Ns-Opinion

Opinion

Sunday, 21 July 2024 04:42

Creating a conducive atmosphere for God’s intervention - Taiwo Akinola

And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi …. And straightway the damsel arose ~ Mark 5:39-42. Introduction Every good thing that has ever happened in your life happened because something changed.…

Sunday, 21 July 2024 04:40

Article of Faith: The relative and the absolute marriage - Femi Aribisala

I wrote a book entitled: Why Christians Won’t Go to Heaven. Some Christians complained that my book is too absolute. They said I should have written: “Why Some Christians Won’t Go to Heaven.” No, I replied. I mean no Christian will go to heaven. Christianity is not a criterion for heaven. Then, I wrote an article entitled “Christians Make Terrible Husbands.” Some self-righteous Christian husbands shot back saying I should have said: “Some Christian Make Terrible Husbands.” No! No! No! I mean “all Christian husbands.” God’s prophetic word is appropriately expressed in absolute terms. Jesus says: “The sons of the…

Friday, 19 July 2024 04:53

In this difficult marriage, Democrats must love Biden - Azu Ishiekwene

The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13 at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania has sucked the oxygen from the debate on President Joe Biden’s fitness for a second term. The discussion will resurface, but Democrats should forget it. The party is stuck with Biden. The odds are daunting. It must feel like a difficult marriage heading for a shipwreck. However, with only four months to the election, facing the odds is the only way to overcome them. Expectedly, Biden doubled down on his decision to run after the presidential debate with Trump left the president looking…

Thursday, 18 July 2024 04:43

Primate Henry Ndukuba at 63: A cat with nine lives - Folu Olamiti

It is another special day for our energetic and spiritual father, the Archbishop Metropolitan and Primate of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion Most Revd Henry Chukudum Ndukuba, as he turns another year tot 18 July 2024. From his humble beginning at Ogberuru in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, and through his 63 years on mother earth, he has passed through the ups and downs of this world. Indeed, but for the big God who is always by his side, he would have been long forgotten. Sampler: during his early pastoral duties at Gombe, he had all his…

Tuesday, 16 July 2024 04:32

Where will the AI super cycle lead? - Dambisa Moyo

The current pace of advances in generative artificial intelligence makes it difficult to forecast how the technology will affect the economy, business, and society. Nonetheless, it already seems clear that the new AI applications will produce a narrow cohort of winners and lead to a smaller workforce, confronting governments with big policy challenges. Consider how AI will affect the three key components of growth: capital, labour, and productivity. In terms of capital, the massive volume of investment required to power AI innovations ensures that there will be a smaller, more concentrated set of winners. Big Tech firms with monopolies in…

Monday, 15 July 2024 05:05

Rule by judges is not rule of law - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“The judiciary has immense power. In the nature of things, judges cannot be democratically accountable for their decisions. It therefore matters very much that their role should be regarded as legitimate by the public at large.” – Jonathan Sumption, Law in a Time of Crisis, 121 (2021) For a cumulative period of 17 years between 1885 and 1905, Hardinge Giffard – who was better known as Lord Halsbury – served three tenures as Lord Chancellor. In this capacity he earned a reputation for having “appointed many undistinguished men to the Bench because of their political services to the Conservative Party.”…

Sunday, 14 July 2024 03:59

Ajibola Ogunshola: Triumph of the non-newspaperman - Azu Ishiekwene

I’ve written this before. Ten years ago, but this man's story is new every time. To me. And to many who have crossed his path. On his 80th birthday on July 14, I’m repeating this story with the zeal and delight I shared it ten years ago: If the lot had fallen on Ajibola Ogunshola to be the undertaker, not many would have blamed him for the fate of PUNCH. He was 40 when he was appointed director. Though he was a star in the insurance world (former Managing Director of Niger Insurance) and one of Africa's leading actuaries (a…

Sunday, 14 July 2024 03:57

Ministering to Maalu with 774 heads - Festus Adedayo

The Iloko, offspring of Arelu, (Iloko Omo Arelu) are held in awe in Yorubaland. For a people who fought one another in internecine wars that began in 1793 and lasted for almost a century, Yoruba give effusion of reverences to people with unusual bravery. Their reverence for the Iloko however comes from this clan’s queer and odd brand of bravery: Spillage of blood. The Iloko earned their renown from decapitation of heads. They cut off human heads with magisterial finish, holding the familial history of being the king’s executioner. In ancient England, as execution of enemies of the monarchy was…

Sunday, 14 July 2024 03:56

Reigning in life by Christ Jesus - Taiwo Akinola

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ ~ Romans 5:17. Introduction: The subject of dominion is quintessential to the Christian life. It cannot be over-emphasized neither should it ever be overlooked on our journeys of destiny. In fact, failing to give sufficient attention to it may result in being dominated upon by situations one does not understand and may be unable to control. Since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,…

Sunday, 14 July 2024 03:55

Article of Faith: Enduring to the end - Femi Aribisala

One day, as I was reading Jesus’ Sermon of the Mount yet again, I suddenly heard the Lord say to me, deep within my spirit-man: “Femi, the end justifies the means.” What does this have to do with the beatitudes? Can we, should we, justify the end by the means? Is it godly to do so? I decided to search the scriptures for the answer. Immediately, the whole thing opened to me like a book. I discovered that, in the kingdom of God, the end always justifies the means. Does this mean it is okay to rob a bank, as…

More...

Friday, 12 July 2024 04:58

Olatunji Dare: To repay is to owe more - Azu Ishiekwene

Ten years ago, this article appeared under a different title, “The Debt I Owe.” Olatunji Dare was 70 at the time. Ten years later, on Dare’s 80th birthday on July 17, I’m republishing the article with minor changes. Without this man, I might have turned out to be a literary plumber or perhaps a motor park journalist, but nothing near the second-eleven of a craft that I owe so much. I have also attached a fairly comprehensive file record of Dare in case my updated article is deficient – as I’m sure it is: I met him in 1985. I…

Thursday, 11 July 2024 04:43

Tinubu: Of cognitive blockade and Dangote ‘magic’ - Steve Osuji

Nigeria continues to slide. All economic indicators are red; some are blipping, indicating danger. Those who know are in deep worry. The populace is in a trance, zombified by a never-seen-before strange situation. But the Presidency, the fulcrum of government continues in its empty braggadocio – they doodle and paper over cracks as the ship of state takes more water and totter. The hard, indeed, harsh truth which nobody wants to speak about or hear, is that the president suffers what this column wants to describe in mild terms as cognitive blockade. His mind can’t seem to process much, not…

Wednesday, 10 July 2024 04:26

Banjo’s departing boon - Femi Osofisan

All men are mortal, we know, but it should not be so. Some people are just too precious, too valuable, to be counted among the absent or departed when we need them. They should not be missing when mentioned; they should not be called and not be there. I say this not necessarily because we have any specific request to make of them—a request which of course they would not hesitate to fulfil—but rather, because their presence alone is always like an umbrella over us, an unspoken guarantee of unstinting protection to us who know them. They are a constant…

Tuesday, 09 July 2024 04:40

Expensively fiddling as country careens (EFCC) - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In the last week of April, Pastor and Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, swore that he would “resign as EFCC chairman if embattled former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, is not prosecuted.” Unaccompanied as it was by any calendar or deadline, this undertaking cannot be regarded as having been made with any intention that it should be taken seriously. Bello lost his constitutional immunity from the legal process when his tenure as governor of Kogi State ended three months earlier on 27 January. In the third week of April, Yahaya Bello’s successor as governor…

Page 25 of 145

Opinion

More...

Search

Most Read

Editorial

News

Business

Politics

Opinion

Features

Strangely

Crime

Wars

SCIENCE & TECH

SPECIAL REPORTS

Sports

VIDEOS