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Monday, 15 January 2024 04:43

Monica Dongban-Mensem: In God’s name, go! - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The three-person panel whom Monica Dongban-Mensem sent to Plateau State could not have wrought that amount of destruction without her active consent, if not instruction. It is simply inconceivable that a Justice of Appeal Court, like Okon Abang – sworn in only in October 2023 – could have gone to the home state of the President of the Court to confidently wreak so much political damage without her explicit instruction. Last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal in Plateau was rogue, procured and perverse. It set aside the reasoning of the Court which denied the people…

Sunday, 14 January 2024 04:44

Ogboni cult in Betta Edu and T.B. Joshua - Festus Adedayo

The “Edan” is a Yoruba Ogboni cult insignia, an emblem of membership in the Ogboni society. It is a cylindrical duality of male and female brass figures with iron stems attached to it. Mostly joined at the top by an iron chain, the edan is said to signify old age, experience, knowledge, and wisdom. The female edan also has a beard motif. It recreates the image of the goddess, Edan, a manlike woman, an “Obinrin bi okunrin” who possesses the wisdom of a Babalawo – diviner – and the epicenter of human morality. This image is intermixed with the supernatural…

Sunday, 14 January 2024 04:42

The SeedPlot for bountiful harvests (2) - Taiwo Akinola

The Critical Environments for Bountiful Harvests But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully ….. for God loveth a cheerful giver ~ 2 Corinthians 9:6-7. Introduction One of the amazing characteristics of normal human beings is their ever so insatiable desire for a better life. Excitingly, the Lord Jesus declared that all things are possible to whosoever believes (Mark 9:23). Thus, you can harvest whatsoever you desire in prayer, if you can believe God for it (Mark 11:24). Now, one might like the idea of a bountiful…

Friday, 12 January 2024 04:54

Reflections on Adesina’s work with Buhari - Azu Ishiekwene

I knew Femi Adesina when he was “Daddy Tobi.” He still is, of course. But back in the day when we were neighbours in “Olowora Inside”, a Lagos suburb, when you could call to a neighbour from your frontage, often by using the name of their first child, that was how we called Femi: Daddy Tobi. I have heard people complain that a friend in government is a friend lost. I have seen it too – friends who are not only lost but who are also happy to lose themselves once in power or positions of influence. I don’t know…

Thursday, 11 January 2024 04:40

There is no defending TB Joshua - Abimbola Adelakun

For those of you who watched the BBC Africa documentary, Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (three episodes), an expose on the Synagogue Church of All Nations’ late founder Temitope Joshua and still insist on defending him, I have four words: you are not serious. Yes, the whole lot of you. Your faces are looking funny in the light. Some defenders—understandably—grapple with the contradictions of a man who artfully constructed his public image as a good yet profoundly misunderstood man. The rest of you, still bonded into Joshua’s cult of personality, are being obtuse. You query, why now that he…

Monday, 08 January 2024 04:45

Cotonou degrees and Nigeria’s wimpy education policy - Hassan Gimba

Last week, we got a dose of what investigative journalism ought to be. Umar Audu, a promising young journalist, proved to be an outstanding student of his mentor, Ja’afar Ja’afar, an investigative journalist of the first order. Reporting for Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar’s online newspaper, Umar Audu went underground to bag a degree in Mass Communication from a university in the Benin Republic. It is a report worthy of the highest award in the land for investigative journalism. “This certificate will be delivered to you just like you ordered a pizza or something, and you give them your location, and it…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:32

Akwa Ibom’s N32 billion Yamoussoukro Basilica - Festus Adedayo

One single thread links Umo Eno, self-styled pastor governor of Akwa Ibom State, his predecessor, Emmanuel Udom and Felix Houphouet-Boigny. It is the religious bigotry and senselessness behind the Akwa Ibom International Worship Centre and the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire. While Eno and Udom constructed a worship centre said to have gulped a frighteningly high N32 billion, Houphouet-Boigny also constructed a monumental architectural edifice in his Yamoussoukro village worth $300 million between 1985 and 1989. Yamoussoukro was regarded as a provincial town that boasted only a mere 220,000 inhabitants and characterized by low-density and…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:31

The SeedPlot for bountiful harvests (1) - Taiwo Akinola

Understanding the Basic Fundamentals of Bountiful Harvests Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest ~ John 4:35. Introduction It’s a new year, and a new season of our lives! I seize this moment therefore to say happy new year to all my reading audience, and I pray that God’s mercy will accompany you all the way through, in Jesus name. Amen. Meanwhile, good understanding is a major pathway to favour (Proverbs 13:15). In all…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:30

Article of faith: Prayer for the fruit of the Holy Spirit (1) - Femi Aribisala

Let Your peace flow in us like a river.Lord God Almighty, we want to thank you this morning for Your everlasting love.We want to thank You, Father, that it is You and no one else, who is God.For our God is love and You love us with an everlasting love. Lord, we are so grateful that it pleased You to give to us, not another spirit, but Your Holy Spirit, the Most Wonderful Person in the Universe.Spirit of the living God, You are our most precious diadem.You are the crowning glory of the manifestation of the love of God in…

Friday, 05 January 2024 04:46

In pursuit of the last Hamas - Azu Ishiekwene

After futile attempts by others to get the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of genocide against the parties in the war in Gaza, South Africa raised the stakes by filing a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Unlike the ICC, the ICJ is an organ of the UN for civil complaints, and Israel is a signatory to its charter. But South Africa’s latest action may well be symbolic. It means nothing to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has sworn not to stop the war in Gaza until the last member…

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Wednesday, 03 January 2024 04:35

Media trial: Is Tinubu’s Obazee team a mirror of Buhari’s Ode probe panel? - Yushau A. Shuaib

In the past couple of weeks, the media has been awash with reported cases of monumental scandals involving individuals and organisations associated with the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Some of the reports claim that the suspects not only looted billions in local and foreign currencies from the Nigerian treasury but there are equally others to be exposed for re-looting the so-called recovered loot. The former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, was detained for several weeks before being arraigned in court for the massive abuse he has been alleged as having subjected his office…

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 04:29

Tinubu’s palliatives: What goes around comes aground - Banji Ojewale

What goes around comes aground: Tinubu is under the guidance of Okigbo’s cursed star. He is planting seeds certain to grow into labyrinthine forests with the potential to ground us. He’s going his predecessor’s way, throwing free cash at challenges on the ground, when, according to experts, he could use this money to address strategic needs of the weak, who make up the majority. Those who came before him also walked this pseudo-welfarist route of easy cash solution and flopped. There was/is little to show for the billions they spent as reliefs. The universal principle is that what goes around…

Monday, 01 January 2024 04:41

Why a President should not be a Minister - Hassan Gimba

An Igbo adage says that when an anomaly persists for one year, it becomes the norm. So slowly, steadily but surely, it is becoming a norm, an accepted aberration, for a president in Nigeria to appoint himself as a minister. It is like saying in a country of 200 million-plus, there is no one good or capable enough to hold that particular office except the man entrusted with the running of the nation. It was President Olusegun Obasanjo that started it. Nicknamed the “Trinity President” in some quarters, for six out of his eight years in office, i.e., from 1999…

Sunday, 31 December 2023 04:24

Life, Akeredolu, Na’Abba and the “Ebi npa wa” shame - Festus Adedayo

For the Algerian journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist, Albert Camus, life is meaningless and absurd. To him, it is inexplicable why we live, struggle all through and die. The meaninglessness of life is explained in his book The Myth of Sisyphus where he captures the absurdity of the god, Sisyphus struggling to push a rock up the mountain. The rock is pushed uphill; the rock rolls back in an endless, fruitless fight of forces. It is what human life represents to the writer. You cannot have a full…

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