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Monday, 30 May 2022 06:16

Avoiding the road to Kigali - Bola Bolawole

I read the headlines of the story of a woman who allegedly was murdered together with her children, reportedly somewhere in the eastern parts of the country but I never really read the story. The past few weeks have been hectic for me and I have been “behind the news”, so to say. So you can imagine my shock when an elder I respect so much forwarded the material you are about to read to me. I suspect it was meant as an accusation that those who screamed from the rooftop when Deborah Samuel, a Christian, was cruelly murdered in…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:46

Mama Igosun resumes the offensive - Tatalo Alamu

A day after Jide Sanwo-Olu, the urbane, even-tempered and level-headed governor of Lagos State, announced a total ban on Okada motorcycle drivers, yours sincerely woke up to a fearsome din of cheers and applause coming from the street below. Bleary-eyed, Snooper frantically pulled the curtains. The whole scene was hazy and blurry at first. In the distance and amidst the total confusion, one could only make out the half-crazed dustbin woman of Sierra-Leonean ancestry screaming on top of her voice in wild excitement. “Oga, oga!!! You still dey sleep? Something done dey happening oo. Mama done do am again. He…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:45

As dollars elected, created mannequins at party primaries - Festus

While touring Northern Nigerian provinces in the 1950s to canvass for votes, Ahmadu Bello, the great-great grandson of Uthman dan Fodio and Premier of the Northern region, used to have his flowing robes stuffed with banknotes which he then distributed to the electorate. For the Sardauna, that munificence took the place of campaigning. This was aptly captured by John Meagher, in his ‘The Establishment of Military Government in Nigeria’ of February 16, 1966, with additional information from the National Archives and Research Administration (NARA) in Maryland, USA. So, on May 29, 2023, rather than victors in the All Progressives Congress…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:44

Standing on the promises of God - Taiwo Akinola

Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant ~ 1 Kings 8:56. Introduction: The Bible is replete with great and precious prophetic promises, which cover all aspects of the human life (2 Peter 1:3). These promises come in various formats. Some are spiritually coded and require spiritual eyes to decipher them, while some others are just plain and simple enough to personalize. Anyhow, there is always the need to…

Sunday, 29 May 2022 06:43

Article of faith: Avoiding generational curses (2) - Femi Aribisala

Sickness is a curse of the law arising from the sin of disobedience. God says: “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26). Death is also a curse. God told Adam: “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of…

Friday, 27 May 2022 06:46

Journey to Grenada and reparations for slavery - Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria’s spectacular crises in almost every facet of its national life are inescapable. They cling like your skin. And for your sanity, you must detox from time to time. I hope this trip to Grenada, through Afghanistan, helps. Instead of writing about killings of the most bestial variety up and down the country, an economy on life support, insecurity, ASUU strike, men fighting for Allah and those defending them, the politics of 2023 that has left even politicians confused and enthroned delegates as royalty, I’ve decided to comment on a topic in which I recently renewed interest. In a recent…

Friday, 27 May 2022 06:45

Now that husbands are scarce commodities - Michael West

A woman approached her pastor for prayers concerning marriage because she's agitated as delay in getting a man was no longer taken lightly. While on her knees, the pastor asked why she wanted to marry. The question was rather funny as the woman and I burst into ribs cracking laughter. He went further to say "Why do you want to enter into ‘problem’ while you're doing well on your own? Are you not aware that several married women are planning to exit their marriages because of daunting challenges they're facing in it? You better stay calm and serve God peacefully…

Wednesday, 25 May 2022 06:33

Goodnight our Sango, the ultimate revolutionary - Lanre Arogundade

Segun Sango (born Segun Aderemi) wrote his own epitaph. He dreamt the working class socialist revolution; he spoke and worked for it; and he lived an exemplanary life of a true revolutionist. Both in theory and praxis, he was a Nigerian version of truly dedicated world-class revolutionaries who built cadres across generations. A man of steel, he was strong in illness, such that he lived for years with debilitating illness. But the unquantifiable love and care of his wife, a good and kind hearted comrade in her own special regard, was also a most significant factor. Thank you Tinu. Yes,…

Wednesday, 25 May 2022 06:31

So, who made who? - Bola Bolawole

The debate is on as to who made who! Did you make me or it was me who made you? Is this a case of the right hand washing the left and the left washing the right? Is this a symbiosis of what the Yoruba call "owo omode o to pepe, t'agbalagba o wo akeregbe"? Or "omode gbon, agba gbon la fi da Ile- Ife"? Let's take a look at a few of the specifics. If you were a generator repairer in Alimosho local government area of Lagos State and someone picks you up from there and makes you a…

Monday, 23 May 2022 06:21

Still on Deborah Samuel - Bola Bolawole

Someone said when it comes to religion, some Nigerians fight for God but when it comes to their own livelihood and fundamental human rights, they ask God to fight for them! Sarcastic but how true! You may also have come across another post that analysed the difference between knowledge economy and religion economy. The Black man’s economy is the religion economy while the White man’s economy is the knowledge economy. One of the philosophers of Negritude and former president of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor, says reason is Hellenic (White or European) while emotion is African (Black). But Aime Cesaire, another…

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Monday, 23 May 2022 06:17

2023: Let’s look to the Northeast - Hassan Gimba

As parties are getting set to produce their candidates, we feel the need to reproduce this write-up, first published on October 18 last year. If I were to be as sentimental as people are, I would say the Northeast, my zone, must produce the president in 2023. Many people fight for their people, region, zone or state to produce the president for various reasons. Reasons may range from the fact that a president attracts some goodies to his area. Ministers and other chief executives fall over themselves to site projects where the president comes from. Captains of industry, too, are…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:32

In time of crisis: Civilian and soldier - Wole Soyinka

Ibrahim Attahiru would be immensely pleased and appreciative if he could become aware of another passing being commemorated today, indeed this very moment. The connection is that the late Tony Uranta, whose week-long remembrance rites have also commenced in Lagos, and Opobo, shared an article of faith with the late General, namely, that the sustainable security of society is crucially dependent on a tripod whose three legs are: the People, the Army and the government. Thus, the weakness or flaws in any one leg leads to the collapse of society. The mandatory implication of this, in practical terms, is that…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:30

And Baba Lekki explodes… - Tatalo Alamu

Accosted by a luckless journalist after storming out on the communiqué drafting committee of a new group calling itself Referendum Now, Baba Lekki was full of bile and choleric rage. “Baba, how do you see the pardon of convicted political office holders?” the journalist demanded. “Pardon me!!” the old codger snarled as he shambled away. “How do you see the state of the country?” the journalist demanded. “The country is in quite a state”, the old man growled. “But Itse Sagay said there is nothing wrong with the pardon”, the old hack noted. “You see, Itse has run into a…

Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:28

APC, PDP, the brass bell and spirit of Godwin Odiye - Festus Adedayo

The story of football dribbling wizard, Godwin Odiye, is told almost like a legend in Nigerian football. A former Nigerian international defender, Odiye’s football career began to luster when he signed on to play with the third division league side, Nestle and thereafter, National Bank of Lagos. While he featured in the Nigerian national football team that played FIFA World Cup qualifying matches and the 1976 and 1980 African Cup of Nations finals, Odiye’s football achievements paled into insignificance when put beside a 1977 calamity that his foot wrought on the field of play. Gradually, all his remarkable footballing sensations,…

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