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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…

Monday, 20 June 2022 06:48

Obi and other ‘unlikely suspects’ - Wole Olaoye

Is Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) the servant-leader Nigerians have been waiting for, or should they look for another? In the last ten years, there have been calls for a Third Force in the Nigerian political firmament to counter the dominance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC). Earlier attempts had failed. But this time around, it seems there are unprecedented political stirrings and the coming of age of the electronic village square of the Internet. Old fashioned, carnival-like campaign rallies are still in vogue. However, more than ever before, the internet is playing…

Monday, 20 June 2022 06:47

Peter Obi and the audacity of hope - Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo

On Monday, August 4, 2004, one week after he made a speech at the Democratic Party’s convention in Boston, I wrote a column for Nigeriaworld called “Obama: An audacity of hope?” Here is how the column started. “Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Congresswoman, recently visited the White House with a congressional delegation. Making her way out, she passed President Bush, and the president literally jumped back on seeing “Obama” button pinned to her chest. Guessing what the president was thinking, she told him, “Mr. President, it is Obama with a “b”. Still, the president did not get it. The congresswoman briefly…

Monday, 20 June 2022 06:44

To the Air Peace pilot who flew Boeing triple 7 to Nigeria - Prisca Sam-Duru

Victor Egonu was one of the best pilots Nigeria ever produced. He was the immediate past Director Flight Operation with Air Peace. He joined Air Peace in 2014 as its first Head of Pilots Training and later became the Chief Pilot in 2015 and Director of Flight Operations in 2019. Born on August 20, 1959 in the UK, his passing away on Monday June 6, 2022, in London, at a period he was already thinking of retirement, leaves nothing but pain in the hearts of the visionary and compassionate professional’s employer as well as others whose lives he impacted. Few…

Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:08

Peter Obi, the Obi-dient army and the audacity of hope - Osmund Agbo

It’s much easier swimming in a shark-infested water than to navigate the landmine-ridden path of Anambra politics. Nothing compares. Not that politics is ever a ping-pong game for the chicken-hearted anywhere in the world, but if you have to compete in a group where your opponents include those with a trailer load of money and others with king-size influence, not afraid to deploy every arsenal within reach, you would get a little sense of what I am talking about. Unfortunately, the political fights were never about the people. It bothered on special interests which was why for many years, a…

Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:06

The Peter Obi tsunami APC and PDP are underrating - Farooq A. Kperogi

Former Anambra State governor Peter Obi is inspiring a powerful, social media-enabled, youth-led political tidal wave that will radically change the contours of the 2023 election. But APC and PDP operatives, still inebriated with the overconfidence of the size and deep pockets of their parties, are sniggering at the suggestion that Obi’s Labour Party will change the game next year. They comfort themselves with the mantra that there are no polling booths on social media where Obi’s devotees form noisy cyber silos. Well, there is no opponent more dangerous than an underestimated one. People who are habituated to the politics…

Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:04

The Muslim-Muslim ticket prostitute and her Quran - Festus Adedayo

Separating the Nigerian from his politics and religion is almost like a man trying to forcefully pull off a strand of hair from his moustache. It is akin to trying to prise off the glue that wedges Siamese twins together. Yoruba social worldview also offers an explanation of this difficulty. At a bandstand gig for Danjuma, Kano-born wealthy entrepreneur of the 1970s, owner of the defunct Agege Cinema and a man known in the Lagos social circuit as Yaro Maikudi, late Apala music exponent, Ayinla Omowura, had explained why he showered panegyrics on fans who decorated his forehead with crisp…

Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:02

Joy in the Holy Ghost (3) - Taiwo Akinola

Choosing Joy Amidst Trials My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing ~ James 1:2-4. Introduction: In the realities of the Christian life and of the peculiar times we live in today, we are bound to experience trials occasionally. We must, therefore, truly embrace and actively internalize this fact in our maturing processes as believers if we are to keep godly handles on our emotions amidst the diverse trials, persecutions…

Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:00

Article of faith: The blessing of peace (2) - Femi Aribisala

Jesus says: “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63). There is a spirit in the word of God. That spirit is peace. When God speaks, He speaks peace. 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). The things written in the Bible are for our peace. Jesus says: “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer,…

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Friday, 17 June 2022 06:43

On Peter Obi’s supposed ‘stinginess’ - Bianca Ojukwu

Sometime in 2009, ‘Mr’ (as he preferred to be addressed) Peter Obi, governor Of Anambra State at the time, visited Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and myself at Dallas, Texas. He came to deliver a get well message from Goodluck Jonathan and was billed to attend a black tie event at the Dallas Marriot. Curiously, he flew into Dallas airport with one small carry on luggage, which he insisted on wheeling around himself, and on getting to our residence requested to freshen up. He opened his carry on, filled with files and paperwork and a few toiletries and an extra shirt,…

Friday, 17 June 2022 06:39

Running mate as albatross: Tinubu’s choice - Azu Ishiekwene

That the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, Bola Tinubu, is exactly where the party’s last presidential candidate President Muhammadu Buhari was when he got the ticket eight years ago, shows just how our politics has stagnated, if not regressed. After Buhari won the APC ticket in December 2014, the next major hurdle was getting a running mate. In what appeared to be a breach of the understanding he had with Tinubu to be his running mate before the election - and on the basis of which Tinubu moved heaven and earth to support him - Buhari changed his mind…

Friday, 17 June 2022 06:38

Singleness is not a stigma - Ife Olatona

In Yoruba, my native language where I grew up in Nigeria, my first name means “love,” but I have yet to experience love, the romantic kind. I want to love, to be loved, to witness a shower of affection beyond declarations or a supposed responsibility, but I remain unmoored by the prospect of romance. How does one fall in love? Wouldn’t one fall out of it? Hard of hearing, I grew up quietly. Fully alive only with trusted kin, I was precocious yet sensitive, vulnerable. As the only person in my immediate family with hearing loss, I started speaking late.…

Thursday, 16 June 2022 06:39

Who wins Ekiti governorship polls? (2) - Bola Bolawole

D-Day is here! The Ekiti governorship election is two days away! Who wins the polls? As days become hours, the fear of Segun Oni, the SDP governorship candidate, has become the beginning of wisdom, especially for the Fayemi group! Gov. Kayode Fayemi is supporting his erstwhile Secretary to State Government (SSG), Abiodun Oyebanji. Analysts said it is the fear of Segun Oni that caused Fayemi to apply the reverse gear at last week’s APC presidential primary in Abuja. Many were surprised when Fayemi abandoned his presidential ambition and announced he was stepping down for Bola Tinubu. Did commonsense prevail in…

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