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Witchcraft is the exercise or invocation of alleged supernatural powers, typically involving sorcery, magic, incantations, manipulation and deception to control people or events. With the collaboration of people and egregore of inferior astral, witchcraft influences the world of the living. Witchcraft practitioners manipulate people, create dubious fantasies, mystify realities, and propagate Eldorado to their victims. The lower astral entities feed on human energy, and in return, their human collaborators get wealth, power and fame, which are destructive to society and humanity. Tinubunomics, in concrete reality, is witchcraft-economism. Its advocates have been desperately trying to present it as President Bola Tinubu’s…
One phenomenon that cannot be denied in Nigeria today is hunger. Nigerian people are hungry. Very unusually, no one – politicians, elected government functionaries or their appendages – has been able to allege that this general cry of hunger is politically motivated. So many occurrences have been painted with the camwood of that word, “politically motivated”. It is worse for some of us who write. We must have taken overnight instructions from political baron opponents to paint government black. Or, our views are hangovers from ancient hatred and bile. But, hunger seems to be in a class of its own.…
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force ~ Matthew 11:12. Introduction: For far too long, many saints have stood idle and watched the steady decline of the believers' influence and their exercise of authority in the world. Pigs are appearing in our parlours! It’s time to fight back, spiritually, to take back what rightfully belongs to us. God designed the believers with the divine precision to qualify to be “more than conquerors”, no matter the challenges we may face (Romans 8:37).Therefore, falling, failing or…
A distraught Christian laments: “Pastor, I have been so worried, I have not been able to pray.” This is like falling off a cliff, hanging by a shrub and refusing to cry out for help. If there ever was a time to pray, it is in time of trouble. God’s promise is the strength of our hearts: “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” (Psalms 50:15). My brother had left the country unannounced. For years we did not know where he was. But one day my Aunty, who is a…
Envy and jealousy, according to psychologists, are complex emotions that have fascinated writers, poets, and thinkers for centuries. While they are often portrayed negatively, they also offer insights into human nature and relationships. Experts say envy arises when we desire something that someone else possesses. It is a feeling of discontent or resentment triggered by another person’s success, possessions, or advantages. Unlike jealousy, which involves a fear of losing what we already have, envy focuses on what we lack. Envy can be both motivating (spurring us to improve) and destructive (leading to bitterness and hostility). Jealousy on the other hand…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came to the job as an afterthought, yet his days in Number 10 were numbered before he received the ceremonial blessings of King Charles III. For a long time after Brexit, the Tories and sections of the British public, still in post-Brexit ecstasy, were madly in love with Boris Johnson. He was incompetent and a congenital liar but a good poster boy of that era. After David Cameron fell on his sword, the Brits wanted someone to extend the comedy of post-Brexit, and Johnson was a good fit. Then came Covid-19, a global crisis that…
Sometime in 2022, we (some friends and I) were driving through a village in Kenya when I saw this giant billboard with the face of a presidential candidate named William Ruto. The tagline was, “Every hustle matters!” I thought it was a funny slogan for a presidential candidate, and a friend (who would vote Ruto) gave me a quick rundown of his candidacy. It boiled down to the usual platitude deployed to justify voting a candidate: he is on the side of the people, the masses, the common man (and whatever pejorative labels we assign). I recall thinking, I know…
African lawmakers and observers should not be surprised that Kenya, one of the region’s most stable democracies, has erupted in deadly “cost of living” protests. They should be asking why it has taken so long for them to happen, and where on the continent the next explosion could take place. At the core of these demonstrations is the fact that too many Africans have reached a stage where they are barely able to survive on their meager earnings and are ready to strike out at leaders seen as corrupt, uncaring and out of touch with the reality of ordinary people’s…
This is the way forward, a desideratum, in fact a prerequisite for the much-needed solution to the myriads of problems facing the country, if we must move forward. A system that has plunged us into this mess cannot bring us back from the brink. It cannot be business as usual if we want to get out of the woods. So far, no political party has given a policy thrust that will bring us back from the precipice that is staring us in the face, and those who feel they are doing the right thing may in fact be offering derisory…
On the eve of 2015 Presidential election I warned Nigerians in a Facebook post that they were about to make a choice between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. I am not sure people understood the enormity of that statement or even the weightiness of its implications. In their wisdom Nigerians chose the Deep Blue Sea and since that day that sea has been carrying them tossing them from one calamity to the other, from one disaster to the next like reefs on the mighty waters. First it was recession, then insecurity, then banditry, kidnapping for ransom, terrorism, high-wire…
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NFF appoints new Super Eagles head coach

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