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Sunday, 21 January 2024 04:42

Ibadan blast, Abuja kidnaps and calamities - Festus Adedayo

Big calamities seldom knock before opening the door. Calamities’ sneaky essence is articulated in one song by grand old Odolaye Aremu, Ilorin, Kwara State-born Dadakuada song minstrel. While philosophizing the concept of calamity, which Yoruba call “eemo”, Odolaye sang that surprise and swiftness are primary features of calamities, holding tight to them like leaches. So he sang, “Peki laa k'eemo,” (calamity is met suddenly). The singer points at horses used in races and in ancient wars meeting their own end unprepared during races. It is the same with soldiers who mount horses and ride them to death. Odolaye sang that,…

Sunday, 21 January 2024 04:41

The SeedPlot for bountiful harvests (3) - Taiwo Akinola

Bountiful Harvests: The Certain Destiny of the Righteous The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God ~ Psalm 92:12-13. Introduction: Every exploit in life is a product of personal knowledge. Man was created and ordained to bear fruits (Genesis 1:28; John 15:16). Indeed, it’s essentially abnormal not to produce (Psalm 92:12-13). In simple terms, destiny speaks to God's ordained purpose for your life. It is your appointed present and ordained future, predetermined by God…

Sunday, 21 January 2024 04:39

Article of faith: Crossing out the devil - Femi Aribisala

Jesus came into the world as a heavenly commando sent by God to destroy the works of Satan single-handedly. The devil holds men in bondage through the singular sin of the love of life; the foundation of all sin. We steal, cheat, fight, kill and commit adultery to save our lives. God required Jesus to call us to repentance and tell us about His glorious kingdom. He then demonstrated that our fear of death is baseless by laying down His life and then rising from the dead. Hebrews says of Jesus: “Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh…

Friday, 19 January 2024 04:46

The road to thanksgiving - Azu Ishiekwene

I hope Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, can finally get some sleep. He deserves it. After the ruling of the Supreme Court on Friday, upholding his election, the governor told a crowd of his supporters who came to rejoice with him at the State Government Lodge in Abuja, that he had not slept for seven days, in spite of the comfort of his waterbed. Mohammed, a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said he had been awake, seven days and seven nights, “fighting former leaders” to secure the mandate of voters. I can imagine. This was an election that…

Friday, 19 January 2024 04:44

Where did they get the dynamites from? - Seun Kolade

I remember the first time I needed to buy new tyres for my car in the UK. One of the tyres had gone flat, and it soon became clear that it was not something that could be solved merely by adjusting the tyre pressure. It had to be changed, and on I went to the tyre dealer. I provided details about the car and the specifications of the tyre. I then asked for the price, ready to get the tyre and go. The guy looked at me with a chuckle, incredulous. We can’t sell the tyre to you like that,…

Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:41

No gree for anybody - Toyin Falola

I am writing this piece from Lagos. “No Gree” is what you now hear at every moment, every corner. I first heard it from our security folks here, then Mr. Mike, our talented gardener. I took a walk on Isaac John, “I know gree,” sounded by those walking on the streets. I, too, began to use it. If you don’t read this, “I know gree!” In the previous years, the sociolinguistic colloquialism in Nigeria evolved with temporal progression; the New Year peeked with another set of slang, and at the cross-over services and New Year rituals in churches and mosques,…

Monday, 15 January 2024 04:43

Monica Dongban-Mensem: In God’s name, go! - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The three-person panel whom Monica Dongban-Mensem sent to Plateau State could not have wrought that amount of destruction without her active consent, if not instruction. It is simply inconceivable that a Justice of Appeal Court, like Okon Abang – sworn in only in October 2023 – could have gone to the home state of the President of the Court to confidently wreak so much political damage without her explicit instruction. Last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal in Plateau was rogue, procured and perverse. It set aside the reasoning of the Court which denied the people…

Sunday, 14 January 2024 04:44

Ogboni cult in Betta Edu and T.B. Joshua - Festus Adedayo

The “Edan” is a Yoruba Ogboni cult insignia, an emblem of membership in the Ogboni society. It is a cylindrical duality of male and female brass figures with iron stems attached to it. Mostly joined at the top by an iron chain, the edan is said to signify old age, experience, knowledge, and wisdom. The female edan also has a beard motif. It recreates the image of the goddess, Edan, a manlike woman, an “Obinrin bi okunrin” who possesses the wisdom of a Babalawo – diviner – and the epicenter of human morality. This image is intermixed with the supernatural…

Sunday, 14 January 2024 04:42

The SeedPlot for bountiful harvests (2) - Taiwo Akinola

The Critical Environments for Bountiful Harvests But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully ….. for God loveth a cheerful giver ~ 2 Corinthians 9:6-7. Introduction One of the amazing characteristics of normal human beings is their ever so insatiable desire for a better life. Excitingly, the Lord Jesus declared that all things are possible to whosoever believes (Mark 9:23). Thus, you can harvest whatsoever you desire in prayer, if you can believe God for it (Mark 11:24). Now, one might like the idea of a bountiful…

Friday, 12 January 2024 04:54

Reflections on Adesina’s work with Buhari - Azu Ishiekwene

I knew Femi Adesina when he was “Daddy Tobi.” He still is, of course. But back in the day when we were neighbours in “Olowora Inside”, a Lagos suburb, when you could call to a neighbour from your frontage, often by using the name of their first child, that was how we called Femi: Daddy Tobi. I have heard people complain that a friend in government is a friend lost. I have seen it too – friends who are not only lost but who are also happy to lose themselves once in power or positions of influence. I don’t know…

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Thursday, 11 January 2024 04:40

There is no defending TB Joshua - Abimbola Adelakun

For those of you who watched the BBC Africa documentary, Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (three episodes), an expose on the Synagogue Church of All Nations’ late founder Temitope Joshua and still insist on defending him, I have four words: you are not serious. Yes, the whole lot of you. Your faces are looking funny in the light. Some defenders—understandably—grapple with the contradictions of a man who artfully constructed his public image as a good yet profoundly misunderstood man. The rest of you, still bonded into Joshua’s cult of personality, are being obtuse. You query, why now that he…

Monday, 08 January 2024 04:45

Cotonou degrees and Nigeria’s wimpy education policy - Hassan Gimba

Last week, we got a dose of what investigative journalism ought to be. Umar Audu, a promising young journalist, proved to be an outstanding student of his mentor, Ja’afar Ja’afar, an investigative journalist of the first order. Reporting for Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar’s online newspaper, Umar Audu went underground to bag a degree in Mass Communication from a university in the Benin Republic. It is a report worthy of the highest award in the land for investigative journalism. “This certificate will be delivered to you just like you ordered a pizza or something, and you give them your location, and it…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:32

Akwa Ibom’s N32 billion Yamoussoukro Basilica - Festus Adedayo

One single thread links Umo Eno, self-styled pastor governor of Akwa Ibom State, his predecessor, Emmanuel Udom and Felix Houphouet-Boigny. It is the religious bigotry and senselessness behind the Akwa Ibom International Worship Centre and the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire. While Eno and Udom constructed a worship centre said to have gulped a frighteningly high N32 billion, Houphouet-Boigny also constructed a monumental architectural edifice in his Yamoussoukro village worth $300 million between 1985 and 1989. Yamoussoukro was regarded as a provincial town that boasted only a mere 220,000 inhabitants and characterized by low-density and…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:31

The SeedPlot for bountiful harvests (1) - Taiwo Akinola

Understanding the Basic Fundamentals of Bountiful Harvests Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest ~ John 4:35. Introduction It’s a new year, and a new season of our lives! I seize this moment therefore to say happy new year to all my reading audience, and I pray that God’s mercy will accompany you all the way through, in Jesus name. Amen. Meanwhile, good understanding is a major pathway to favour (Proverbs 13:15). In all…

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