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Sunday, 03 April 2022 06:40

Ghandi Olaoye: Why Pastors should not become kings - Deji Yesufu

There is the possibility that everything I will be writing in this essay will be a rehearsing of things I have written before. I am however encouraged to venture into this subject because it is possible that some who will read this article, have not read anything else I have written. For these ones, my argument will be new and it will not be a waste of effort after all. Secondly, the subject matter that has triggered this essay is a new one. So, I will basically be employing old thoughts and making them relevant to a new subject. In…

Saturday, 02 April 2022 06:11

Cattle breeders, human butchers and terrorists - Tola Adeniyi

When will this mindless bloodletting stop? When will the mindless expansionist dreamers end their foolish dreams? When will the curse of the Berlin Conference of 1884/85 leave Africans to live their lives? When will the negligible minority who has cornered power and position realize the emptiness of this transient life and allow fellow human beings to spend their brief days on planet Earth in peace? When will mankind submit itself to reasoning and reasonableness? The recurrent disturbing news broke again that the innocent farmers struggling to get mere subsistent living were hacked down, as usual, in Benue state. And the…

Friday, 01 April 2022 05:53

Turning the other cheek for Will Smith - Azu Ishiekwene

One week before Hollywood, Nigeria hosted a different kind of Oscar moment. At the swearing-in ceremony of Charles Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank and new governor of the most commercially significant southeast states, the wife of the outgoing governor, Ebele Obiano, staged an unusual drama. Ebele, Nigeria’s modest answer to Kenya’s tempestuous Lucy Kibaki, floated across the dais to where Bianca Ojukwu Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain was sitting to mockingly question what she was doing at the ceremony after years of being a thorn in the government’s side. What followed wasn’t as pretty as Ebele’s butterfly-sleeved pink…

Friday, 01 April 2022 05:50

Why groomed men should marry nurtured women - Micheal West

By my findings and encounters with some unhappy spouses, it is revealed that not a few of the marital problems in our world these days are largely rooted in poor parenting where half-baked or outright ill-baked men undeservedly married well nurtured women. Likewise, such men have rightly got married to half-baked or wholly ill-trained women like themselves. Our culture harps so much on the upbringing of the daughters right from childhood while the male child enjoys more relaxed space and latitude of options to participate in domestic chores on the excuse that he is a potential future husband and father…

Thursday, 31 March 2022 05:54

The house many had thought would fall... - Bola Bolawole

Against the expectations of many, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) wobbled and fumbled through into a successful – for so it seems for now – national convention last Saturday! The house many had thought would collapse did not after all! APC managed to cobble together a “Unity list” of aspirants for party offices through consensus. President Muhammadu Buhari’s touted candidate, Abdullahi Adamu, emerged as the APC chairman while Iyiola Omisore emerged as the National Secretary. The first consensus national chairman of APC was Bisi Akande, ex-Governor of Osun State and Bola Tinubu’s right-hand man. Akande was followed by ex-Edo…

Thursday, 31 March 2022 05:52

Kaduna attack: Trains are not the progress Nigeria needed - Abimbola Adelakun

On Monday night, terrorists attacked a Kaduna-bound passenger train that left from Abuja. They ambushed the train by detonating some explosives laid on the railway tracks. The violent implosion that followed not only stopped the train in its tracks but also imploded the myth of the progress Nigeria has made under the present regime. So far, eight people are reportedly dead, an undetermined number abducted and others still missing. Considering that there was also an attack on the Kaduna airport on Saturday and a siege laid on Abuja-Kaduna Road on Tuesday, a lot going on now is deeply depressing. The…

Tuesday, 29 March 2022 06:04

Two Ukraine war scenarios and what they mean for US-China power rivalry - Li Xing

There are two competing scenarios that would come out of the current war. The first is that the war would further push the EU towards the US, which would be against Chinese interests. The argument is that the EU has been attempting to keep a balance between its cultural and security alliance with the US, and its economic and trade partnership with China. Beijing’s support for Russia would break such a balance. However, Chinese elites firmly believe that with or without the Ukraine war, China is without doubt the No 1 “systemic rival” that the US is determined to contain,…

Tuesday, 29 March 2022 06:03

Fellow Nigerians, you deserve the punishment - Dele Sobowale

“I am beginning to wonder how many fools it takes to make the term ‘My Fellow Citizens’” – Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, in LOST ILLUSIONS. If you are a Nigerian, who has not lost hope in Buhari, you must either be a damn fool, a liar or a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, or all of the above. A government based on pure conspiracy, headed by an ill-educated leader and powered by frequently lying to itself and the people can produce no other result than what we are experiencing now. By the time Buhari is finished with…

Monday, 28 March 2022 06:23

Negotiating with Putin Is the only way forward - Oscar Arias

As the crisis in Ukraine becomes more acute, so does the need for negotiations. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that Ukraine is “being decimated before the eyes of the world,” with the only reasonable option being “an immediate cessation of hostilities and serious negotiations based on the principles of the UN Charter and international law.” Though there have been talks between Ukraine and Russia, news reports have emphasized their failure to make progress. But make no mistake: a negotiated settlement is the only way forward. Even in seemingly intractable situations with intransigent actors, the power of reason can…

Sunday, 27 March 2022 06:39

At Ife, commonsense takes the back seat - Bola Bolawole

A comrade, Tony Iyare, asked why I had not yet commented on the show of shame, as many have described it, at my - and his - alma mater, the erstwhile University of Ife (established in 1962 but renamed the Obafemi Awolowo University in 1978 in honour of the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, who died on 9th May, 1987). I gave Tony a few reasons. My plate was full. APC/Muhammadu Buhari’s Nigeria, more than at any other time in recent history, is a country where tragedy falls upon tragedy on a daily basis. And as our people would say, when…

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Sunday, 27 March 2022 06:34

Inside the whoredom and harlotry of Nigeria’s 2023 election - Festus Adedayo

In Russia’s 1998 St. Petersburg local assembly elections, incumbent Oleg Sergeyev had been a thorn in the flesh of totalitarian governor, Vladimir Yakovlev. Upon Sergeyev’s launch of his bid to replace him, Yakovlev waited till election date to sting him with his amusingly ingenuous strategy. On voting day, voters, majority of whom were illiterate, were at sea when they found two of their adored candidate’s namesakes on the ballot - Oleg Sergeyev and Oleg Sergeyev. The former was a pensioner and the latter, an unemployed man, both of whom had no qualification for the office they sought but were implanted…

Sunday, 27 March 2022 06:32

Crushing the invisible barriers to breakthrough - Taiwo Akinola

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places ~ Isaiah 45:2-3 Introductions: Becoming familiar with the spiritual nature of life’s obstacles to progress is a wise thing to do if we hope to get onto the paths of meaningful breakthroughs. One wise man rightly said: “if stagnation goes unexamined, breakthrough pays the price”. Obstacles naturally litter the pathways to a good life, and it is…

Sunday, 27 March 2022 06:30

Article of faith: Understanding kingdom dynamics - Femi Aribisala

Christians do not love God. We are not interested in the kingdom of God. Instead, we love life. We love this world. We are lovers of pleasure. We do not want to suffer for Christ’s sake and for the sake of the kingdom of God. We love money, worship money, and serve money. We have idols in our hearts. We want to gain this world and the world to come. We want to have our cake and eat it too. Making godly choices But choices must be made. We either choose life and live, or we choose death and die.…

Friday, 25 March 2022 06:00

Russia: Know the truth and let it set you free - Femi Fani-Kayode

If you insist on talking or writing about the war in the Ukraine kindly get your facts right and do not repeat the one-sided, subjective and monotonous clap trap and fairy tales that CNN and the other international media networks are continuously churning out. Any student of modern history will tell you that the Russians were never the villains when it comes to acts of barbarity committed against sovereign nation states and against the oppresed people of the world. That notorious title goes to the Americans, the Western European nations and their allies. More than any other nation on earth…

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