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Sunday, 20 February 2022 06:18

Anointed for good deeds - Taiwo Akinola

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor …. and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised ~ Luke 4:18. Introduction: Touching lives with the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ sometimes looks very easy, but it is not always so. You definitely need Someone bigger than you — the Holy Spirit Himself — to excel in the spiritual arts of doing good and touching other lives for God on earth! Quite unfortunately, many people remain oblivious of this…

Sunday, 20 February 2022 06:16

Article of faith: From faith to faith - Femi Aribisala

All men are born blind. Even those of us who can see are also blind. We think we can see because we see natural things. But, in reality, we are blind because we cannot see spiritual things. Spiritual things, of course, are far superior to natural things because God is spirit. The irony here is that those physically blind can circumstantially be better off than those who have natural eyesight. They may be blind naturally but can see spiritually, while those who can see naturally may be blind spiritually. Blind Bartimaeus Bartimaeus was naturally blind, but he recognised Jesus as…

Friday, 18 February 2022 06:11

Where’s the coup next? - Azu Ishiekwene

There's a severe, earth-baking drought in the Horn of Africa. About 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti are in the grip of acute hunger. The rains have failed in three consecutive years, prompting the driest conditions experienced in the region in 41 years. This ought to be one of the heaviest burdens on the minds of African leaders: how the continent can rally support and assistance for people in that region. At the moment, it is not. It’s just another item on the news left for the World Food Programme under the United Nations and the international…

Friday, 18 February 2022 06:09

‘My hubby is lazy, I want to quit!’ - Michael West

The reality is staring at us in the face about complicated marital issues bedeviling many homes these days. In the ages gone by, divorce was nearly a taboo. It was like a stigma which was considered a dent on the family name and as an aberration against the conjugal institution. Beyond sexual immorality as a ground for divorce, today, the reality is that other issues like physical and verbal assaults, domestic violence, neglect, nagging, hot jealousy, bitterness, infidelity and acts of irresponsibility as well as frustrating one’s purpose or vision are recurring factors that engender increasing cases of divorce. Society…

Friday, 18 February 2022 06:06

The risk of nuclear disaster in Ukraine - Bennett Ramberg

Russia’s large-scale military mobilization on Ukraine’s border has grim historic precedents. But should the Kremlin pull the trigger, it will encounter a hazard that no invading army has ever faced before: 15 nuclear power reactors, which generate roughly 50% of Ukraine’s energy needs at four sites. The reactors present a daunting specter. If struck, the installations could effectively become radiological mines. And Russia itself would be a victim of the ensuing wind-borne radioactive debris. Given the vulnerability of Ukraine’s nuclear reactors and the human and environmental devastation that would follow if combat were to damage them, Russian President Vladimir Putin…

Thursday, 17 February 2022 06:29

Of the politics of ‘bad belle’ and ‘bad blood’ - Bola Bolawole

It was in April 2021 and the occasion would ordinarily have been innocuous but for the fact that the star actor was former two-time Head of State and newsmaker par excellence, Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo was being inaugurated as a trustee of the Abeokuta Club. Abeokuta, specifically Owu or, better still, Ibogun-Olaogun, is the generally-recognised birthplace of Obasanjo. Headlined “MKO Abiola: Why IBB cancelled 1993 election” a news medium reported the story this way: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has insinuated that former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), cancelled the June 12, 1993 election presumably won by MKO Abiola due to…

Thursday, 17 February 2022 06:19

Abba Kyari owes Nigeria more than the USA - Abimbola Adelakun

Since the report of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari’s alleged involvement in a drug ring hit the airwaves on Monday, the question of whether he will be extradited to the United States of America to face justice for pending infractions has also resurfaced. About nine months ago, Federal Bureau of Investigation had declared Kyari wanted over his association with internet fraudster Ramon Abbass (aka Hushpuppi). Kyari was alleged to have (ab)used the instruments of the state entrusted to him by privately punishing Hushpuppi’s criminal associates. Kyari was suspended from duty and is being investigated by a panel set…

Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:16

Osun and the Cup Final of political feuds - Bamidele Johnson

An accident waiting to happen? Perhaps. What is certain is that unless a quick resolution is found, the Aregbesola-Tinubu fall-out will deliver industrial-scale carnage. Hints of that have already manifested, with Aregbesola peeling off his dansiki or agbada, so to speak, to launch the first public offensive via a stream of words that cannot be filed under praise and worship. The riposte to that, as claimed by those in Osun, particularly Aregbesola partisans, was a rain of bullets on the Interior Minister's convoy. This feels different, very different, because Bola Tinubu and Aregbesola, publicly at least, have always sung from…

Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:13

Practical alternatives to ASUU’s overused strike weapon - Olarinre Salako

On Monday February 14, 2022, Nigerian Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was reported to have resolved to go on yet another strike. This will be a “one-month comprehensive and total strike to compel the Nigerian government to accede to our requests,” several national newspapers and online media reported ASUU to have said. Nigerians by now know the problems with the public university education and why ASUU has been perennially fighting to solve the problems. I will address these problems in the course of suggesting the solutions shortly. What Nigerians also know is that ASUU has consistently used ONLY ONE…

Monday, 14 February 2022 12:43

Techno-optimism and the rule-of-threes: Why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing

Mark Mills Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen. KEY TAKEAWAYSMaturing technologies in the realms of information, machines, and materials are paving the way toward an explosion in human progress and productivity. In this excerpt from the book The Cloud Revolution, Mark Mills describes how "overnight success" stories like the iPhone are actually built upon previous technologies, which themselves often took decades to develop. Ultimately, technological revolutions of the kind we are now experiencing bring greater per capita wealth, improved health and well-being,…

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Monday, 14 February 2022 06:09

Ekiti: APC, PDP primaries of controversies (2) - Bola Bolawole

On June 1, 2018, there was pandemonium (“b’oolo, yaa’mi) at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ado-Ekiti as a chieftain of the party, Opeyemi Bamidele, was accidentally shot by a policeman at a rally organised by the APC; the rally was to welcome Kayode Fayemi, its governorship candidate in the July 14, 2018 Ekiti State governorship election, to the state after his resignation from the Federal Executive Council where he had been the Minister of Mines and Steel Development. The shooting took place at the APC secretariat in Ajilosun, Ado-Ekiti. Opeyemi was a sitting member of the House of…

Monday, 14 February 2022 05:58

The West must accept reality in Ukraine - Nancy Qian

The buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine’s border has led to fears of a new war. But the conflict is hardly new, and nor are Russia’s objectives. Ukraine, which has been indirectly controlled or directly repressed by Moscow-based governments for centuries, wants NATO to protect it from future Russian incursions, like the one the Kremlin launched in 2014. But Russian President Vladimir Putin is demandingthat NATO promise not to expand into any more Eastern European countries that border Russia (which already shares a border with five NATO members). NATO, led by the United States, is refusing Putin’s demand on the…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:23

Sofiat’s murder and our booming human body parts market - Festus Adedayo

With the shock, anger and general revulsion that followed the gruesome killing of 20-year-old Sofiat Kehinde, allegedly perpetrated by her boyfriend and three of his accomplices in Oke-Aregba, Itoko-Tuntun, Idi-Ape in Abeokuta, Ogun State on January 29, 2022, an end ought to have naturally come to our naivety about the pestilence that ritual killings for money has become among us. Or oughtn’t it? Only yesterday, in same Abeokuta, in an area called Leme, 43 year-old Kehinde Oladimeji and his wife, Adejumoke Raji, were arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for being in possession of fresh human breasts,…

Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:21

Fresh anointing for fresh glory - Taiwo Akinola

But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil ~ Psalm 92:10. Introduction: Yesterday’s win won’t qualify you for today’s trophy, and yesterday’s anointing won’t be sufficient in the face of today’s challenges. We all need fresh anointing for every new day, if we are to enjoy the freshness of God’s glory. God’s age-long desire and primordial passion is to fill the earth with His power, glory, splendor, beauty, excellency, life and love (Numbers 14:21; Habakkuk 2:14). This divine desire is realizable only through the children of God. Hence, the…

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