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Tuesday, 20 September 2022 04:03

The mint and the other room - Aba Saheed

Leaked Memos: Your Pre-Eminence, the Most High, the Highest of the Highest, the Emperor of Emperors, the father, grandfather and great grandfather of the empire, Your Excellency, Salutations Sir! I lay flat on my belly as I most humbly and unworthily write this Memo to your Pre-eminence sir. I beg you in the name of God in Heaven who is your partner and friend. I recognize you as the god on earth and I am sure the God in Heaven with whom you share space on earth will let you consider my request sir, knowing fully well that I am…

Tuesday, 20 September 2022 04:02

We the Obidiots, Zombidients and Zombidiots: This is our story - Owi

They say we are rude, uncultured and without class. That we drown civil discourse with incoherent noise and troubling fanatism. We have been relegated to the rear of “real” political discourse and have been likened to discordant tunes or clanging cymbals. They ask for respect, civility and graciousness. They say we are disorganised, disunited and lacking in focus. They say our collective hopes and aspirations for 2023 are nothing but a fleeting dream or a castle in the sky; after all, “who knows Peter Obi in the north?” However, to dismiss the Peter Obi counterculture as mere political ineptitude propagated…

Monday, 19 September 2022 06:46

Why is the North always coming in late? - Bola Bolawole

The news media were awash last week that the North’s governors and traditional rulers have come around to support state police after a meeting they held in Abuja; the reason for their about turn was given as the worsening security situation in the North. These are the same leaders that have often risen in stout defence of the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, threatening critics with mayhem and insisting, against the grains of evidence and acting like the ostrich, that the North is more secured under their own son, Buhari, than it was under his predecessor, the Ijaw man Goodluck Jonathan.…

Monday, 19 September 2022 06:44

An agenda for national rebirth (5) - Hassan Gimba

Last week, we stated that “a leader creates and nurtures others to be leaders. He must possess a clear vision and focus, know what he wants for his country, and should be courageous enough to follow his dream. Apart from possessing integrity and honesty, a good leader has humility, is fair and just with the capacity for self-sacrifice and perseverance. A leader is one whose national interest subsumes his.” We also saw how the late prime minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, made his Private Secretary, who became Nigeria’s President in the Second Republic, Shehu Shagari, refund to the federal government, from…

Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:47

Baba Lekki rallies as Okon is nabbed for oil theft - Tatalo Alamu

To the Oriyangi Police Station on this wet and soggy morning where Okon is being detained on allegations of oil theft, petroleum pilfering, bunkering, illegal storage and pipeline sabotage thereby contributing to the economic adversity of the nation. He had been nabbed by undercover policemen while laying a pipeline that ran through a major house of worship and an orphanage around the Mowe-Ibafo axis. The Oriyangi Station is located on a scraggy escarpment which abuts a ravine filled with water and murky sludge close to Arepo village. In its heydays, the gorge was reputed to be the abode of a…

Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:45

University education as mere meal ticket... - Bola Bolawole

Last week, the news went viral of a graduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo state who, on account of his failure to secure a job six years after graduation, returned his certificate to the school and demanded a refund of the money he paid as school fees. It is a well-known journalism parlance that when a dog bites a man, it is no news but when a man bites a dog, bedlam! So, this bad news got copious mention in both social and traditional media. Not long afterwards, the alumni association of the university in question…

Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:43

Akudaaya: Tinubu, Abacha and Shettima’s theory of ruthless leadership - Festus Adedayo

In what seems to affirm that he wears controversies like apparel, Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party, (APC) Kashim Shettima, leapt into yet another at the twilight of last week. On Thursday, at the 96th anniversary celebration of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Shettima was quoted to have said that Nigeria needed the “hospitality” of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s despotic military ruler, Nigeria’s own contribution to the list of infamous rulers who ruled the world with infernal ruthlessness. As the controversy over what he actually said raged, Shettima came out with a clarification: He actually…

Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:42

Victor and not a victim! - Taiwo Akinola

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith ~ 1 John 5:4. Introduction: Victory is very sweet. Defeat can be a very bitter poison. God is not glorified when you live as a victim of past experiences or of present circumstances. Happily, victory is a uniform banner of every new creation man (1John 5:4). Rejecting or ignoring covenant victory in Christ Jesus should never be an option. It could be tantamount to a high spiritual crime of personal injury and a great disservice to God’s kingdom. No…

Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:40

Article of faith: God’s signature tune - Femi Aribisala

God is the God of peace. (Romans 15:33). When He speaks, even to the storm, peace is established. (Mark 4:39). The psalmist says: “I will hear what God the LORD will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints.” (Psalm 85:8). Joseph told the pharaoh who wanted the interpretation of his dream: “God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” (Genesis 41:16). Rest of God One of the names of God is Jehovah-Shalom. Shalom is the Hebrew word for peace. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the gospel of peace. (Romans 10:15). The sons of…

Saturday, 17 September 2022 06:39

The most malicious ‘dis-Obi-dients’ call Southeast home - Osmund Agbo

“But while young Igbo and young people from other tribes are enthused by his emergence as a presidential candidate and rally round him (Peter Obi), some prominent Igbo politicians treat him as a huge joke; something of a Charlie-Charlie on the national political stage. They dismiss his quest in prose that shocks me.” The above is an excerpt from the article titled “Ndigbo and 2023”, written by Dan Agbese. In this piece, he challenged the people to own their blame for, as he stated, failing to “parley their business acumen into political wisdom.” When it comes to accurately diagnosing the…

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Friday, 16 September 2022 06:57

How Meghan, the witch of windsor, killed the Queen - Azu Ishiekwene

The only thing that compares in recent tweet villainy with the post of US-based Nigerian professor Uju Anya on Queen Elizabeth II, was perhaps the visit of the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, to the Windsor Castle. Yet, after her ordeal even Anya is back, recuperating from the injury inflicted by the hounds and five days in Twitter jail. If large sections of the British press needed any proof that Meghan killed the Queen her Saturday visit to Windsor confirmed it. There is no need to question how. About three weeks ago, the Duchess started a Podcast, Archetypes with Meghan.…

Friday, 16 September 2022 06:55

Okowa, the PDP and the Muslim-Muslim ticket - Femi Fani-Kayode

I have immense respect for Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state who happens to be the running mate to Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential election. He is a gentleman to the core and someone that I would never seek to disparage even though we belong to different political parties and we may not agree on everything. I am however constrained to react to his stated concerns and remarks about a Muslim/Muslim ticket which he voiced at a conference on Wednesday. It is pertinent to remind him that, even though those of us that stand with Bola Tinubu and Kashim…

Friday, 16 September 2022 06:54

How the Tinubu-Oluomo partnership underdeveloped Lagos transport sector - Justice Faloye

When one considers the statistics from Lagos Metro Area Transport Authority that 80% of the 22 million Lagosian commuters either walk (8.8m) or use ‘Danfo’ (9.9m) everyday, it becomes clear that the world's most populous Black city, Lagos has had its economic development arrested for 23yrs due to Tinubu's failure in Lagos transportation development. The transport networks to an economic center are like veins carrying blood to and from the heart to all parts of the body, which when choked squeeze out life from the economic system, resulting in stunted growth. With statistics showing that there are 6 ‘danfos’ to…

Thursday, 15 September 2022 06:38

Pomp and populism - Nina L. Khrushcheva

One of Queen Elizabeth II’s final acts was to accept the resignation of disgraced Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the most mendacious and incompetent of the 15 prime ministers who led the United Kingdom during her 70-year reign. No one could highlight, at least by contrast, the Queen’s strengths better than Britain’s unprincipled populist. Johnson was the only prime minister ever to draw the Queen directly – even deliberately – into scandal. In 2019, he asked her to prorogue (suspend) Parliament so that he could avoid resistance – or, indeed, any form of political scrutiny – as he pushed through Britain’s…

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