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Sunday, 11 July 2021 05:54

Will Buhari learn from Zuma in Estcourt prison? - Festus Adedayo

In ex-President Jacob Zuma’s jailing for 15 months by South Africa’s Constitutional Court, Africa and humanity in general are dragged to school by the nape of their dresses. Author of celebrated Yoruba classic, Igbi Aye Nyi – Life swivels like a wind – T. A. A. Ladele, had earlier taught the world one or two of the Zuma lessons. Written in 1978, Ladele, an Okeho, Oyo State-born History teacher at Durbar College, Oyo and pioneer Headmaster of Baptist School, Iwere-Ile, was one of Nigeria’s early writers. In, Igbi Aye Nyi, the 1920-born writer sought to teach us all about the…

Sunday, 11 July 2021 05:52

Personal discipline: A major hallmark of christian discipleship - Taiwo Akinola

I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway ~ 1 Corinthians 9:27. Introduction Not many people today want to hear about discipline and self denial. Gratification of personal desires, indulgences and unqualified pursuit of self interests have rather become more appealing in our present day societies. In public services, politics, governance as well as in inter-personal relationships, the culture of “what’s in this for me” is fast eroding the virtues of sacrificing our interests for a higher cause. However, if we…

Sunday, 11 July 2021 05:51

Article of faith: Dead to the law, married to Christ - Femi Aribisala

Marriage is at the centre of the gospel. The gospel of Jesus Christ is about a wife espoused to one husband, and about a husband who gave himself for his wife. Paul says: “I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Him.” (2 Corinthians 11:2). Therefore, the opening salvo of Jesus’ long retinue of miracles was fired first at a wedding in Cana of Galilee where He turned water into wine. Bride and groom John the Baptist says: “He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend…

Friday, 09 July 2021 05:50

The Party is over, really? - Azu Ishiekwene

If the defections from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) continue at the current pace, the only people left in the opposition may be those to pack and return the chairs to storage before the next general elections in two years. It’s not funny. Apart from Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo who bucked the trend one year ago when he moved from APC to PDP on the eve of an off-season election, the drift has been the other way. In eight months, three governors – Dave Umahi, Ebonyi; Ben Ayade, Cross River; and Bello…

Friday, 09 July 2021 05:46

Sexual affinity in friendship, marriage: The contradictions - Michael West

In recent times, some of the issues I attended to are inimically cancerous to good relationships and marriages. Issues treated below are some of the root causes of the problems plaguing several young marriages. Turning Bedroom to ‘War Room' Previously, I had published a letter by a reader of this column, Mrs Anonymous, wherein she stated her pains and frustration in her marriage as a result of near nil sexual intimacy. According to her mail, she had been married for 10 years but all has since not been well especially in the bedroom. I did promise to attend to her…

Friday, 09 July 2021 05:45

The economic fundamentals of Chinese communism’s successes and failures - Nancy Qian

“Over the past hundred years, the [Communist Party of China] has united and led the Chinese people in writing the most magnificent chapter in the millennia-long history of the Chinese nation,” President Xi Jinping declared at the CPC’s centennial celebration, in a speech that emphasized the Party’s role in driving China’s success, including its economic rise. But the CPC’s economic record is actually mixed, and even those who recognize this often overlook that its successes and failures stem from the same economic fundamentals. Xi is right that, under the CPC’s leadership, China has achieved the “historic leap” from one of…

Thursday, 08 July 2021 05:47

El-Rufai and the cows in human skin - Abimbola Adelakun

In May, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, was asked to clarify the statement he made nine years ago about the Fulani and their propensity to carry out maniacal violence against others. Rather than show that he had reflected on his injudicious remark and was ready to disclaim it, he doubled down. According to him, “The Fulani (man) never forgets…when he is innocently targeted and killed and the authorities do nothing. He will never forget and he will come back for revenge.” El-Rufai might be someone whose humanity needs tweaking, but he is not ignorant. If he says the Fulani are…

Thursday, 08 July 2021 05:46

Southern governors: Stirring or just filibustering? - Bola Bolawole

The 17 Southern governors met again last Monday in Lagos to discuss and or respond to national issues of common interest to them and their people. At the end, they issued a communique which was well measured and apt, addressing all the germane issues in a mature, responsible, and responsive manner. The communique, I dare to say, hallmarked civility without compromising virtues. The North and its uncouth, irascible, rambunctious leaders and self-appointed spokespersons have a lot to learn from the Southern governors. Despite provocations and assaults from the North, the Southern governors have kept their cool and have refrained from…

Thursday, 08 July 2021 05:44

I regret supporting Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB - Reno Omokri

Before Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, I did not know who he was. I just defended his right to freedom of expression and association. Various Igbo leaders called me privately to thank me. It would be wrong to mention their names, because of the challenges of the moment. When Kanu was rearrested, I called a British government official and got the facts. I was the first (not one of the first. The first) to reveal that he was arrested in Kenya, and not in The UK. After I released this information, the media ran with it. Yesterday, a former Presidential candidate…

Wednesday, 07 July 2021 05:43

Fracturing states in Africa are redrawing colonial maps - J. Brian Atwood

The Ethiopian state of Tigray is the latest region to attempt to break away from the central government of an African nation. The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front retook the capital city of Mekelle last week, setting off celebrations by civilians suffering at the hands of the Ethiopian military. The conflict is far from over. Just a year before, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, had received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in calming ethnic tensions in his country. What happened? The answer may be found in revolutionary ethnic zeal, tension with a central government that may have ignored…

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Tuesday, 06 July 2021 05:50

Beyond the attack on Sunday Igboho: Thoughts of a concerned Nigerian - Femi Mimiko

I read the press statement put out by DSS on its early morning invasion of Sunday Igboho's abode, and couldn't stop wondering what was happening! How could a surprise armed attack by an agency of the State, on a man's premises, and without a search warrant, constitute the appropriate response to his rascality? How many hideouts of bandits and sundry highly disruptive elements wreaking havoc and making a boast of slaughtering soldiers has the DSS stormed in similar manner? Aren't we aware that some State governments sit at negotiating tables with unrepentant killer herdsmen? Didn't we read about one governor…

Tuesday, 06 July 2021 05:50

Techno-feudalism is taking over - Yanis Varoufakis

This is how capitalism ends: not with a revolutionary bang, but with an evolutionary whimper. Just as it displaced feudalism gradually, surreptitiously, until one day the bulk of human relations were market-based and feudalism was swept away, so capitalism today is being toppled by a new economic mode: techno-feudalism. This is a large claim that comes on the heels of many premature forecasts of capitalism’s demise, especially from the left. But this time it may well be true. The clues have been visible for a while. Bond and share prices, which should be moving in sharply opposite directions, have been…

Monday, 05 July 2021 15:01

Reflections on the man Nnamdi Kanu - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yesterday I announced that I would unveal my thoughts regarding the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu. Several people reached out, advising me to be neutral and steer clear of political discourse. They meant well for a young female writer with a reputation to protect, an image to project, and the care not to cause offense. I almost yielded but changed my mind this morning. The Igbos are the same people about whom I wrote my current published work, In Blood and War, a book set in the then troubled Biafra. On principle, I consider it unethical to make money off retelling…

Monday, 05 July 2021 05:56

Nigeria police and desceration of our sacred spirituality - Tola Adeniyi

Nigerians of all faiths should rise up in condemnation of the Nigeria police men who stripped fellow human beings to their underpants and yanked off their symbols of self protection at the recent Rally at Ojota, Lagos. It should be emphasized that what those hapless citizens had on them were not in any way different from the Christian Cross or the Muslim Tesubah or the Catholic Rosary or whatever object including the bullet- roof vest that individuals believe can offer them self protection. This barbaric act of the Nigeria Police was what Colonialists did to the Tivs in Nigeria and…

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