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Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:46

Okon is upstaged by Baba Lekki - Tatalo Alamu

Still basking in the false glory of being appointed Commander of the order of Good Values by a rogue organisation, Okon has become totally impossible to handle. Even in the kitchen, he insists on wearing the insignia of the Commander of the Order of Good Values (COGV) like a talisman to ward off the heat. Snooper was quietly enjoying the spectacle of a whole commander cooking for him when the mad Calabar boy erupted in a furious counter offensive. After a short visit home to celebrate his award, the crazy rogue sidled up to snooper one fine morning. “Oga,”, Okon…

Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:44

Peter Obi as Nigeria’s Rosa Parks - Festus Adedayo

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman named Rosa Parks did what philosophers call against method. Paul Feyeraband, an Austrian philosopher, had in 1976 pioneered that thesis. In a racial American society of the time where blacks were inferior and were expected to leave their bus seats for whites, Parks refused to give up hers for a white male passenger. Her refusal sparked off a boycott that changed the paradigm of racial relationship in America. It even shot the less-known Martin Luther King Jr. to world recognition. At the risk of sanctions for her impudence, Parks had…

Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:41

Understanding the Peter Obi dilemma - Simon Kolawole

How time flies! I met Peter Obi for the first time almost 19 years ago — in August 2003 to be specific. He had come to the THISDAY head office in Apapa, Lagos state, on a visit to Olusegun Adeniyi, then Sunday Editor. I was the Saturday Editor. As I saw him in front of Adeniyi’s door, I recognised him instantly: his face had been all over the papers. He was acclaimed to have won the Anambra governorship poll on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), under the guidance of…

Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:38

Joy in the Holy Ghost (4) - Taiwo Akinola

Joy Cometh In The Morning For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning ~ Psalms 30:5. Introduction: The precious words — “joy cometh in the morning” — summarize a powerful prophetic exhortation and an assurance about our joyous hope in God even in the midst of life’s trials. They have blessed, consoled and comforted very many people over many generations, and I am certain that they will comfort you as well. The question is not whether we will encounter trials, but whether we know…

Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:37

Article of faith: The surrendered life - Femi Aribisala

When man imagines God, he sees Him carnally and strictly in terms of His power and might. But when God manifested Himself in the flesh, He came as a meek and lowly suffering servant. Isaiah foresaw Jesus as: “a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground.” (Isaiah 53:2). He wonders if anyone would believe his report. The prime expression of God in Christ is not His power but His love. Thus, while others say God is powerful: the disciple of Jesus says God is love. (1 John 4:8). Powerful love Power is a key expression of the…

Sunday, 26 June 2022 06:35

The Four Horsemen of the 21st century: War, capitalism, fascism and mass death

Chris Hedges It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So is the refusal of the global ruling elite to pursue measures that might mitigate the devastation. We accelerate the extraction of fossil fuels, wallow in profligate consumption, including our consumption of livestock, and make new wars as if we are gripped by a Freudian death wish. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Conquest, War, Famine and Death — gallop into the 21st century. Those who rule, servants of corporations and the global billionaire class, accompany the suicidal folly by…

Friday, 24 June 2022 06:25

Ekweremadu and the peculiar mess of Nigerian politicians - Olarinre Salako

Majority of Nigerian Political Elites hardly know they are self-destructive. They are mostly shameless! And worst still, they make all of us, Nigerians (nay, Africans), look inferior to the Caucasians. Even if they don't know why they occupy their seats, they should at least stop the embrassment of Nigerians. While the full detail is still unfolding, the one thing that is certain so far, is that Ekweremadu’s daughter – Sonia is in a London hospital on kidney dialysis, waiting for a kidney transplant. This is according to the Medical Visa Application Letter to the British High Commision, purportedly written by…

Friday, 24 June 2022 06:24

The temptation of Bola Tinubu - Dare Babarinsa

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), came into the limelight 30 years ago. He was one of the young men and women who flocked around Moshood Abiola, Nigerian President-presumptive and winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. Tinubu was elected Senator on the platform of Abiola’s Social Democratic Party (SDP), to represent Lagos-West in Abuja. He was a dapper-dresser; handsome and precocious. He was fearless and daring. When Abiola went to see General Sani Abacha on the November 1993 night the military toppled Ernest Shonekan, the Head of the Interim National Government (ING), he…

Friday, 24 June 2022 06:22

Naked Supreme Court dance not a bad thing after all - Azu Ishiekwene

When I first read the news in People’s Gazette through a link forwarded to me by a friend, I prayed that it would not be true. My prayer was in spite of the evidence to the contrary provided in watermarked documents by the news platform. The letter read like the demand of unionised shop floor factory workers to their mean, grasping bosses upstairs. Except that even such correspondences occasionally contain a hint of shared Marxian humour. This one was different. It had no place at all for humour. It was from the most rarified recesses of Nigeria’s judiciary: a letter…

Thursday, 23 June 2022 06:46

This is not how Ganduje will find redemption - Abimbola Adelakun

Chances are that each time you hear the name of Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, what comes to mind is the 2018 video of a man pocketing bribes. In that infamous video, the man receiving wads of dollars from a supposed contractor was oblivious to the secret camera planted in the room to record the transaction. When the video was made public, it shamed Ganduje and his public image has not quite recovered. Even though virtually every Nigerian knows their leaders to be irredeemably corrupt, that video was still an unflattering picture of how the bribes they collect for a living…

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Thursday, 23 June 2022 06:44

2023: Between the rock and hard place - Bola Bolawole

In December 2019, I attended a FICAN (Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria) workshop sponsored by the NIDC (Nigeria Insurance Deposit Corporation) held at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State. The university is said to belong to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, recently crowned the presidential flag bearer of the PDP in next year’s presidential election. After the opening ceremony, I decided to take a stroll to a bank nearby and make a withdrawal. As if the spirit of God was leading me, I began to ruminate on the affairs of Nigeria. As far back as that time, the vexed…

Tuesday, 21 June 2022 11:41

The evolving Peter Obi phenomenon - Femi Mimiko

It’s certainly not the case that the piece, “The Peter Obi Tsunami…”, by Farooq Kperogi is a mere stuff for entertainment, as it has been suggested. Far from it! Indeed, the writer has done very well to interrogate the context within which Obi emerged, the forces driving the Obi ‘tsunami’, the limitations thereto, and the upset the candidate may cause in 2023. I associate very well with this broad outline. We should recall that a few days ago, I actually gave vent to my hunch recently that Obi may come off in the 2023 election as a very strong first…

Tuesday, 21 June 2022 06:01

How the US could lose the new Cold War - Joseph E. Stiglitz

The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia. And US leaders’ portrayal of the confrontation as one between democracy and authoritarianism fails the smell test, especially at a time when the same leaders are actively courting a systematic human-rights abuser like Saudi Arabia. Such hypocrisy suggests that it is at least partly global hegemony, not values, that is really at stake. For two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the US was clearly number one. But then came disastrously misguided wars in the Middle East, the 2008 financial crash, rising…

Monday, 20 June 2022 06:52

Owo massacre: We have not heard the last! - Bola Bolawole

I am from Owo. I was born and bred there. Readers of my columns must have known that by now. My primary school, modern school and secondary school were all at Owo. I did not step out of Owo to live anywhere else until 1975, first at Sobe and later at Usho, both under the then Owo Local Government, where I worked for a few days each as an auxiliary teacher (with my West African School Certificate) before I packed it up and returned home. In mid-1976, I made my first real foray out of my cocoons when I heeded…

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