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Thursday, 31 October 2024 04:37

Bayo Onanuga battles yet another media - Abimbola Adelakun

When you finally read The Guardian editorial that drew the ire of presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga, you cannot help but wonder at his overreaction. For a Presidency that forged its path to power through journalistic propaganda, these people are too jumpy when they encounter media reports they consider unflattering. Even before being sworn into power, Onanuga had started gaming regulatory agencies against the media house that refused to drool before their almighty presence. An egregious instance was the NBC imposition of a N5m fine on Channelsat their prompting. If the court had not put paid to that nonsense, that is…

Wednesday, 30 October 2024 05:13

Why BAT is successfully inflicting pain on Nigerians - Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf

Never have Nigerians experienced hardship, suffering and pain as they did under President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) and are now doing under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (PBAT) General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) lay a solid foundation of the current crises. He imposed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in July 1986, contrary to popular opposition. President Shehu Shagari of the Second Republic and General Muhammadu Buhari’s military administration had stubbornly resisted the implementation of SAP, especially the devaluation of the naira, despite intense pressures by President Ronald Reagan of the United States. Both were…

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 04:42

‘Do you know who I am?’ We do, infact! - Seun Kolade

That was the refrain from a certain Alex Ikwechegh, the Nigerian legislator representing Aba North & South Federal Constituency, as he repeatedly rained slaps and insults on Bolt delivery man, Stephen Abuwatseya, who had gone to deliver a parcel to the federal lawmaker. A lot is packed into that exchange, at the heart of which is a simple truth: the Nigerian political class disdains the average citizen, treats law enforcement officers as houseboys, and revels in impunity, in the confident assurance that nothing will happen. Well, something is happening in this fellow’s case, but it is not what you think.…

Monday, 28 October 2024 04:42

Wiked judges and Nyesomised courts - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“A Judge shall avoid developing excessively close relationship with frequent litigants – such as government ministers or their officials, municipal officials, police prosecutors in any Court where the Judge often sits, if such relationship could reasonably create an appearance of partiality.” Rule 2.8, Revised Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers in Nigeria (2016) Sylvanus Nsofor was a little known Justice of the Court of Appeal when he breathed oxygen into Muhammadu Buhari’s political aspirations with his dissent in the presidential election petition in 2007. Eight years earlier, he had launched a unique career in the history of political litigation in…

Sunday, 27 October 2024 04:35

The Guardian’s dog and rape of Lady Justice - Festus Adedayo

As I was concluding this piece, my eyes caught a presidential sledgehammer which landed on the head of Conscience Nurtured by Truth – The Guardian. In a release issued by the State House yesterday, authored by erstwhile Editor-in-Chief of TheNews, Bayo Onanuga, the newspaper was accused of a crime almost similar to what General Sani Abacha accused it of in 1994 which led to its closure. The “NADECO government” of Bola Tinubu merely rehashed the allegation. I will address it presently. All over the world, the Lady Justice is sacred, representing the divine order, law, and custom. It is also…

Sunday, 27 October 2024 04:33

Rendering effective and rewardable services unto God - Taiwo Akinola

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord ~ 1 Corinthians 15:58. Preamble: Joyous accomplishments in God’s kingdom belong only to those who effectively labour in the fields of divine services, not to idle talkers who never get round to accomplishing anything for God, nor to armchair critics who relish badmouthing achievers and pointing accusing fingers to where the doers of good deeds got it wrong. Mere talk is cheap, and any idle mind can easily find free…

Sunday, 27 October 2024 04:32

Article of Faith: Paying the price (1) - Femi Aribisala

Have you ever been to an expensive wedding that was a no-holds-barred affair? I am talking about that wedding in which a fortune was spent. The champagne was ordered custom-made from France. The wedding cake was a three-story building. Forget about the wedding but tell me, what happened to the marriage? One year later, they got divorced. What a waste of money. All that expenditure went up in smoke. You did not know that the best man was a divorce lawyer. Have you not noticed that the rich tend to be more security-conscious than others? Why is that? They have…

Friday, 25 October 2024 04:54

Nigeria: Three stories, one message - Azu Ishiekwene

Three – maybe three and a half – stories go to the heart of why Nigeria appears stuck in a rut. And for some strange reason, all of them are rooted mainly in energy and power. The first is about a project, the Mambilla Hydroelectric Project. If you live in Nigeria – except you’re the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu – there’s a good chance you would have heard about this project, which is located in Gembu, Taraba State. In that case, there’s a chance you might also have heard that the national power grid, more in the news for…

Thursday, 24 October 2024 04:42

Wike’s war on beggars - Abimbola Adelakun

Each time another minister of the FCT declares yet another war on the beggars in the nation’s capital, I am reminded of Aminata Sow Fall’s famous novel, The Beggars’ Strike. The plot is built around a government that wants to get beggars off the streets so they can effectively promote tourism. The task of ridding the city of beggars falls on Mour Ndiaye, the Director of the Department of Public Health and Hygiene. He develops interest in the post of the vice-president of the country and consults a marabout who tells him he would need to give charity to beggars…

Thursday, 24 October 2024 04:40

Achieving development by treating economic sabotage and corruption as treason - Justice Faloye

The current severe economic crisis suffered by millions of Nigerians was caused by series of increase petrol prices and fall in Naira value, and which led to the fall in real wages and general devaluation of life, can be traced to the actions of a few against Nigeria’s economic interests. This continued sabotage of the energy sectors and economy in general shouldn't be trivialized as corruption but economic treason. Former President Goodluck Jonathan made a distinction between stealing and corruption when he said good accounting systems can reduce outright stealing but corruption is more difficult to curb. We have been…

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Wednesday, 23 October 2024 04:43

Analysing historical accuracy in Lateef Adedimeji’s biopic, Lisabi: The uprising - Yinka Kareem

Introduction According to the Cambridge Dictionary (2024), a biopic is “a film about the life of a real person”. Abreu (2024) points out that “The most obvious way a biopic differentiates itself is in how accurate it is to the subject’s history” (StudioBinder). However, to know how truthful a biopic is to history is to discuss its historical representation concerning the history of its subject and the period in which the subject lived or is living. An analysis of the historical representation in Lisabi: The Uprisingexamines how the film, as a biopic, accurately depicts the history of Lisabi, who liberated…

Tuesday, 22 October 2024 04:53

‘The road to serfdom’ - Uddin Ifeanyi

Mark Manson (“Every Thing Is F*cked”), argues that “For every action, there is an equal and opposite emotional reaction.” From this vantage, the response of the “State House” to some Nigerians taking to calling President Bola Tinubu “T-Pain” was to be expected. The cease-and-desist warning issued by the state house, last week, was itself, unwittingly, from a position of pain. It gave vent to the federal government’s discomfort that despite the president’s best intentions for the country, and his best efforts (remember that so tired was he from these efforts that he only just returned to work from a furlough)…

Monday, 21 October 2024 04:42

Theresa Chikeka: The retired judge who is chief judge of Imo State? - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The judicial career of Francis Chukwuma Abosi was supposed to last only seven years. In the event, he did 12 and may well have reached 20 years if events had not intervened. In his 12th year as a judge in April 2020, while serving as the Acting President of the Customary Court of Appeal of Imo State in South-East Nigeria, the National Judicial Council (NJC) mercifully ended it all. When he attended the Nigerian Law School, as all Nigerian lawyers must, Francis Abosi deposed that he was born in November 1950. On his appointment as a judge in 2008, therefore,…

Sunday, 20 October 2024 04:52

The President is a sick man - Festus Adedayo

On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’ It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk and off-the-cuff jetting out of Aso Rock Villa like a wandering evil spirit. At the drop of a hat, Buhari flew to the United Kingdom to attend to his health. But for the removal of Buhari’s name and its substitution with ‘Bola Tinubu,’ this piece is almost a complete cyclostyle of that Buhari piece. In 1849, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a French writer, pioneered a phrase which has become…

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