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Friday, 02 July 2021 05:56

Ataga and the woman in the mirror - Azu Ishiekwene

In one of my early journalism classes, my teacher, Olatunji Dare, said nothing sells like a judicious mix of crime, sex and money. It’s well over 35 years since he said those words and yet they ring true like yesterday.For over one week now, the country has been riveted on the tragic story of the murder of Michael Usifo Ataga, the CEO of Super TV, a Lagos-based content company. The heart-rending episode appears to have an injudicious mix of all three ingredients that Dare spoke about in one crime scene.It’s a deeply tragic and troubling tale that has produced emergency…

Friday, 02 July 2021 05:55

Chidinma: Nemesis of sugar daddies, parental failure - Michael West

This generation of youths are in danger of self-immolation. This is due to their flagrant indulgence in immoral lifestyle such as drug abuse, prostitution, cultism, financial crimes, armed robbery and Yahoo plus which is euphemism for money rituals. Many of them have become wayward, obfuscate, nonchalant, irreverent, daredevil, unpredictable, heartless, drug and sex addicts, killers, grossly pretentious and sacrilegiously rebellious. The last one week has been a shocking one in the country over the gruesome killing of a man, Usifo Ataga, said to be a billionaire and proprietor of Super TV. The incident has since dominated the media space and…

Thursday, 01 July 2021 05:47

The Chidinma conundrum - Bola Bolawole

“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon the rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wiped her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness” – Proverbs 30: 19 & 20. As the Acting Deputy Editor charged with the editing of the Sunday PUNCH in the early 1990s, I travelled to Katsina…

Wednesday, 30 June 2021 05:38

Next Level is self-destruction with Twitter - Dele Sobowale

“The rate of change in our time is so swift; that an individual of ordinary length of life will be called on to face novel situations which have no parallel in the past. The fixed person for the fixed duties, who in the old society was such a God-send, will, in the future, be a public danger” – Alfred N Whitehead, 1861-1947. The rate of change before 1947, which Whitehead called “so swift”, would today be regarded as standing still. He died two years after World War II ended. During that war, the earliest reports of combat would reach the…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:46

How colonialism’s legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today - Patrick Greiner

While fossil fuels were powering wealthy nations’ economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, many countries across the Global South remained largely impoverished. Today, all that burning of oil, coal and natural gas has warmed the planet toward dangerous levels, and science shows that fossil fuel use must decline to slow climate change. At the same time, more than 40% of the global population survives on less than US$5.50 a day, primarily in developing countries. Fossil fuels are still among the cheapest ways to power economic growth, making them hard for developing countries to ignore. So, can we find…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 05:38

The G7 vaccine charade - James K. Galbraith

In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s “first big test … lies in what America does to help vaccinate the rest of the world against COVID-19.” And Power herself is quoted as saying that, “It’s about a very, very tangible, results-oriented agenda.” Results seemed to follow. At the G7 summit, Goldberg duly reports, Biden announced that the US would contribute 500 million vaccine doses for use in “low- and middle-income countries.” According to Goldberg,…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:50

The TB Joshua I knew... (II) - Bola Bolawole

Prophet T also tried to match-make for me at the Synagogue. One day as we were in his sitting room, he sent for a lady; the lady came and knelt down at his feet. I cannot remember what they discussed but after she left, Prophet T turned to me and said “Se e like lady yen?” (Do you like that lady?). According to him, she was a good girl. By this time a bonding had developed between Prophet T and me; so I actually gave his proposition a thought. The next day on my way to the Synagogue, I muted…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:49

The fear-mongering and misinformation around Covid vaccines - Taiwo Maxwell Adeyemi

When the Covid-19 pandemic started in late 2019, there was an uneasy calm across the globe. Eeventually the unseen enemy reached our shores in early 2020 and subsequently the World Health Organization [WHO] announced a global pandemic. What followed on social and mainstream media was a barrage of information, misinformation, scientific news, conspiracy theories, truths, lies, good, bad and ugly pieces of write ups and videos in a concoction that are daily consumed by discerning as well as gullible persons all around the world. As we speak, there is still much information released especially on social media that is toxic,…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:48

In Bitcoin we trust? - Paola Subacchi

Many regard the market for Bitcoin – the world’s leading cryptocurrency – as a game of winners and losers played out among hedge funds, amateur investors, geeks, and criminals. The huge risk inherent in a highly volatile anonymous digital currency is best left to those who understand the game well, or who don’t really care because they can mitigate the risk or absorb any losses. But Bitcoin recently has become more attractive for countries and individuals with limited access to conventional payment systems – that is, those least equipped to manage the underlying risk. Earlier this month, El Salvador became…

Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:06

Bewitching Chidinma and this Water Bottle generation - Festus Adedayo

Chidinma Ojukwu is beautiful, enchanting and voluptuous. No wonder predominant comments – especially from men-folk – on this 21-year old self-confessed killer of Lagos-based 50-year old Usifo Ataga, CEO of Super TV, are wrapped in the poser: was she a lethal, destructive woman the French call the femme fatale, or victim of a delinquent higher institution girls’ sex trade that turned awry? The story of Chidinma, student of the University of Lagos, which is trending on the social media radar at the moment, is riveting. It is a perfect script for a crime fiction thriller. She courted massive traffic to…

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Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:05

Total deliverance on Mount Zion (3) - Taiwo Akinola

When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him ~ Mark 9:25. Introduction: The ministry of casting out demons is a present day ministry of the Holy Spirit. It is a kingdom normal, so to speak. Jesus vigorously engaged Himself in it, and He also commanded His disciples to do so (Matthew 10:1, 8). You cannot counsel or medicate demons. When an issue is demonic, deliverance is the only solution. Jesus knew this! That…

Sunday, 27 June 2021 06:03

Article of faith: Don’t worry about a thing - Femi Aribisala

In the 1990s, I owned a profitable chain of video-rental shops. Early on, I got the business computerised. Nevertheless, I lived in constant fear that suddenly, without warning, the system would break down, leading to loss of valuable data and income. One day, the very thing I feared came upon me: The system broke down. Worst of all, it happened in my most profitable shop in Victoria Island. I tried all the different “fixes” prescribed by the program manual but to no avail. After a while, somebody put on a children’s Christian video, and, at the end of my wits,…

Friday, 25 June 2021 05:55

A president’s ‘missing’ iPad and other perils - Azu Ishiekwene

Awkward moments are human, and hardly call attention when mere mortals are involved. But when the high and mighty trip, they make the headlines. Both experts and lay people sometimes feel obliged to ask if such awkward moments may not indeed, like Freudian slip, mean more than meets the eye. And quite often their suspicions are right. Take former US President, Donald Trump, for example. In his four-year Presidency, awkwardness was not occasional accident, it was the defining thing, the essential Trump. From telling the wife of French President Brigitte Macron that she was “in good shape”, to tossing paper…

Friday, 25 June 2021 05:54

Requiems for dads as widows adjust, enjoy - Michael West

Last Sunday's celebration of Father's Day, to every man, was a reminder of the stark reality of emptiness and vanity of life. In appreciating and celebrating responsible fathers, many people, men in particular, took to their social media platforms to write or share posts that depicted the mood of men in sober reflection on their lives, their labour and why they die rather "early" comparatively. They live and toil for the survival of their families, provide for the needs of their dependants and be there for their loved ones, friends and the society, but not many care about them. More…

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