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Monday, 06 February 2023 05:53

The god of Wike! Buhari is alone! And other illusions (2) - Hassan Gimba

President Muhammadu Buhari’s followers, therefore, created in him an image of an ascetic, beyond reproach, and so canonised him as a saint. And he also did his best to fit into that picture. Ramrod, shed of any fat and wearing the cheapest materials around, the story was that he had seen it all yet refused to be tempted into taking anything from anywhere he worked. He was a military governor with executive powers over what are now six states and then a federal commissioner of petroleum and later a military head of state. Yet he depended on nothing other than…

Sunday, 05 February 2023 06:03

Okon is in a class of his own - Tatalo Alamu

After his last attempt to import Calabar carnival into Lagos ended in a fiasco with Eyo masquerades from Ilubirin chasing the impudent rascal across the Carter Bridge, it became clear to snooper that very soon, Okon would get his master into trouble with the law. Each time he was thwarted in a scheme to make some money, Okon comes up with more inventive scams. The last time he ventured near the Marina, he was beaten to an inch of his life for passing off cow dung as the latest aphrodisiac from Bombay. Yet the mad Calabar boy has remained undaunted.…

Sunday, 05 February 2023 06:01

Nigeria at point zero - Festus Adedayo

I am peering at the viral video of the naked young man inside the banking hall as I write this. His manhood dangles like the pendulum of the Grandfather Clock of colonial Nigeria. He is totally naked, even as he shouts that he needs to withdraw cash from the bank. I am aghast and disillusioned at the same time. I do not know what to think. My mouth is wide open, saliva gliding majestically as it drooled off my lower lip. Before now, I saw a similar video. It was that of a semi-naked young lady. She too had peeled…

Sunday, 05 February 2023 06:00

The overflowing goodness of God (1) - Taiwo Akinola

Understanding The Divine Goodness O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him ~ Psalms 34:8. Introduction The God of the Bible is the “Eternal Being” that possesses so many unusual and distinctive attributes which are very essential to our lives and godliness. He is omnipotent (all-powerful), omnipresent (everywhere-present), omniscient (all-knowing) and omni-benevolent (supremely good). God is also peculiarly characterized by His infinite knowledge and wisdom, universal dominion, everlasting faithfulness, infinite purity, inflexible justice, and so on. Now, each of these divine attributes is worthy of our highest contemplation and unending admiration.…

Friday, 03 February 2023 05:56

Musings after 48 hours with Raila Odinga - Azu Ishiekwene

At first, he appeared to be the most unlikely candidate for the task. After his fifth attempt at running for Kenya’s presidency, surely Raila Odinga is finished, done. The only thing left perhaps was how to update his memoirs. But who needs nuggets from a loser who couldn’t put them to use himself? These were the thoughts that weighed on our minds as we thought of inviting former Kenyan Prime Minister and freshly defeated candidate of the Orange Democratic Movement, Raila Odinga, to the 14th edition of the LEADERSHIP annual conference and awards. It’s also interesting that since he narrowly…

Thursday, 02 February 2023 05:45

Don’t buy Tinubu’s parasitism - Abimbola Adelakun

Since the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Bola Tinubu made his infamous speech about saboteurs trying to scuttle his election in Ogun State, recently the airwaves have been agog with conspiracy theories. Of course, he did not name anyone but he gave speculators enough homework when he lamented that the protracted fuel crisis and the ongoing Naira redesign exercise were contrived to frustrate him. Nigerians that get excited by conspiracies have spilled a lot of ink trying to determine the nature of the rift between him and incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari. Yet, when you really look at his jeremiad closely…

Wednesday, 01 February 2023 05:43

It’s not going well for Britain’s new Prime Minister - Moya Lothian-McLean

Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has a plan for the new year. In a speech in early January, he set out an agenda to resuscitate the country and save the Conservative Party, now in free fall. “We will halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut waiting lists and stop the boats,” he intoned. You’d be forgiven for hearing a note of desperation. Mr. Sunak, after all, entered office with a mountain to climb. The cost-of-living crisis is just the start: Wherever you turn, strife seems to rise to meet you. To name but a few, there’s the health care…

Monday, 30 January 2023 05:59

The god of Wike, Buhari is alone and other illusions (1) - Hassan Gimba

Many governors who finish their two terms in Nigeria retire into the red chamber and become 'distinguished Senators'. But not so Nyesom Wike, the sixth governor of Rivers State and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongman. When he refused to follow the traditional path taken by governors finishing their tour of duty, many thought he wanted to make a career in dancing to the beatings of a live band. There were arguments on where he would ply his trade - clubhouses or political gatherings - and whether he could attract a large audience that can offset the clubhouses’ bills or…

Sunday, 29 January 2023 06:00

Tinubu: Why Abeokuta again? - Bola Bolawole

In times past, Nigerian leaders were fond of snubbing the local media and travelling abroad to break very important news stories that qualify as “world exclusives” to foreign media. Some put this down as a factor of the colonial mentality still ravaging African leaders centuries after the slave trade and decades after these countries had obtained what is derisively referred to as “flag independence” from their colonial masters. Inferiority complex, mental slavery, which the Jamaican reggae artiste, Bob Marley, had counselled those leaders to emancipate themselves from, or what radical African scholars term as the decolonization of the mind which,…

Sunday, 29 January 2023 05:59

The Tinubu-Buhari Cold War is becoming Hot War - Farooq Kperogi

It was always obvious to keen, disinterested observers that Bola Tinubu’s gamble in helping Muhammadu Buhari to ascend to power won’t pay off in the end; that his opportunistic political love affair with Buhari won’t be requited; and that the brittle, delicately thin thread that held their relational dynamic would snap sooner or later. I wrote countless columns on this. Tinubu won the nomination of the APC not because of Buhari and the cabal of provincial power brokers that prop him but in spite of them. Tinubu was compelled to ventilate his famously impassioned “emi lo kan” outburst in Abeokuta…

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Sunday, 29 January 2023 05:57

Tinubu and ghosts of fuel scarcity, new Naira notes - Festus Adedayo

In a piece I wrote entitled A O M’erin J’oba At Tinubu’s Colloquium (April 1, 2018) I warned that the man who has now become the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Bola Tinubu, was making a strategic mistake in assuming that Muhammadu Buhari loved him. Or that he would probably want to relinquish power to him. Using a famous folklore rendered as tale told by the moonlight in traditional African Yoruba, but which Obafemi Awolowo’s Minister of Works and folklorist/writer, Joseph Odunjo, brought into vivid perspective in his Alawiye Yoruba literature series, I explained how Tinubu, resting…

Sunday, 29 January 2023 05:56

The release of destiny helpers - Taiwo Akinola

For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host like the host of God ~ 1 Chronicles 12: 22. Introduction There are many subtle satanic conspiracies to keep you in a box from the day you were born till your sojourn here on earth is over. However, God has also mercifully put into the hands of some people all you will ever need to live happily here on earth. In fact, God has positioned these people and some other elements of creation ahead of you to make your life’s…

Sunday, 29 January 2023 05:54

Article of faith: The flesh is a liar (1) - Femi Aribisala

God is a God of truth. Therefore, we, His children, must not walk in lies. We must walk in the truth. We must not know the voice of a stranger, for the stranger is not of God. We know the devil is a liar. Jesus says he is the father of lies. But there is another liar that we often overlook. Some of us do not even know he is a liar. But he is not only a liar, he is a great liar. Moreover, he is a faithful ally of the devil. So, when we say, “The devil is…

Friday, 27 January 2023 05:52

A leader like Jacinda Ardern - Azu Ishiekwene

A leader like Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand doesn’t come in tens. Not even in twos. And so, it was such a bright day on October 26, 2017, when she took office as New Zealand’s Prime Minister. She was 37-years-old and also the youngest head of government at the time. What’s there not to love? But now, more than five years later, she has announced the withdrawal of that special light as she resigns the position, stating that she “no longer had enough in the tank” to carry on in office. “I’m leaving, because with such a privileged role comes…

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