide my…

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:55

Etsu Nupe @ 70: A life of unquantifiable grace - Muhammed Kuta Yahaya

For nearly two weeks, the Nupe nation, friends, family and admirers have been in a celebratory mood ahead of the 70th birthday anniversary of the the Etsu Nupe and paramount ruler of the Nupe people, His Royal Highness, Yahaya Abubakar. The euphoria that today’s event has generated should not be surprising, for, in the last five decades, this debonair monarch has bestrode the military, traditional and public scene. At every tum, he has been distinguished and exceptional, exuding a genius that is intimidating in every sense of the word. There is no section of the Nigerian public space in which…

Monday, 12 September 2022 12:55

That Mahdi Shehu TV interview that nobody wants to talk about - Sulaiman Aledeh

Nigerian businessman, medical practitioner, and activist, Mahdi Shehu has narrated to Arise News an event that happened 27 years ago and was significant to the turn of many other events in the country. Shehu revealed the staggering event when he answered questions on why the DSS arrested Tukur Mamu, the man who operated as an intermediary between the families of the abducted Kaduna train attack and bandits. He accused security agencies of being ‘jealous’ when there are individuals who have classified information. In his narration, Mahdi cited an event in 1995, where he was offered money to place a bomb…

Monday, 12 September 2022 06:22

Wike: Hero or villain? Bola Bolawole

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers state must at this time mean different things to different people. For those like the PDP national leader, Olabode George, who believe in Wike’s cry for justice within the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Rivers state governor is a hero and a voice that must not be silenced but should, instead, be listened to and his advice heeded. But for those at the receiving end on Wike’s advocacy for fairness and fair play in the PDP, like former Gov. Sule Lamido of Jigawa state, Wike is a villain; a loud-mouthed irritant…

Monday, 12 September 2022 06:20

An agenda for national rebirth (4) - Hassan Gimba

To continue on this unending topic, we will look at how leaders and followers ought to conduct their affairs. Let’s start from the top. A leader creates and nurtures others to be leaders. He must possess a clear vision and focus, know what he wants for his country and should be courageous enough to follow his dream. Apart from possessing integrity and honesty, a good leader has humility, is fair and just with the capacity for self-sacrifice and perseverance. A leader puts national interest above his. We have had leaders in this country that lived and served by this rule…

Sunday, 11 September 2022 06:49

Examining Uju Anya’s vitriol on Queen Elizabeth - Festus Adedayo

Like a prude confronted with sexually explicit images, the world didn’t hide its shock at Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya’s negative comments last week on late British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The world had waited with bated breath at manifest indications that Elizabeth’s last hours had come. Amid this apprehension, the Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Critical Sociolinguistics and Critical Discourse at Carnegie Mellon University launched her salvo. It came in the form of a tweet that brimmed with bile and hate. She had twitted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May…

Sunday, 11 September 2022 06:48

Exercising our dominion over territorial spirits - Taiwo Akinola

When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils ~ Luke 11:21-22. Introduction: The devil incessantly seeks to encroach upon our spiritual territories. Hence, we must live ready to wrestle against him and his minions, standing our grounds and regularly launching the offensives to reclaim our stolen territories. We were made to dominate and never to be decimated (Ephesians 6:10-16). Basically, most battles in this world are territorial in…

Sunday, 11 September 2022 06:46

Article of faith: The God who wounds us (2) - Femi Aribisala

One of the most dramatic things that ever happened to me was being attacked by armed robbers. In the middle of the attack, my ears were opened, and I heard God for the very first time. He promised me that the attack would amount to nothing. However, immediately after He made me this promise, one of the robbers shot me in the leg. I then had the privilege of not only witnessing how God saved me from the robbers but also how He turned the bullet wound in my leg into nothing by dramatically healing me. Thereby, I obtained a…

Friday, 09 September 2022 06:45

A country without a government, a people without a leader - Tola Adeniyi

Can you imagine a football team without a captain, an aeroplane without a pilot, a boat or ship without a captain, a school without a headmaster, a university without a President/Vice Chancellor, a town without a monarch, a village without a Baale, a Church without a priest, a mosque without an Imam, an Iledi without Oluwo, a market without Iyaloja??? Just imagine…… That is the state the cursed and accursed country named Nigeria by Fredrick Lugard, a eunuch, has been in the last sorrowful 7 years plus. Seven years of severe, slanderous, sacrilegious, sanguinary, sanguineous and satanic savagery. Seven years…

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Friday, 09 September 2022 06:44

Lessons about change from Ruto’s playbook - Azu Ishiekwene

In six African countries the heads of government have been in power for 20 years or more. Attempts to replace them by ballot have either been stalled, frustrated or crushed. In a few, like South Africa where the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has been in power for 28 years, new heads of government have been produced more by incest than by the ballot. The ruling by Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday validating the election of the presidential candidate of the Kenya Kwanza party, William Ruto, offers an example that it is indeed possible to remove incumbents and their parties…

Thursday, 08 September 2022 06:48

Akin Mabogunje: In memoriam - Bola Bolawole

I never met Akin Mabogunje, Emeritus Professor of Geography; neither did I have any relationship with him other than reading news reports about him and some of his interventions on topical issues. His image, however, loomed large over our horizon. He was one of the titans of our time; an academic of no mean repute and a gentleman with sterling qualities fast becoming extinct on these shores. I recall reading of his many “firsts” in many areas of human endeavours as well as of him being a man of principles and integrity. Such accolades cannot be easily bestowed on many…

Monday, 05 September 2022 06:27

Oronsaye Report and the burden of history - Bola Bolawole

More often than not, government business in Nigeria is akin to monkey business. "The more you look is the less you see"; like the reggae artiste, Max Romeo, once crooned. What appears legit elsewhere is patently taboo here. Governance here looks more like voodoo practice. What works elsewhere worsens our plight here. And the fault, like Cassius told Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings. Our leaders have ceaselessly been our headache. They play games with not just the destiny of the people but also with the good health and survival of the nation…

Monday, 05 September 2022 06:26

Nigeria and presidential democracy: Any better alternative? (2) - Hassan Gimba

We have looked at various forms of government in the first part of this treatise. We ended with the posers, “Can we continue this way? Is it the fault of the system or the operators of the system? Should we scout for a better system or better operators? Should we look inwards? Will a system in tandem with our inner being be the answer to our multifaceted and ever-growing problems as a nation?” We signed off with this thought: “Perhaps we have been imposing on ourselves systems that are alien to us, to our culture, to our souls.” Some think…

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