Opinion

“The hunger march is a universal S.O.S.” – Wole Soyinka, 4 August, 2024 “While you are there demonstrating, we will be here eating.” – Godswill Obot Akpanio, Senate president, 31 July, 2024 “That distribution undo excess and each man have enough.” – William Shakespeare, King Lear Egeremiti is a term, a figure of speech in Yoruba rhetoric for any experience, act or utterance that is so wondrous – in a good or evil sense – that it is close to being an epiphany. As I read the names of so many living and departed comrades, friends and colleagues on the…
The proper thing to do when readers respond to a newspaper article is to respect their right of reply. There were two irate responses to my article last week, “Not the Iran We Thought It Was: What Has Changed in the Persian Gulf.” One, entitled “Not the Azu We Thought He Was,” by Yakubu Musa, a guest author for 21st Century Chronicle, an online newspaper, and the other, “Basking in the Euphoria of Narrative Origami,” by Mahfuz Mundadu, a friend of one Hassan Karofi, who claimed he is a journalist. Both articles could have been from the spiteful fingers of…
As economic hardship bites and the state fails to curtail the problem of insecurity, people rue their decision to vote for Bola Tinubu as president in 2023. This angst seems to be coming from every corner of the country; people frequently denounce this administration’s failure to provide relief from the years of deprivation. From the politicians who either lost out in the power game of the 2023 general election or were sidelined in the sharing of the spoils of office to Yoruba Nollywood, where actors such as Ebun Oloyede (aka Olaiya Igwe), Ibironke Ojo-Anthony (aka Ronke Oshodi Oke), Bukky Raji…
The legal career of Joseph Chu’ma Otteh, whose mortal remains were committed to earth on 20 June, could easily have been different. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife in 1988, very much one of the best students in the set. In 1989, Joe enrolled as a lawyer in Nigeria. He had every opportunity to deploy his prodigious talents and considerable skills in the pursuit of personal fortune and no one could have begrudged him. Instead, he chose the path of legacy and impact through the pursuit of an unpredictable career in…
It is 20 years since the sage, Chinua Achebe, penned a famous open letter rejecting President Olusegun Obasanjo’s award of the Commander of the Federal Republic. For those who have forgotten, or who for some reason do not know, here is the full message, which was sent from Annandale-on-Hudson in New York, where the writer lived at the time.“October 15, 2004“My Dear President Obasanjo,“I write this letter with a very heavy heart. For some time now, I have watched events in Nigeria with alarm and dismay. I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra, where a…
Sunday, 22 June 2025 03:54

Fighting to the finish - Taiwo Akinola

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness…and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” - 2 Timothy 4:7-8. Introduction The Apostle Paul, a man widely (and rightly) regarded as a Christian leader for all time, was a true exemplar of the Christian way of life. As we learn from his writings and accounts of others, in all that he did, he was truly an ambassador of the Gospel to the Gentiles, a father to…
When I met the Lord, I became suddenly open to the spirit world. Jesus said to me: “Femi, blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear.” (Matthew 13:16). However, this was double-edged. I could see and hear both the positive and the negative spiritual. After a few months, the pastor in my church came to see me. He had a dream in which the devil was laughing at me, boasting that he would drive me mad. The Lord asked me to wait on Him for three days because He had something to reveal to me.…
Chris Enloe Jesus flipping tables in the Temple is not a permission slip for violent protests. As pockets of Los Angeles and other major cities descended into chaos this week — violent protests orchestrated by leftist agitators angry that the Trump administration is enforcing immigration laws — a meme about Jesus went viral. Jesus didn't torch Roman government buildings, loot businesses, attack Roman authorities, or cause destruction for the sake of chaos. Eventually plastered on the front page of Reddit, the leftist meme depicts Jesus' famous temple tantrum — when he flipped over tables in the Jerusalem Temple courts —…
On paper, it looked like a mismatch. Iran is not only one of the oldest and most established places in the Persian Gulf but also at least 75 times the size of Israel, with a population nine to ten times larger. Size for size, it’s a modern-day David and Goliath match-up, with ancient history squarely on Iran’s side. At the height of its reign, especially under Cyrus the Great (545-525 BC), the Persian Empire, modern-day Iran, extended as far as Egypt, and its military might was unassailable. In more contemporary times, Iran defended itself against the aggression of Saddam Hussein…
If anyone needed a compelling argument against electing old and lethargic leaders whose breasts the milk of human kindness has long dried, the response by the present administration to the recent killings in the Yelwata community of Benue should suffice. For a round of violence that consumed an estimated 200 people, the press release issued by the government in the wake of the incident severely lacked the urgency and empathy one would expect. It was signed by the President’s media aide, Bayo Onanuga, who sounded just as morally fatigued—perhaps even bored—with the recurrence of Nigeria’s tragedy as his principal. Politics…
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