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Tuesday, 05 July 2022 06:16

Onnoghen, the Egungun of Okurike - Aba Saheed

Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, born December 22, 1950 has just been installed the Egungun of Okurike, Biase, Cross River State of Nigeria. It was quite an elaborate ceremony and those who were unlucky to have missed the historic and epoch-making installation may have to lick their lips for a long time to come. It was not known to many people, probably not known to Onnoghen himself until Nigeria’s President spotted the dreaded Iroko god Oluwere in Onnoghen’s pouch and announced to the world that nobody else in Africa, at this point in time, deserved the…

Monday, 04 July 2022 06:11

Let’s talk hope - Hassan Gimba

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future, someone once said. Even though there are enough reasons to continue with the treatise on banditry and shared sovereignty - such a depressing fact of our national life - however, today I want to look at the other side - the side of hope. Hope is to believe with an audacity that better days are afoot, the ability to see light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah, hope is tough at the moment - what with the massacre of about 30 of our gallant soldiers by Boko Haram in Minna…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 06:57

Baba Lekki sings ARIWO lenu vendor - Tatalo Alamu

After a late meal of fried breadfruit and a prehistoric variant of mountain legumes still very popular in the hilly intersections of Oke Osun and Ekiti terrain, your columnist was rudely awaken by the din of early morning merriment and festivity going on in the neighbourhood. Rather than rush out of bed to engage the revellers, yours sincerely decided to let discretion be the better part of valour. These days, one is never sure whether the coming revolution will be musicalized or televised. But as the melodious noise grew louder, yours sincerely could pick Oke Ogun music and the mellifluous…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 06:56

Nigerian politicians and pestilence of forged, missing certificates - Festus Adedayo

Last week, media reports indicated that, at the end of filing of personal information before the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) many of Nigeria’s presidential and vice-presidential candidates informed the electoral body that they had “lost” their academic certificates. If you think the gale of missing certificates that currently afflicts Nigerian politicians is a fable that began today, then you apparently haven’t gone into Nigeria’s rich political maggot history. The truth is that, certificate forgery, identity trickery and fraudulent misrepresentation have become a meme of Nigerian politics, even from the pre-colonial times. While the presidential candidate of the All Progressives…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 06:54

Tinubu’s lingering certificate conundrum - Simon Kolawole

The social media, where most political debates take place these days and where brickbats are exchanged between protagonists and antagonists per nanosecond, has caught fire again with reports that Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that he did not attend a primary or secondary school. I found it curious that Tinubu would make such a claim. The law stipulates that a candidate must be educated “up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent”, so how can Tinubu claim he did not go to school? Would he not…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 06:53

The critical role of the Church in nation building - Taiwo Akinola

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid ~ Matthew 5:13-14. Introduction: The Church in any geographical delineation is supposed to positively impact her system of governance, growth and development. She is positioned to clearly contribute towards the delivery of social outputs that are crucial to nation building. History has shown…

Sunday, 03 July 2022 06:51

Article of faith: Mercy triumphs over judgement - Femi Aribisala

This world is a world of judgment. We insist on retributive justice. We send transgressors to jail. We judge offenses. We sometimes even judge God. But judgment never wins; mercy always wins. Judgment without mercy is of man. But with God, mercy always ultimately triumphs over judgment. The gospel The gospel is the most powerful message in the world because in it God’s mercy triumphs over His judgment. It is the power of God unto salvation to those who believe. The gospel reveals a big surprise that is anathema to man. It reveals the mercy of God. Mercy is when…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:46

Why the West should be wary of permanently seizing Russian assets - The Economist

More than 100 days into the war in Ukraine, the biggest sanctions programme ever imposed on a major economy is still being tightened. America and Europe have frozen Russia’s currency reserves held in Western banks. On June 3rd the European Union joined America and Britain in placing a partial embargo on Russia’s oil exports, and also cut off Sberbank, its largest lender, from the swift interbank messaging system. A motley crew of oligarchs and their toys have been sanctioned. In Fiji the Amadea, a 100-metre superyacht with a helipad and pool, is the subject of Western actions, as are private…

Friday, 01 July 2022 06:43

She can keep me, for one month - Azu Ishiekwene

Until she asked, I didn't know it was a problem. Her problem, I mean. When people say whatever gets your time and attention gets you, it’s often true. For as long as I can remember, 38 weeks every year, this thing gets my time and attention.It starts slowly, usually on weekends, at the beginning of the season. And then, as the fixtures pick up tempo and the men separate themselves from the boys, weekends morph into weekdays. Other chores become placeholders yielding to just one desire: watching the English Premier League. From the way my wife asked whether there was…

Thursday, 30 June 2022 06:49

Get yourself a gun; it’s official! - Tola Adeniyi

Now it is official, coming from no less a personality and political stalwart than Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state. Yes. The respected Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma admonished all those trapped in the fiendish Nigerian contraption to seek protection from outside the compromised and partisan Caliphate controlled ‘Nigerian’ Military about two years ago. Some deaf Nigerians living in self-denial did not pay heed. Good enough the Central Unitary Government in Abuja could not fault his knowledge-based warning that there was nothing called wholesome Nigerian Military anymore. Governor of Katsina State Bello Masari who shares the same May 29 birthday with me,…

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Thursday, 30 June 2022 06:48

This country, Nigeria! - Bola Bolawole

“He who must destroy others to succeed must know that destruction waits for him at the gate of his (own) success” – Benu Jibrin. “He who destroys another person to succeed in life will have destruction awaiting him at the post of his (own) success” – Abdullazeez Henry Musa. Nigeria has graduated from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” to a sprawling Amusement Park of sorts. There is hardly anything that cannot happen here. And we take all of them in our strides. The tribe of honest and decent men and women diminish by the day. For many, once money, position and…

Thursday, 30 June 2022 06:46

What is there to vote for if not religion? - Abimbola Adelakun

As electioneering heats up, the tensed debates around the religion of the presidential candidates will steam. Presently, the religious dialogue is about the savviness of a “Muslim-Muslim” ticket which, as we have been told, is the only combination that guarantees electoral success for a candidate whose regional supporters are apparently too close-minded to vote for a Christian. Since the said candidate’s party wields incumbency, they can very well win. What this means is that after four or eight years, when power returns to the North, we might have to settle for another Muslim candidate since the politically dominant northern Muslim…

Monday, 27 June 2022 06:50

Billionaire Dangote and brilliant El-Rufai - Aba Saheed

Billionaire Aliko Dangote, 70th richest person on earth, was born April 10, 1957 in Kano, to a wealthy Hausa Muslim family. He is the son of Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata, the daughter of Sanusi Dantata [circ 1919-15 April 1997]. Sanusi was the second son of the famous Alhassan Dantata [1877-August 17 1955]. Alhassan Dantata born in Bebeji, Kano, was a Hausa trader in kolanuts and ground nut and he was a major distributor of European goods. He supplied large British companies with raw materials and also had business interests in the Gold Coast. At the time of his…

Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:50

What to know after Day 122 of Russia-Ukraine war

Russian forces fully occupied the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, both sides said, confirming Kyiv's biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war's bloodiest fighting. Ukraine called its retreat from the city a "tactical withdrawal" to fight from higher ground in Lysychansk on the opposite bank of the Siverskyi Donets river. Pro-Russian separatists said Moscow's forces were now attacking Lysychansk. The fall of Sievierodonetsk - once home to more than 100,000 people but now a wasteland - was Russia's biggest victory since capturing the port of Mariupol last month. It transforms…

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