Opinion

The greatest threat to Nigeria's national unity is the refusal to shift power to the South next year. Nothing could be more dangerous to our national cohesion than another 8 years of Fulani rule after President Muhammadu Buhari. The Northern Governors of the APC themselves made this point and saw this danger and consequently insisted on a power shift to the South. To my utter surprise and consternation they did not just say no to another Fulani but they went further by saying no to ANY Northerner including those that were not Fulani. To them it was a matter of…
Since man became aware of himself and realised that whether by mutual arrangement or contrived by nature, there are always leaders and followers, communities fashioned out ways and means in which to live together under organised systems to regulate and conduct their affairs. From primitive father figure leadership to the animalistic instinct of the strongest leading the flock, man has experimented with many ways in which to live in harmony with one another and with the larger community. Since then, nations have tinkered with various forms, some of which developed into absolute monarchy (absolutism), limited monarchy (constitutional monarchy), direct democracy…
Sunday, 21 August 2022 06:35

Time to kill NBC - Festus Adedayo

The hypothesis which states that words, either written or spoken, are the worst enemy of despots and totalitarian regimes has been tested overtime. Words are lethal, superior to mortars and armaments of war and penetrate deeper than bullets. Words are equally known to eventually precipitate the collapse of despotic regimes. It then stands to reason that dictators must wage war on words. Merve Buyuksarac found out the above when it was almost too late. Crowned Miss Turkey in 2006, Merve’s brush with the imperial power of Recep Tayyip Erdogan began like a joke. On her Instagram page, assuming that poetic…
And the LORD shewed me four carpenters. Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it ~ Zechariah 1:20-21. Introduction: The Bible clearly informs us that the whole world yet lies in wickedness (1 John 5:19). The political wrangling and the insecurity situations in many nations today, the incessant misunderstandings in many…
Which is more challenging, to follow Jesus or walk before Him? We are required to do both simultaneously. But there is no question that it is more difficult to walk before God than to follow Him. When we follow Jesus, we can still be up to no good, in the mistaken belief that He would not know exactly what we are doing unless He looks back. Thus, Judas followed Jesus while, at the same time, stealing money from the common purse. But if we walk before God, we must walk in the consciousness of Him. We will always be aware…
“I’m going to waste my vote,” a friend told me recently. “And don’t argue with me,” he added. “It’s my right to do so.” I defied him. Regrettably, even though I also recruited help nearby to press home my point, my unsolicited advice fell on deaf ears. My friend’s mind was made up and nothing would stop him. What he intends to do, according to him, is to vote for a candidate in the 2023 presidential election that he knows would lose. He did not name names, though in the countdown to next year’s election, I have heard the suspect…
Thursday, 18 August 2022 05:55

Freedom vs. Fatwa - Abimbola Adelakun

Last Friday, author Salman Rushdie was stabbed at a literary event in New York. The attack culminated the many years of harassment by religious fundamentalists over his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses. When the book was published, Muslims took umbrage over its contents and demonstrated their feelings through public protests and book burnings. Several countries banned the book, Iran synthesised the rage into a Fatwa. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, head of the theocratic regime of Iran, sought a soft target after an attritional war with Iraq (and the resultant economic fallout had brewed domestic disaffection against him) and capitalised on the…
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 06:15

Still on ASUU-FG impasse - Bola Bolawole

Last week we featured the intervention of the immediate past vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Eyitope Ogunbodede, on the lingering crisis between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, which began on February 14 this year. As an insider, Ogunbodede, fresh from leading OAU for five years (2017 – 2022), spoke truth to power while also not sparing ASUU. It is an open secret that Nigerian governments have failed to give the pride of place to education; year-in, year-out, it falls miserably short of the UNESCO recommended threshold for the funding of education. A bad…
In the same “Change Must Begin with the Leader” written on 06/07/2020, we observed: “In Nigeria, they promised us ‘change’ and we fought to bring in its champions. Some lost their capital, others their health, while some paid the supreme price, but we all heaved a sigh of relief and proclaimed, “It has come!” We wanted change, and we thought fairness and justice would take the place of selfishness and impunity; that transparency and accountability would replace corruption but, above all, that our lives and property would be secure. “We have seen how our leaders of old discarded our homemade…
Asked to write an essay in Professor of Psychology, Scott Allison’s “Heroes & Villains” class at the University of Richmond, Virginia, Corinne Devaney chose Bob Marley. Marley was a mulatto born in crime-centric slum neighborhood of St. Anne in Jamaica. He was a product of a liaison between a Black mother, then 18-year old Miss Cedella Malcom and Norval Sinclair Marley, a white father from Crowborough, East Sussex, UK. The older Marley was then about 60 years of age. Sinclair and Cedella had met and later married while she was working as a supervisor on a Jamaican plantation. Norval later…
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Dangote says he’s comfortable with Trump tariffs on urea exports

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said on Thursday he was "comfortable" with the impact President Donald…
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Appeal Court upholds conviction of professor who rigged election for Akpabio amid public outrage

The Court of Appeal in Calabar has upheld the conviction and three-year prison sentence of…
May 02, 2025

4 rules for better conversations: ‘We’re all very hungry to feel understood,’ says Harvard professor

Aditi Shrikant I attended a party recently where the conversation just couldn’t gain momentum. Many…
April 26, 2025

Declassified CIA file about UFO aliens attacking soldiers released

A declassified document posted to the CIA’s website is raising eyebrows with claims of an…
April 29, 2025

At least 26 people killed as 2 vehicles run over bomb planted by Boko Haram…

At least 26 people were killed on Monday when two vehicles detonated an improvised explosive…
May 02, 2025

What to know after Day 1163 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE US rejected Ukraine’s security guarantee demands – NYT The US has rejected Ukraine’s…
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Smartphone use could reduce dementia risk in older adults, study finds

The first generation that has been exposed consistently to digital technology has reached the age…
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NFF appoints new Super Eagles head coach

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Éric Sékou Chelle as the new Head Coach…

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