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Monday, 13 June 2022 06:31

Of banditry and a shared sovereignty (3) - Hassan Gimba

Last week, they attacked an estate within Abuja. Gunmen, bandits, Boko Haram, those who “drag” sovereignty with Nigeria, attacked Genuine Estate, within the vicinity of Gwarimpa, Nigeria’s (some accounts say south of the Sahara’s) largest housing estate. They did this undisturbed and calmly, between 1 and 4am on Sunday. The police said it was a robbery attack. Residents, however, said they kidnapped some of their people. Now, we all know that robbers hardly take prisoners. It is now left for people to believe who they want to believe. But based on precedent, I will want to believe the residents because…

Sunday, 12 June 2022 06:39

The ruins, villains and bagmen of June 12 - Festus Adedayo

After last week’s national convention of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) President Muhammadu Buhari wrote, profusely thanking the governor of Kebbi State, Abubakar Bagudu, for his yeoman role in the convention’s success. Buhari’s letter commended Bagudu for the “extraordinary role” he played in ensuring the successful conduct of the convention. Bagudu is the Chairman, Progressives Governors’ Forum, and in this role, conducted the recent national convention that ensured the victory of a man who was the “son” and protégé of the winner of the June 12, 1993 election annulled by Ibrahim Babangida and whose pallbearer was Sani Abacha. This man,…

Sunday, 12 June 2022 06:38

Joy in the Holy Ghost (2) - Taiwo Akinola

The joy of the Lord: Our strength! Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength ~ Nehemiah 8:10. Introduction: It is my irrefragable conclusion that anytime the devil sees a window of opportunity to attack a person's destiny or progress in life, the first thing he strikes at is joy in the person's heart. Why? He knows pretty well that the joy…

Sunday, 12 June 2022 06:37

Article of faith: The blessing of peace (1) - Femi Aribisala

The scriptures tell us about a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years. It was a physical ailment that affected her body. But physical ailments often have other implications and ramifications. In her case, the physical ailment affected her wallet and her finances. She spent all her money seeking medical attention but to no avail. But most important of all, the physical ailment also had an adverse effect on her mind. How do we know this? We know because Jesus did not just heal this woman her infirmity. He restored her peace of mind. He gave her…

Sunday, 12 June 2022 06:36

Disciplining your toddler at the end of the world - Julia Fine

In early March 2020, at five months pregnant, I transitioned my 2.5-year-old from a crib to a toddler bed. He was going to be a big brother and change was inevitable, though mostly I was tired of hefting him over the railing, which required a bending motion that encouraged my second-trimester heartburn. He’d always struggled with transitions, hadn’t slept through the night until close to 2, so I was ready for a battle, and determined not to let my own feelings about the seismic shift he didn’t know was coming affect my resolve. My husband and I would be firm…

Saturday, 11 June 2022 06:01

Window dressing at the Eagle Square - Tola Adeniyi

The much awaited and severely hyped conclusion of the gambling exercise of the Abracadabra Patented Crooks took place last Tuesday June 7, 2022 at the lavishly decorated Lotto Pavilion otherwise called the Eagle Square Abuja. The Gambling, a bazaar of some sort, was watched live throughout the world courtesy Channels and TVC networks and viewers, including this writer, were glued to their seats for close to 12 hour-duration of the theatrical performance. A similar exercise by the Provocative Devils Pandemic had taken place a week earlier at the Moshood Abiola International Stadium Abuja. Some other organizations like Labour, PRP and…

Friday, 10 June 2022 06:23

Tinubu: Back story and the morning after - Azu Ishiekwene

After the feisty, if not bitter, presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ended on Wednesday with Bola Tinubu emerging the party’s candidate for the next election, the overriding instinct is to throw the losers under the bus. You can hardly blame Tinubu’s camp. The man had a raw deal right up to the last minute. For seven years, he was literally an outsider in a party that he played a consequential role to build and a government that he helped to bring to power. And no one seemed to bother. As Tinubu said in a speech in…

Friday, 10 June 2022 06:22

Suicide: Women and their killer tongues - Michael West

Most of the time, I appreciate men that stay married over the years not because they are better than their peers who have lost their homes to separation or divorce but because they are able to endure acidic tongues of their wives in moments of anger. Women are not known to be pugilistic like men but their incisive, prickly and razor blade-tongues are deadlier and injurious than ballistic missiles. Many women do display their rich vocabulary and wordsmith skills when they engage in disputes. They become finely articulate, giving precise and commensurate responses to every dart of words haul at…

Thursday, 09 June 2022 06:43

Tinubu vs Atiku: Two desperadoes running against Nigeria - Abimbola Adelakun

For a long time, Nigeria has bandied around what has amounted to a myth that whoever seeks the presidency hardly gets it. Historical observers have variously posited that what we have almost always had are “accidental” presidents—men reluctant to step out for leadership roles but who somehow, through whimsical engineering of fate, find the presidency thrust on them. A run through the list of our past leaders, civilian and military, attests to this. It was a myth that held up until Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) showed up and ran until he eventually became president in 2015. Well, Nigeria’s luck…

Tuesday, 07 June 2022 06:34

Still on Tinubu, betrayals and betrayers - Seun Kolade

Like loyalty, betrayal can be classified under two main categories: betrayal of a person, and betrayal of a cause. These are distinct, albeit sometimes overlapping categories. That is because there are times when a person embodies a worthy cause, in which case betraying the person is effectually a betrayal of the cause. I would argue that an individual embodiment of a cause is a like spectrum. An individual can never fully embody a cause, because causes are transcendent. Causes are always something beyond the self, to which a group of people summon their collective aspirations. So when we talk about…

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Monday, 06 June 2022 02:32

The fallacies in Tinubu’s claim of making Buhari president - Sola Adeyeye

Immediarely preceding this piece are the summaries for the Nigerian Presidential election results for 2007, 2011 and 2015. In the absence of pertinent data, politics in Nigeria is often reduced to tall tales and decorated half-truths. Bola Tinubu's ventilations at Abeokuta fully exemplified this. While Tinubu was arrogantly boasting at Abeokuta, lost on him was the irony that Buhari was not the only one who had suffered defeat in previous Presidential elections. In 2007, Buhari very significantly outperformed the combination of Tinubu and Atiku. In fact, despite the fact that Buhari spent very little money, Buhari garnered over 6 million…

Monday, 06 June 2022 02:30

Of Atiku’s sucker punch, Wike’s tantrums and APC’s only door - Hassan Gimba

Had Atiku Abubakar, former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, two-time unlucky in presidential elections on the platform of two different parties, and a veteran of four presidential primary elections, been a pugilist, he would have been one in the mould of the great Muhammad Ali. Ali, who called himself ‘The Greatest’, with the world agreeing, invented the famous rope-a-dope style of combat. He would lay back on the squared ropes, exposing his torso, specifically the abdomen part, for the opponent to keep on punching. Being mostly wham-bam pugilists, they usually got sucked up in that activity, lured…

Monday, 06 June 2022 02:29

What if Ukraine is a forever crisis? - Harold James

Russia’s attack on Ukraine is coming to resemble many previous geopolitical crises. Throughout history, episodes that initially seemed like temporary disruptions have become prolonged affairs. What start out as short confrontations very often result in a seemingly endless morass. The most famous case of such a crisis is World War I, which George F. Kennan accurately described as the “great seminal catastrophe” of the twentieth century. The sheer scale of the mobilization in August 1914 fostered a widespread belief that the conflict could not last long – that it “would be over by Christmas.” But what followed was a war…

Sunday, 05 June 2022 06:59

Has Tinubu read the story of S. L. Akintola’s last days? - Festus Adedayo

The war of the First Republic had reached a feverish height. Those it consumed were wheeled to the sepulcher by the day. Blood of political party faithful painted the sky crimson. According to Femi Kehinde, a former member of the House of Representatives and biographer of the last Premier of the Western Region, Samuel Ladoke Akintola, in the book, S.L. Akintola In The Eyes of History, (2017) Akintola knew that his standing up to the octopodal political machine in the Action Group was akin to suicide. Death bestrode the firmament like an ominous cloud. The Premier could see it. He…

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