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Monday, 10 January 2022 05:46

Magodo: Eye-opener on many fronts - Bola Bolawole

Our people have a saying: If you are sent an errand like a slave, deliver it as a free-born. In other words, apply wisdom when running delicate errands. And remember the son or daughter of whom you are - except you lack a worthy pedigree! The Yoruba understand that messengers do find themselves in the dilemma of getting sandwiched between the rock and the hard place. "Yoruba bo, nwon ni" a messenger should fear the one who sent him on an errand and not the person at the receiving end. Don't shy away from your duty but critically consider the…

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:24

Buhari, elo n’koko? - Festus Adedayo

Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari agreed to come out of his cocoon. He granted two interviews between the space of 48 hours, albeit pre-recorded, to Channels TV and the NTA. Since then, the interviews have again provoked discussions on the state of the mind of the president. Upon returning from a seven-week medical trip to the UK in 2017, the mind of the president became a cause for national concern. Since he came into office in 2015, either via covert claim of going to the UK for “a summit and scheduled medical follow-up” or actually seeking leave, ostensibly to meet…

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:23

Buhari should give no more interviews - Farooq A. Kperogi

One of the self-care treats I’ve chosen to indulge in, for my own sanity, is never to torment myself by watching a Muhammadu Buhari interview on television, but a good-natured yet “troublesome” friend of mine for whom I have profound respect never ceases to mischievously tyrannize me by forcing me to watch Buhari’s interviews obviously because he knows that seeing Buhari’s trademark parapraxises and unfailingly disastrous rhetorical incompetence would extract a response from me. It was the friend who first sent me a link to the interview Buhari granted to Channels Television’s Maupe Ogun-Yusuf and Seun Okinbaloye on Thursday. After…

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:21

Open letter to Buhari’s successor on why Nigeria’s energy crisis should be declared an emergency

Dear in-coming President, In 2007, President Umaru Yar’Adua took on the responsibilities of the energy ministry and appointed three junior ministers to support him in the role. Odein Ajumogobia was named junior minister for petroleum, Fatimah Ibrahim for power, and Odusina Emmanuel for gas. Unfortunately, they could not achieve much before Yar'Adua died of illness at a hospital in Saudi Arabia. One good thing about Late Yar'Adua's approach is the merging of petroleum and power ministries, even though he manned the subsections by politicians who were not energy professionals. Really, petroleum and power should never have been separated into different …

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:18

Tapping into the Lord’s glory - Taiwo Akinola

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them ... (John 17:22). Introduction: From glory to glory! That is God’s primordial passion for His Church and for each new creation man upon the earth (Haggai 2:9). The Christian man is God’s House of glory (Isaiah 60:7). Hence, we are outfitted to glow from glory to glory. God’s glory is a big deal in the Bible, and it must be so to all who desire to please God and to experience His glory on earth. Meanwhile, it is quintessential that we understand the subject of God’s glory in order…

Sunday, 09 January 2022 06:17

Article of faith: God did it - Femi Aribisala

When I met the Lord, I became suddenly open to the spirit world. Jesus said to me: “Femi, blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear.” (Matthew 13:16). However, this was double-edged. I could see and hear both the positive and the negative spiritual. After a few months, the pastor in my church came to see me. He had a dream in which the devil was laughing at me, boasting that he would drive me mad. The Lord asked me to wait on Him for three days because He had something to reveal to me.…

Friday, 07 January 2022 06:20

For the Nigerian Left: Facing 2022 - Edwin Madunagu

My difficulties in this discussion began with how to construct a title for it. I could break down what I wanted to say into bits of statements and questions. But I could not agree with myself on how to craft a befitting title for the discussion, even a provisional one, in the manner of many writers. Before finally adopting the title that now appears I had serially considered several alternatives. One of the earliest, the one I loved most, was “Marxism in our time”, which simply lifts the title of Leon Trotsky’s essay written in Mexico in 1939, but titled…

Friday, 07 January 2022 06:18

Akinyemi and the loneliness of exile - Dare Babarinsa

Bolaji Akinyemi, retired professor of political science, who turned 80 on Tuesday, January 4, is a theoretician of power who tries to inhabits his theories. In 1969 after he returned with a doctorate degree in political science from Trinity College, Oxford, he was employed by the University of Lagos to teach political science. While he was a student in the United States, first at Temple University, Philadelphia and later Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, he was a member of a student delegation that visited the White House where he had the rare photo opportunity with the young President John F. Kennedy.…

Friday, 07 January 2022 06:16

The story of the siege on Magodo - Azu Ishiekwene

This is a local story and it’s personal. I’m involved. And because I’m involved, I thought the best way to tell it is to hear it from persons who have a more intimate knowledge of the story; those who have lived in Magodo Shangisha GRA Scheme II, Lagos, for well over two decades. The three respondents, the first of whom is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, have asked that their names should not be used. I’ll simply describe them as Respondents I, II and III. Keep in mind as you read this, that land title in a Government Reserved Area…

Thursday, 06 January 2022 06:22

Administration of justice in changing technological environment: Matters arising - Bola Bolawole

This is not just the age of technology; it is an age when technological advancements make giant strides by the day. Some nations set the pace; others do the catching up but some lag behind in perpetuity. There are producers of technology - who smile to the bank with every technological innovation they unleash on the world - but there are also the perennial consumers of technology – who pay through their nose to acquire the latest innovations that define our modern world. Technological advancement has become so pervasive that it has invaded every facet of life; the hallowed chambers…

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Tuesday, 04 January 2022 06:26

For Desmond Mpilo Tutu - Niyi Osundare

The stars lament his passing From Soweto’s seething streets to Bora BoraKings, Queens, and Presidents flood the sky With tributes and purple garlands There goes a man In whose middling physical frameThrobbed a giant heart. Prophet who divined One complex rainbow in a land Ripped a-p-a-r-t by the colour creed He saw the Buddha in his BibleThe fallow intersection between The Cross and the Crescent The Healing Wisdom of Orunmila* Whose universe is a house with a thousand rooms,His metaphor came from the sky That looming umbrella above our common heads Truth and Reconciliation Reconciliation without Truth?When a savaged country…

Monday, 03 January 2022 06:13

The rites of New Year’s resolutions - Bola Bolawole

Practically everyone makes New Year’s resolutions at this period of the season - that is, towards the end of a closing year and the beginning of a new one. I made my own New Year resolutions for the “Triple T" year of Twenty Twenty-Two (2022) a fortnight ago. I have often made New Year resolutions but my degree of success has often varied. How about you? Many people follow the tradition of New Year's resolutions for the fun of it. Others do it because they see others do so. It is doubtful if many know the origin or full import…

Monday, 03 January 2022 06:12

Banditry and our quest for leadership - Hassan Gimba

I wanted to continue with my treatise on the Rule of Law as our only panacea for survival when a clarion call by governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, caught my attention. It might have come as a shock to many when Masari called on people of his state to arm themselves, rise, and confront bandits to defend themselves. He lamented that security officials alone cannot tackle insecurity in the state. Masari’s state, like other northwest and northcentral states of Zamfara, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna and Kogi, has witnessed incessant attacks by bandits linked to the dreaded Boko Haram…

Sunday, 02 January 2022 06:19

2022: Year to get back our country - Festus Adedayo

Even in the grips of hopelessness, it will still be suicidal for a nation to be hopeless. This will seem to be the situation with Nigeria as she meandered into a new year yesterday. Same yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari was at the shrine to offer the rituals of a new year. In his 2022 New Year message, Buhari read the prepared words of those trained in the art of suasion. He reeled into evocative statistics, grand and very persuasive efforts of his government to tackle insecurity and rev the economy. Buhari called on Nigerians to welcome 2022 with hope and…

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