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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…

Wednesday, 13 July 2022 05:44

Tinubu’s audacious Muslim-Muslim ticket (1) - Bola Bolawole

Audacity is a word made popular in our own time by the erstwhile United States of America president, Barack Hussein Obama. A relatively little-known Black man, in a country still seething with racial discrimination against the people of colour - as Blacks, African-Americans, Latinos, etc were called - decided to go for not just the highest office in the land but the most powerful, most respected, and most feared in the entire world. He was not really a national icon at the time but a little-known state Senator just serving his first term in the US Senate. Though talented with…

Tuesday, 12 July 2022 07:23

Hypocrisy and the dysfunctional world order - Omoluabi Dele

Nothing seems to be more definitive of the human experience as hypocrisy is. It is the reason why some, not of as much moral constitution as they would wish the world to believe, would describe others as immoral, primitive, uncivilised, or incapable of being able to organise their societies within the frame of higher values. Yet, our shared history as humans speaks otherwise, and points out primal similarities, while also revealing that the ability to point at others and call them needless names is essentially a function of power. One of the greatest theatres of hypocrisy is certainly the sphere…

Monday, 11 July 2022 06:29

I have no respect for the current leadership of Nigeria’s Armed Forces - Femi Fani-Kayode

I read the response from Defence Headquarters (dated 9. 7. 2022) to my video about the insecurity in the country and the attack on Kuje prison and I was utterly amused. Given the gravity and seriousness of the deteriorating security situation in our country I did not know whether to laugh or cry when I read through it. I would advise strongly that the military High Command and Defence Headquarters spends its time facing up to and fighting the terrorists that have turned our nation into a functional killing field and horrendous bloodbath and abattoir over the last few years…

Monday, 11 July 2022 06:26

Peter Obi and the protestant ethic - Akin Osuntokun

In the book titled the ‘protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism’ the German sociologist, Max Weber attributed the development of capitalism to the protestant ethic (protestantism is a form of christianity that originated with the 16th-century reformation, a movement against what its followers perceived to be errors in the Catholic Church). What then is the protestant ethic? Inclusively it consists of of the dynamic interaction of the the following elements, asceticism, discipline, virtue and the doctrine of predestination-as amended. Of all these elements, Weber argued, the reconceptualisation of the doctrine of predestination is the most decisive determinant in the…

Monday, 11 July 2022 06:24

When the subject sees through the king - Hassan Gimba

In January 2019, the Daily Trust newspaper had its Maiduguri office shut down by the military over its reportage on the fight against insurgency. This made me think about governments and the failure of leadership, or, aptly, the king whose subjects saw through him. And so on January 14, 2019, on this page, under the title “The Military, Press and War Against Insurgency,” I gave that brief story. There is this fable of a king who, together with his palace courtiers and subjects, was scammed by a con artist who knew that people, rather than acknowledging the truth, would always…

Sunday, 10 July 2022 06:51

Kuje: Did we hand over Nigeria to terrorists in 2015? - Festus Adedayo

For those who watch the complicated Nigerian security mess from afar, the killing of Japanese ex-Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe in Nara, Japan last Thursday and the ambushing, two days earlier, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s advance convoy in Dutsinma, about 152 kilometres from his hometown of Daura, Katsina State, both speak to rising global insecurity. A few hours after on that same Tuesday, that joke went burst. Approximately three hours after shelling the president’s advance convoy with an assortment of bullets, killing two people in the process, around 10pm, terrorists stormed the Kuje Custodial Centre in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)…

Friday, 08 July 2022 07:04

Matawalle’s guns - Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria is awash with arms – guns, bullets, charms, drugs and local stuff. Not just Nigeria. The entire Sahelian and sub-Saharan African region is drowning in deadly small arms and light weapons – so-called because of their portability and ease of use and adaptation. The firearms may be out of the line of sight, but they are making the rounds in cars and motorcycles or as headloads and hand luggage, concealed in unimaginable places. Many are also believed to be siphoned from the armouries of security agencies, and are making their way into the hands of “unknown gunmen” with destructive…

Friday, 08 July 2022 06:52

Good night, beloved Akanni Aluko - Folu Olamiti

I woke up in the early hours of 1 July 2022 around 2 am. I felt in my body some kind of chilling feelings, broke into praise worship, read the day's portion of the Bible and said my prayers. Usually I should have read Akanni Aluko's usual new month message forwarded at the end of every month but did not see it before I went to bed. I went to his message platform at 4.45 am still it was not there. I shrugged it off and shifted to doing other things. At 6.02 am, my phone rang. Lo and behold!…

Thursday, 07 July 2022 06:41

2023: Four-horse race or nothing? - Bola Bolawole

The much-anticipated realignment of political forces has begun in earnest. That which was predicted would follow the outcome of the presidential primaries of the two leading political parties – the APC and PDP – is already upon us! We have seen a gale of defections and carpet-crossing from APC to PDP and vice-versa but it would seem the PDP has the upper hand at the moment in that more big wigs have moved in its direction than away from it. So intense and alarming was the gale of defection from the ruling party that the president and leader of the…

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Thursday, 07 July 2022 06:40

Don’t blame Peter Obi for his zealous supporters - Abimbola Adelakun

At this stage in his campaign, Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, should be laying out the policy ideas and ideology that will define his government and building a team of competent managers who can run with his vision. For a man who has accumulated a growing band of self-motivated and organic following in a short period, he needs to make the best of the interest he is generating. The last thing—the very last thing—he needs at the moment is wringing his hands and apologising for the zeal of his supporters. Nothing they are doing is new. That is the…

Tuesday, 05 July 2022 06:16

Onnoghen, the Egungun of Okurike - Aba Saheed

Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, born December 22, 1950 has just been installed the Egungun of Okurike, Biase, Cross River State of Nigeria. It was quite an elaborate ceremony and those who were unlucky to have missed the historic and epoch-making installation may have to lick their lips for a long time to come. It was not known to many people, probably not known to Onnoghen himself until Nigeria’s President spotted the dreaded Iroko god Oluwere in Onnoghen’s pouch and announced to the world that nobody else in Africa, at this point in time, deserved the…

Monday, 04 July 2022 06:11

Let’s talk hope - Hassan Gimba

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future, someone once said. Even though there are enough reasons to continue with the treatise on banditry and shared sovereignty - such a depressing fact of our national life - however, today I want to look at the other side - the side of hope. Hope is to believe with an audacity that better days are afoot, the ability to see light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah, hope is tough at the moment - what with the massacre of about 30 of our gallant soldiers by Boko Haram in Minna…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 06:57

Baba Lekki sings ARIWO lenu vendor - Tatalo Alamu

After a late meal of fried breadfruit and a prehistoric variant of mountain legumes still very popular in the hilly intersections of Oke Osun and Ekiti terrain, your columnist was rudely awaken by the din of early morning merriment and festivity going on in the neighbourhood. Rather than rush out of bed to engage the revellers, yours sincerely decided to let discretion be the better part of valour. These days, one is never sure whether the coming revolution will be musicalized or televised. But as the melodious noise grew louder, yours sincerely could pick Oke Ogun music and the mellifluous…

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