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Sunday, 13 March 2022 06:29

Vladimir Putin: A miracle defender of Christianity or the most evil man? - Tim Costello

The Russian president’s Orthodox faith is central to his worldview but he has used it to justify invasion and violence in God’s name With Russia invading Ukraine, its president, Vladimir Putin, has been painted by many in the western media as the most evil man in the world. Commentators are asserting that this premeditated act is evil. I do not disagree. To see a war in Europe nearly 80 years after the end of the second world war is unthinkable. What other words describe such violence and the man who singlehandedly has authorised this assault? Now that Putin has twice…

Sunday, 13 March 2022 06:28

Bamise’s murder and this Cryptocurrency generation - Festus Adedayo

On Saturday, March 12, 2022, I delivered the paper below at the Kegites Club's celebration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo's 85th birthday which held at the OOPL (Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library) in Abeokuta, Ogun State, with him in attendance: Yesterday, at the installation of the new Olubadan of Ibadanland, I took my time to listen to his cognomen, with studied interest. I came out of the encounter first, with laughter, then shock and trepidation. His Royal Majesty's praise chants describe him as "omo o toro obe, toro abe; boo bun mi l'obe, bun mi l’abe nitori abe dun j’obe lo” Roughly…

Sunday, 13 March 2022 06:27

Necessary preparations for a stream of new things! - Taiwo Akinola

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God ~ 2 Chronicles 27:6. Introduction: When you look closely into the life of any normal human being, one of the amazing things you will quickly notice is that unquenchable desire or dream for a better life. Happily, God Himself is in it! He designed us originally to dominate, and not to be dominated, curtailed or halted by the elemental forces here on earth (Genesis 1:26-28)! However, we have to get really ready to fully partake of the divine promises of new things in the realm of…

Sunday, 13 March 2022 06:25

Article of faith: Contradictions that do not contradict (2) - Femi Aribisala

Must we reconcile ourselves to God or will God reconcile Himself to us? Paul says: “Nothing shall separate us from the love of God.” (Romans 8:38-39). I disagree, saying: “Sin can separate us from the love of God.” Am I not contradicting the scriptures? No! There is no contradiction whatsoever. The Bible says both and we need to know why. It says nothing shall separate us from the love of God, and it also says sin can separate us from the love of God. Jesus says: “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.” (Matthew…

Friday, 11 March 2022 14:10

This is why Putin can’t back down - David Brooks

Carl von Clausewitz famously asserted that war is the continuation of politics by other means. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the continuation of identity politics by other means. I don’t know about you, but I’ve found the writings of conventional international relations experts to be not very helpful in understanding what this whole crisis is about. But I’ve found the writing of experts in social psychology to be enormously helpful. That’s because Vladimir Putin is not a conventional great power politician. He’s fundamentally an identity entrepreneur. His singular achievement has been to help Russians to recover from a psychic…

Friday, 11 March 2022 06:12

Buni and pocket-filling black legs in corridors of power - Rotimi Akeredolu

With nostalgia, one can recall the moments of our struggle as compatriots from all walks of life enunciated and berthed Nigeria's most ingeniously successful political network. Without being immodest, APC's birth was a novel instance. The party’s philosophical beacon woven around its ideological leaning was alluring. Undoubtedly, the firm leadership, candour and honesty exemplified by President Muhammadu Buhari who heads the administration that is the product of the APC deserve no less of support and complimentary responsibilities from all stakeholders. The installation of the Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the APC was beyond a call to service.…

Friday, 11 March 2022 06:10

APC putting everyone at risk by endangering itself - Azu Ishiekwene

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) looks determined to set itself on fire, even though the story out there is that the match box has been snatched from the hand of its interim chairman and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni. The danger still looms. After toppling the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, the APC turned on itself, feasting on its own entrails. Of course, the winner-takes-all factor in a presidential system can tempt winners to lose their heads. In the case of APC, however, the party lost its head even before it was…

Thursday, 10 March 2022 06:27

Markets are in denial about nuclear risk - Willem H. Buiter

Financial markets do not seem to be pricing in the full risks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The absence of any meaningful negative response in equity, corporate debt, and sovereign debt markets in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan would barely make sense even if there was no chance of the situation escalating into an open conflict between NATO and Russia. But that is not the only real risk; so, too, is the threat of the conflict going nuclear. Outside Ukraine and Russia, the likely short-term economic and financial effects of Vladimir Putin’s war are material but manageable, provided…

Thursday, 10 March 2022 06:25

To Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye at 80.... - Bola Bolawole

Last week, our spiritual Daddy, Enoch Adejare Adeboye, aka Daddy G. O., General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) turned an octogenarian; precisely on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Let somebody shout halleluyah! To mark the event, a lot of activities were lined up, mostly aimed at winning souls. Winning eighty million souls was the target, a million souls for each of the years it has pleased God to let our Daddy live so far on Mother Earth. Special evangelism teams were set up everywhere there was an RCCG church to engage in house-to-house, one-on-one personal evangelism; crusades…

Wednesday, 09 March 2022 06:11

As she’s resourceful in Nigeria, so she’s valiant in Togo; yet shortchanged everywhere - Debo Adesina

When it comes to the story of humanity, beauty and dignity, courage and compassion, diligence and perseverance constitute the central theme. And none of God’s creations embodies all of these more than a Woman. Today, the world pays a huge price for not according her the deserved place in the scheme of arrangements. Human happiness is circumscribed, progress is delayed and growth is gravely stunted when women are, willfully or inadvertently, denied seats at the table, sentenced to poverty or kept in captivity. It bears repeating: the McKenzie Institute’s report that 26% of today’s global GDP, about 24 trillion dollars,…

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Monday, 07 March 2022 06:15

Calling for assassination of Putin, US could draw the fire against itself - Global Times

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's recent remarks on Russian President Vladimir Putin indicate some US politicians, especially the far right from the Republican Party, tend to have a kind of latent Nazism and terrorism. The White House on Friday distanced itself from Graham's rhetoric on Putin. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a press briefing, "That is not the position of the US government and certainly not a statement you'd hear come from the mouth of anybody in this administration." In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Graham said he hopes someone in Russia will understand that…

Monday, 07 March 2022 06:12

Ukraine: Is Third World War loading? (2) - Bola Bolawole

As we said here last week, both the 1st and 2nd world wars had remote and immediate causes, and the epicentre of the wars was Europe before other parts of the world gradually got sucked into the vortex. The causes of the wars were European in nature - so also the dramatis personae. The issues in dispute were historically, culturally, politically, economically, and militarily European. Other nations sucked into the wars, Africans inclusive, only carried the can for Europe! In the unfolding Ukraine/Russia war, the theatre of war remains Europe; the major actors remain European; the major issues in contention…

Sunday, 06 March 2022 06:11

Basic Bible fundamentals of fearful breakthroughs - Taiwo Akinola

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him ~ Psalms 67:7. Introduction: No matter the level of glory you have attained in life, there are still many vacancies ahead of you. This is not a letdown but an assurance that promotion is still possible for you. For as long as the earth lasts, no matter what, you should never condone any level-identity syndrome in your destiny. God takes special delight in the continuous progress and the wholistic prosperity of His people (Deuteronomy 1:5-8; Psalms 35:27; 3 John 1:2). Besides, our prosperity is a major…

Sunday, 06 March 2022 06:09

Article of faith: Contradictions that do not contradict (1) - Femi Aribisala

I told God in Lagos that I needed a car. He told someone in Port Harcourt to send me his car. The Lord told him: “Femi Aribisala needs your car in Lagos. I want you to send it to him.” That is how I became the owner of a Toyota Rav 4. Nevertheless, when someone asked me, I maintained that a car is not a blessing of God. That is not a contradiction. That is wisdom. Solomon says: “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.” (Proverbs 10:22). A car can add sorrow.…

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