Opinion

As big names continue to emerge on the roll call of presidential aspirants the biggest issue of the next year’s election, crippling insecurity, should be constantly put on the sharpest focus. Issues of elections are never invented by politicians. The condition of the economy, polity and society invariably throw up the issues to be addressed in every election. The 2023 election would not be different as the issues are manifest in the concrete situation. So as Marxists would put it scientifically, what is direly needed now is a “concrete analysis of a concrete situation” for the ultimate purpose of action.…
“Once again, I would like to quote the late Gen. Sani Abacha: ‘Any insurgency that lasts more than two hours, a government official has a hand in it” – Ibrahim B. Babangida. “God just exposed the corruption in the railway ticketing (with the recent bandits' attack on the Abuja - Kaduna train)! No wonder they did not want to introduce online booking; when it was eventually introduced, it was always said to have been fully booked, especially the business class. Currently, they are having problems with the Chinese because the Chinese want to run the train and introduce real online…
Monday, 11 April 2022 06:26

Now, nowhere is safe (2) - Hassan Gimba

I believe Nigerians should no longer accept to be fooled by those who use their sentiments to get into office. We must not forget yesterday if we want to correct our today for our tomorrow to be great. On 26 March 2018, when we warned on this page under the screaming headline, ‘Mr President, Nigeria is at War!’, some powerful figures had since told us they had given money to (or empowered the) enemies of Nigeria “to stop banditry”! But it is on record that we said: “Nigeria is in a state of war but it looks as if we…
The fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reminded us of the unforeseeable disruptions constantly confronting the global economy. We have been taught this lesson many times. No one could have predicted the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and few anticipated the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, or Donald Trump’s election, which resulted in the United States turning toward protectionism and nationalism. Even those who did anticipate these crises could not have said with any precision when they would occur. Each of these events has had enormous macroeconomic consequences. The pandemic called our attention to our seemingly robust economies’…
A single thread links the duo of Dino Melaye, former Senator representing Kogi West in the federal parliament and Shakespearean tragic character, Cinna the Poet: their individual resort to metaphysics to explain their predicament and where they stood. While Cinna never lived to tell the story, Melaye, severally dubbed an infantile-mind-trapped-in-an-adult-body – apologies to Farooq Kperogi – may by now have gone into the studio to wax yet another of his sickening pediatric comic skits. Rome had been enveloped in violent disorder and utter chaos in the thick of the assassination of Julius Caesar, its fallen emperor. It was also…
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man ~ Proverbs 3:3-4. Introduction: No situation in life can ever be comparable with the matchless possibilities that are available to the believers in Christ Jesus. Yes, sometimes, we feel like failures, and because we think we lost grips on some important things in life, we feel unloved, worthless and unwelcome in certain circles. Even then, God’s favour can always change the storylines. No one can…
The devil holds men in bondage through the singular sin of the love of life. We steal, cheat, fight, kill, commit adultery and other sins to save our lives. Therefore, to repent of sin is to repent of the love of life. Jesus demonstrated that our fear of death is baseless by laying down His life and then rising from the dead. This is because we sin in the determination to defend, enhance, and promote our lives. But the man who turns the other cheek does not sin. We overcome sin by laying down our lives. Indeed, no man can…
On March 26 at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the All Progressives Congress (APC), reinvented a version of consensus politics that ancient Rome and Greece would have been proud of. After years of in-fighting and decay, and fearing that the opposition might rebound, the ruling party finally called its overdue convention. It rounded up aspirants who were jostling for its executive positions and told them, at gunpoint, that it was time to try something new: consensus. Different tendencies in APC had run amok. President Muhammadu Buhari had to put his foot down and cut a deal with governors that conceded the…
Last week, a man burnt his wife and her younger brother to death in a bad marriage situation. A close friend of the deceased who is also a relationship coach and a Pastor, Moses Abiola, sent in this write-up to warn against staying too long and keeping quiet in bad marriage situation. Read on: In the past few weeks, Michael West has been running a series on bad marriage in which preventive and way forward out of dangerous unions have been offered. As for those who think that every marital crisis can be resolved and also for those who do…
Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is not a flippant person; neither is he a busybody and meddlesome interloper. He is a reticent person, self-effacing and not like many other pastors who hug the limelight, puff and show off what they have as well as what God has not deposited in them. Adeboye speaks sparingly on national issues and refrains from taking sides on the raging issues of our time. If he talks, then, it means he is compelled to talk. And when he talks, he measures his speech. If he comes hard…
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PDP governors urge Tinubu to review economic policies amid rising hardship

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Older adults opened up about things they ‘took for granted’ in their 20s and 30s

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Influencer eats pig feed in extreme attempt to save money

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FG excited as pro-Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa arrested in Finland on terrorism charges

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What to know after Day 1004 of Russia-Ukraine war

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Nigeria comes top in instant payment system inclusivity index in Africa

Nigeria’s instant payment system is projected to advance to the maturity inclusion spectrum ahead of…
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Nigeria awarded 3-0 win over Libya after airport fiasco

Nigeria have been awarded a 3-0 victory over Libya, and three vital points, from their…

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