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Thursday, 21 April 2022 06:15

Osinachi: Questions begging for answers - Bola Bolawole

The sad and very unfortunate death, in controversial circumstances, of the popular Nigerian gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, has, once again, set tongues wagging about the vexed issue of domestic violence occasioning bodily harm, even death, in marriages and the views and position of Nigeria’s usually conservative Church fathers on marriage or marital vows often couched as Church doctrine or God’s position on marriage. To be sure, the number of husbands killing their wives and vice-versa is infinitesimal when compared to those who are not but, as we all know in journalism parlance, bad news make the headlines, travel faster and…

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:10

A putrid presidential Easter egg - Wole Soyinka

Easter greetings to you, Reverend Mathew Kukah and to all your followers. All has been said, I think. I am impelled however not to miss an opportunity to add my own Easter drop to the overflowing vessel of pietistic sentiments, if only to reassure Christians – and also Moslems in turn – that even we, non-believers, do partake of that same ethical communion to which most humanity aspire. Also, your Easter sermon opens up yet again those sluices of juridical hypocrisy to which we dare not cease to draw attention. Such, in the immediate, remains the plight of two young…

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 13:15

From the UK to Rwanda - Femi Fani-Kayode

The proposed legislation to send mainly African and Arab asylum seekers and immigrants that are attempting to settle in the United Kingdom to Rwanda by the British Government coupled with the threat by the leaders of a Swedish political party to publicly "drench the Koran in pig's blood" and "burn it" puts a lie to the assertion that Europe is a bastion of religious freedom and tolerance. It also proves that she is NOT the much touted eager and successful racial and cultural melting pot that she claims to be or a shining example of a righteous, equitable and just…

Monday, 18 April 2022 06:25

Tinubu: The testimonies of a disciple - Bola Bolawole

The 2023 presidential race, which many predictions have described as a race to nowhere, gathers momentum all the same! The theatrics of Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, who ran round the field in an orchestrated show of fitness as he made his presidential declaration, added drama – and distraction - to the race last week! But don't mind Amaechi; if fitness is all that is required, then, we should head to Oyingbo or Oke-Odo market in Lagos to scout for presidential candidates! In the two leading political parties of APC and PDP, most of the early risers and late-comers…

Monday, 18 April 2022 06:21

Security Implications of ASUU strikes - Hassan Gimba

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was founded in 1978. Its predecessor, the Nigerian Association of University Teachers (NAUT), was formed in 1965 covering academic staff at the University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, University of Ife and University of Lagos. According to its founders, ASUU is a trade union whose objectives include regulation of relations between academic staff and employers, encouraging the participation of its members in the affairs of the university system and the nation, and protecting and advancing the socio-economic and cultural interests of the nation. It is supposed to be…

Sunday, 17 April 2022 06:27

How Tinubu betrayed Osinbajo - Hisham Haroun

Since Vice President Yemi Osinbajo formally declared his candidacy for the presidency, the theme of treachery has been circulating in the political space notably propounded by the camp of Bola Tinubu, the other candidate for the exalted office. Osinbajo’s entry has been depicted as an act of disloyalty towards a political benefactor, a rebellion by a heedless son against a benevolent father and a grand betrayal. On the morning of April 15, Good Friday, residents of Abuja woke up to the sight of posters across the city featuring a photograph of the Vice President with the caption “The Judas who…

Sunday, 17 April 2022 06:26

Feeble dance of the Tinubu, Osinbajo masquerade - Festus Adedayo

The most appropriate representation of the impending 2023 presidential election contest for the Yoruba is what is called the Odun e’gun or the Egungun Festival contest. It is a festival cum contest in which masquerades file out in their rainbow colour regalia, with a mammoth crowd gathered to watch them dance. As at today, Bola Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo are Yoruba people’s two biggest masquerades in this odun egun. The Alagbaa, one entrusted with the traditional right to preside over the ancestral rites of the festival is however a Fulani – Muhammadu Buhari. By the way, the Alagbaa is very…

Sunday, 17 April 2022 06:24

Activating the power of Jesus’ resurrection - Taiwo Akinola

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death ~ Philippians 3:10. Introduction: The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most momentous events in human history, and the greatest mockery that death ever suffered (Luke 24:1-8). Death and grave never had it so bad; they were robbed of their highly priced victory because their powers couldn't hold Christ captive. When Jesus rose from the dead, He was actually fulfilling a vital part of God’s Agenda for the ages (Revelation 13:8). If He had not…

Sunday, 17 April 2022 06:23

Article of faith: Do Christians really like Jesus? - Femi Aribisala

The Bible is a book of prophecies. God says in the scriptures: “Don’t forget the many times I clearly told you what was going to happen in the future. For I am God – I only – and there is no other like me who can tell you what is going to happen. All I say will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.” (Isaiah 46:9-10). Even some of the historical situations presented in the scriptures are prophetic. Therefore, they are fulfilled again and again. For example, the persecution of Isaac by his brother Ishmael is re-enacted in…

Friday, 15 April 2022 06:16

Revisiting Yinka Odumakin’s ‘Watch the Watcher’ - Bola Bolawole

Yinka Odumakin (aka YO) died on Good Friday last year, specifically on April 2, 2021 but because of the importance attached to Good Friday by the erstwhile Afenifere spokesperson, the first anniversary of his transition is taking place not on April 2 but on Good Friday (April 15th) . The event will be marked with a book presentation and an inaugural lecture at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel. It is beyond dispute that YO, in the short time he lived, left his footprints in the sands of time; one of the gifts he left for us is his book of courage…

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Friday, 15 April 2022 06:15

Women die in troubled marriages because we slay singles - Azu Ishiekwene

A good number of those I have spoken with since the news of her tragic death broke on Friday night, said Nigerian gospel artiste, Osinachi Nwachukwu, 42, should not have died. She was such a tremendous gift to millions of people and inspired even millions more through her songs, yet she had not even reached the peak of her potential. During the Covid-19 lockdown when many struggled with anxiety, boredom and depression, a famous song in which she featured prominently, “Nara Ekele”, was repurposed by Tim Godfrey and Travis Greene and rendered in over 10 local and international languages, from…

Friday, 15 April 2022 06:12

Bad marriage: A straight talk on divorce! - Michael West

If marriage is run the way God the Initiator had ordained it from the beginning, there would not be need for separation or divorce. Human failure to imbibe the culture of love, tolerance, patience and forgiveness upon which relationships are built, engenders hostility and bitterness which do manifest as abuse and violence in marital relationship. Divorce found its way into our marital lexicon because of human attitudinal inadequacies and character flaws. And rather than deal with such bad traits, ego, pride and bad temperament seize the momentum to aggravate the already bad situation through diverse form of assaults. Being caught…

Thursday, 14 April 2022 06:19

Slandering Osinbajo with dubious parallelisms - Sola Adeyeye

Now that Yemi Osinbajo has declared his interest in the Presidency, it is time to answer the simpletons drawing wrong parallels in history by comparing PYO's putative intent (now turned declaration) to the sad parting of ways between Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola. Such comparison is rooted in abject ignorance and malignant mischief. We must clear these scurrilous insinuations from catawaulers whose sole intent is to dispense vicious calumny. The confusionists conjuring these poor parallelisms go as far as invoking the name of Judas Isacariot to demonise those who have acted outside their own scripts. Clearly, such comparison is rooted…

Wednesday, 13 April 2022 06:12

Insecurity as the biggest issue - Kayode Komolafe

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.…

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