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Friday, 25 March 2022 05:59

Ebele’s diary and other unforgettable First Ladies - Azu Ishiekwene

I thought there was a mistake. The headline said Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain and wife of Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca, slapped the outgoing First Lady of Anambra State, Ebele Obiano. In my head, however, the news read differently. This was not the sort of thing you would associate with Bianca, a former ambassador and beauty queen. In spite of what I was reading as the news broke, I told myself that the reality was the other way round: Ebele Obiano must have slapped Bianca Ojukwu. If you know Ebele, you will know why in spite of the news, it is…

Monday, 21 March 2022 11:17

For Bene Madunagu at 75 - Edwin Madunagu

[This is a revised and updated version of the tribute I paid the subject five years ago, on March 21, 2017 when she became 70 years old. Although she has since then lived largely in retirement and ill-health, she has nonetheless done a number of things - directly and indirectly, alone and in combination with others - that now contribute significantly in defining the essence of her entire adult life. The most significant of these “things” is offered as an Update in the closing paragraphs of this edition.] Our subject is known officially, especially in the academic world, as Professor…

Monday, 21 March 2022 06:29

Which way Nigeria: Restructuring before election or election without restructuring? - Bola Bolawole

The agitation for restructuring has been one of the most important political topics in Nigeria in recent years: To be or not to be? When and how? In what form and to what extent? The arguments for and against restructuring apart, the politics surrounding it has brought out the devils in some of our politicians as they approbate and reprobate at the same time, disowning today what they had affirmed yesterday, knowing and at the same time not knowing! What is restructuring: fiscal, physical, geographical or what-have-you? How, if any, does restructuring differ from self-determination? True federalism, fiscal federalism, confederation…

Sunday, 20 March 2022 06:30

Between Wike’s temper and Anambra’s valedictory slaps - Festus Adedayo

In the final analysis, it will appear that the Nigerian political elite, adept as it is at plundering Nigerian resources and inflicting pain on the people, it has very scant understanding of the psychology of the people it pillages. A very true story that will succinctly demonstrate this happened in Ondo State, about 1990. Olabode Ibiyinka George, Commodore in the Nigerian Navy, had been posted to the state as governor in 1988. As is customary, in tow did he come with his wife, Feyi, a very self-opinionated woman. Unsubstantiated claims alleged that both were on the verge of divorce before…

Sunday, 20 March 2022 06:29

The bliss and the dilemma of personal choices - Taiwo Akinola

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live ~ Deuteronomy 30:19. Introduction: Excellence in life is all about trade secrets. The more you trade with them, the more excellent you become. All who hope, therefore, to enjoy secure access to a lifeline of breakthrough and fulfillment on earth must enthusiastically search out noble Biblical secrets, and especially engage them in their day-to-day living (Deuteronomy 29:29). God’s kingdom principles constitute the major keys in the…

Sunday, 20 March 2022 06:27

Article of faith: Contradictions that do not contradict (3) - Femi Aribisala

Take a look at the blunder that Martin Luther made after reading Paul’s statement that nothing shall separate us from the love of God. (Romans 8:38-39). Luther says: “Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your faith in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. This life is not a place where righteousness can exist. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery a thousand times each day.” This is nothing but a devilish statement from a so-called…

Saturday, 19 March 2022 17:59

Russia-Ukraine war: Is Zelensky a hero or is he deluded? - Femi Fani-Kayode

I deplore and condemn the barbaric killings and vicious barbarism that have been unleashed against a mainly defenceless and helpless civilian population in the Ukraine. Yet the bitter truth is that all that President Volodymyr Zelensky has to do to stop the relentless slaughter of his people is to state clearly and categorically that the Ukraine will NEVER join NATO, that the Ukraine will NEVER allow foreign military bases on her soil and that the Ukraine will MAINTAIN neutrality like Sweden and Finland. He also has to allow the Russian-speaking people of Donesk and Eastern Ukraine to exercise their right…

Saturday, 19 March 2022 11:56

Ukraine and the Bucharest Memorandum - Femi Mimiko

So much is being made of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which formed the basis of divesting Ukraine of its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees for the former Soviet republic. It was negotiated by US, UK, Russia and Ukraine - in conformity with the nuclear non-proliferation principle. The February 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine by Moscow is, in several quarters, now being touted as tantamount to a violation of the sanctity of the Memorandum. A note of analysis and caution on this. First, the Budapest Memorandum was negotiated and adopted within a specific context. The nuclear arsenal stationed…

Friday, 18 March 2022 06:16

Gosh! My associates and successors are dying… - Tola Adeniyi

I will not start with the departure, 14 years ago, of Femi Sonaike; age-mate [May 29, June 3], town-mate, classmate, same profession, same height, Best man to each other at weddings 2-weeks apart, one extroverted and the other introverted. Neither will I go back to this day 10 years ago when my friend, the extraordinarily gregarious Golf-enthusiast Oluwole Olumide [who I believe was murdered March 16, 2012] forcibly commenced his journey in the Continuum. Tears for the two had dried up…only reminiscences. Of recent were the passages of UK-based Ademola Adenuga, retired Dept Permanent Secretary and humour merchant Gbolabo Ogunsanwo,…

Friday, 18 March 2022 06:12

Triumph of the ‘yahoo-yahoo’ governors - Azu Ishiekwene

In the midst of our current misery, Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu thought we needed something to cheer last week, so he offered a joke, which was telling and disturbing. In the row between the Governor of Yobe and interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mai Mala Buni, and governors who wanted to overthrow him, Akeredolu, who was on the side of the protagonists, reached into the gutter for words to describe his enemies. He plumbed the depths, far below the sepsis reached by the sarcasm of Salihu Lukman, the former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum,…

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Friday, 18 March 2022 06:10

Stop dating for wrong reasons - Michael West

Dating is a prelude to marriage for adults. It is otherwise known as courtship but because some engaged adults don't really want to settle down, they remain in dating for as long as it serves their purposes and interests. Not many people realise that dating without a purpose is time wasting and an euphemism for romantic adventure. A focused relationship is what makes adults responsible and accountable for their lifetime and resources. Going by the prevailing situation around us, there're quite a number of people, women in particular, that are going through some hard and unpleasant situations in their relationships.…

Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:07

The Redeemed Christian Church of God should ignore critics - Abimbola Adelakun

Nothing says how cynical people have grown toward the church in recent times better than the response that greeted the Redeemed Christian Church of God’s decision to be more directly involved in the 2023 electioneering. The RCCG’s internal memo—where they noted they would coordinate their members going into politics and mobilise support for them—that circulated online could not have been any more innocent. Yet, it was met with an adverse reaction by those who concluded the church wants to use its broad network to mobilise support for one of their members, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who might run as president.…

Tuesday, 15 March 2022 06:13

Why Putin invaded Ukraine - Bola Bolawole

The Russia/Ukraine war still rages; efforts at negotiations, ceasefire, and cessation of hostilities have floundered. Needless pains and suffering continued to be inflicted on the hapless. Precious lives are lost on a daily basis. What is the way out? Will sanctions work eventually to hobble Russia and cripple its war efforts? Is the no-flying zone demanded by the Ukrainian president from its Western allies, but which those ones are afraid to give, the solution? Strafed by Russia, will Ukraine collapse and surrender very soon? Or, exasperated, will any of the combatants escalate this crisis to a full-blown Third World War?…

Monday, 14 March 2022 06:11

Here’s why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis - John Mearsheimer

The war in Ukraine is the most dangerous international conflict since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Understanding its root causes is essential if we are to prevent it from getting worse and, instead, to find a way to bring it to a close. There is no question that Vladimir Putin started the war and is responsible for how it is being waged. But why he did so is another matter. The mainstream view in the West is that he is an irrational, out-of-touch aggressor bent on creating a greater Russia in the mould of the former Soviet Union. Thus, he…

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