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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…

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…

Friday, 29 July 2022 06:30

Asking for trouble - Azu Ishiekwene

After BBC Africa service promoted a story on Friday of an interview with the bandit warlords of Zamfara State, a senior Nigerian journalist, Kadaria Ahmed, called out the broadcaster in a tweet. Kadaria, an ex-Beeb, said the interview would give the terrorists oxygen, stoke hysteria and bring nothing but pain and misery to hundreds of victims and their families. In the thread that followed, the BBC Eye co-founding executive producer and others who weighed in disagreed with Kadaria. They said without understanding the enemy you cannot solve the problem. Or perhaps get the government to see the seriousness. Not long…

Thursday, 28 July 2022 06:39

The BBC in Nigeria: Between reporting and propagating terror - Kadaria Ahmed

It has simply gotten out of hand. Journalists and now a global media organisation of repute, the BBC, which should know better, are becoming tools for terrorists, even if unwittingly, by amplifying the faces, voices and stories of killers and marauders who are still operating with impunity across Nigeria. The public interest argument seems to have been misunderstood, some may even say misrepresented, to enable sensationalist reporting that is very unlikely to be allowed on screens in the United Kingdom. By not upholding the same standards as they would uphold in the UK, in their work in Nigeria, the producers…

Thursday, 28 July 2022 06:37

Banditry and Atiku’s ‘90% voters’ - Abimbola Adelakun

In a recent broadcast, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, mentioned that most of those who would vote for him are not on social media. During his interview with Arise TV last Friday, Atiku noted that 90 per cent of the people comprising his political base, the Northern region of Nigeria, do not use social media. This silent majority is his joker compared to his Labour Party opponent’s online following. Some people made predictable noises about Atiku’s claim, but the man was hardly wrong. According to data provider Statista, only about 53 million of us currently use social…

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Wednesday, 27 July 2022 06:28

Between slaughtered cattle and insecurity in Nigeria - Is'haq Modibbo Kawu

Recently, the video of hundreds of slaughtered cattle, was making the rounds, on various social media platforms. An old classmate posted it on my Secondary School Class WhatsApp platform; and because he neither spoke Fulfulde nor Hausa, he was sufficiently alarmed, to request for translation of what was being said, by the obviously distressed people, in the video. I made a translation of the conversation; but I thought it was proper to provide some more engaging context for the video. There have been circulated in the recent past, several videos, in the same vein, of the slaughter of cattle; the…

Monday, 25 July 2022 07:05

Is Akeredolu turning a new leaf? - Bola Bolawole

In the wake of the terrorists attack on Owo, Ondo state on June 5, 2022, I asked questions around to try and establish the likely reasons for the bestial and dastardly attack. One explanation was that the terrorists appeared to have a grouse with Catholics – whatever the grouse! Previous as well as subsequent events of the number of Catholic priests killed by terrorists all over the country may justify the need to further explore this explanation. Another reason given was that it was a subtle declaration of war on the Igbo outside of their insurgency-ravaged enclave, since it is…

Monday, 25 July 2022 07:03

Open letter to Ndigbo - Hassan Gimba

There was an outcry last week when Ebubeagu Operatives, a security outfit formed by the Imo State Government killed some suspected gunmen. Some people came out to say they were innocent youths who attended a traditional marriage in Awo – Ommama in Oru East Local Government area of the state. Such things will continue and this is why I see the need to repeat this epistle published on June 6, 2021 with the hope that reason will prevail in the Southeast. Nwanne m, ndewo. My Igbo brothers, I find it necessary to send you this epistle – from a Northeasterner…

Sunday, 24 July 2022 07:22

Mama Igosun’s Sallah goat succumbs to a technical knock out

A week after the Sallah festivities, yours sincerely was roused from afternoon siesta by some commotion on the street. A goat was bleating in distress in the distance with a distraught old woman screaming and raining curses on the poor animal. Lo! It was Mama Igosun dragging the Sallah goat yours sincerely had bought for her through the streets while heaping imprecations and indignities on the fellow. One would have thought that a ram bought for Sallah would have become victual history a week after the Sallah celebrations, but not so. Mama had actually cajoled one to buying a hefty…

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