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Monday, 05 July 2021 05:53

Nigeria: As fascism bares its fangs... - Bola Bolawole

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me” – Martin Niemoller. Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984) was a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany who emerged an outspoken public enemy of fascist Adolf Hitler, spending the last…

Monday, 05 July 2021 05:49

The twisted psychology of capitalism - and why it won’t hold sway forever - Tim Jackson

Postwar capitalism trades not on happiness but on unhappiness. If you listen to economists talk about the world right now, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little confused. The pandemic precipitated the worst recession since the stock market crash of 1929. Now, we’re told, the U.S. and China could be heading for the fastest recovery on record. But it’s set to be uneven—a “tale of two recoveries,” according to the World Bank. The best of times for the rich. The worst of times for the poor. Same as it ever was. What does this all mean as we emerge from…

Sunday, 04 July 2021 06:08

Igboho, Kanu, Kimathi and betrayals on the soil of Kenya - Festus Adedayo

The claim that Kenya was where Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) was arrested and extradited to Nigeria had better not be true. Kenya? While Nigeria has stubbornly but ostensibly hidden the identity of its accomplice nation in the crude and gangsterish abduction saga, the United Kingdom, whose nationality Kanu holds, through Dean Hurlock, Head of Communications at the British High Commission in Nigeria, swiftly denied that the event took place on its soil. Kenya’s High Commissioner, Wilfred Machage, attempted to go the UK route by disclaiming the country’s involvement in the messy saga. Kanu’s brother,…

Sunday, 04 July 2021 06:06

Total deliverance on Mount Zion (4) - Taiwo Akinola

And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity ~ Luke 13:12. Introduction: There are various streams of demonic entanglement which Satan uses to gain advantage over people with a view to stealing their lots and destroying their destinies. These can be conveniently classified into three broad categories: our sins, the sins of other people and our general failure to live the genuine Christian life. Our personal sins of commission and omission generally poke holes in the hedges of protection that God has erected around us. Sins leave…

Sunday, 04 July 2021 06:04

Article of faith: Paying the price - Femi Aribisala

Have you ever been to an expensive wedding that was a no-holds-barred affair? The champagne was ordered custom-made from France. The wedding cake was a three-story building. Forget about the wedding, but tell me, what happened to the marriage? One year later, they got divorced. What a waste of money. All that expenditure went up in smoke. You did not know at the time that the best man was also a divorce lawyer. Have you not noticed that the rich tend to be more security conscious than others? Why is that? They have more to lose and therefore have more…

Friday, 02 July 2021 05:59

Banjo, the accidental Biafran - Dare Babarinsa

The arrest and trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed IPOB, is going to dominate the news for many months to come. The trial promises to be a cause celebre, one of those rare cases in which politics, criminality and sensation are mixed with high drama. It is indeed a fitting irony that Kanu, despite his frenzied rhetoric, including referring to his country as a zoo, he was still sober enough to carry a Nigerian passport. We look forward to many more sting operations that would bring to justice leaders of Boko Haram terrorist group and other outlaw organisations.…

Friday, 02 July 2021 05:58

Nnamdi Kanu: Buhari finally captures a hero of his own making - Abimbola Adelakun

Watching Attorney-General of the Federation and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, slogging through a written speech to announce the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, I got the impression that this was a triumphalist moment for him and the regime he fronted. The Philistines have finally bagged Samson, and you can expect them to backslap themselves into weariness. Considering no one else has yanked their chain more than Kanu, this must be the peak of their achievements. Not only did they sacrifice administrative dignity to pursue him, but they also invested a disproportionate amount of…

Friday, 02 July 2021 05:56

Ataga and the woman in the mirror - Azu Ishiekwene

In one of my early journalism classes, my teacher, Olatunji Dare, said nothing sells like a judicious mix of crime, sex and money. It’s well over 35 years since he said those words and yet they ring true like yesterday.For over one week now, the country has been riveted on the tragic story of the murder of Michael Usifo Ataga, the CEO of Super TV, a Lagos-based content company. The heart-rending episode appears to have an injudicious mix of all three ingredients that Dare spoke about in one crime scene.It’s a deeply tragic and troubling tale that has produced emergency…

Friday, 02 July 2021 05:55

Chidinma: Nemesis of sugar daddies, parental failure - Michael West

This generation of youths are in danger of self-immolation. This is due to their flagrant indulgence in immoral lifestyle such as drug abuse, prostitution, cultism, financial crimes, armed robbery and Yahoo plus which is euphemism for money rituals. Many of them have become wayward, obfuscate, nonchalant, irreverent, daredevil, unpredictable, heartless, drug and sex addicts, killers, grossly pretentious and sacrilegiously rebellious. The last one week has been a shocking one in the country over the gruesome killing of a man, Usifo Ataga, said to be a billionaire and proprietor of Super TV. The incident has since dominated the media space and…

Thursday, 01 July 2021 05:47

The Chidinma conundrum - Bola Bolawole

“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon the rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wiped her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness” – Proverbs 30: 19 & 20. As the Acting Deputy Editor charged with the editing of the Sunday PUNCH in the early 1990s, I travelled to Katsina…

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Wednesday, 30 June 2021 05:38

Next Level is self-destruction with Twitter - Dele Sobowale

“The rate of change in our time is so swift; that an individual of ordinary length of life will be called on to face novel situations which have no parallel in the past. The fixed person for the fixed duties, who in the old society was such a God-send, will, in the future, be a public danger” – Alfred N Whitehead, 1861-1947. The rate of change before 1947, which Whitehead called “so swift”, would today be regarded as standing still. He died two years after World War II ended. During that war, the earliest reports of combat would reach the…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:46

How colonialism’s legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today - Patrick Greiner

While fossil fuels were powering wealthy nations’ economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, many countries across the Global South remained largely impoverished. Today, all that burning of oil, coal and natural gas has warmed the planet toward dangerous levels, and science shows that fossil fuel use must decline to slow climate change. At the same time, more than 40% of the global population survives on less than US$5.50 a day, primarily in developing countries. Fossil fuels are still among the cheapest ways to power economic growth, making them hard for developing countries to ignore. So, can we find…

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 05:38

The G7 vaccine charade - James K. Galbraith

In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s “first big test … lies in what America does to help vaccinate the rest of the world against COVID-19.” And Power herself is quoted as saying that, “It’s about a very, very tangible, results-oriented agenda.” Results seemed to follow. At the G7 summit, Goldberg duly reports, Biden announced that the US would contribute 500 million vaccine doses for use in “low- and middle-income countries.” According to Goldberg,…

Monday, 28 June 2021 05:50

The TB Joshua I knew... (II) - Bola Bolawole

Prophet T also tried to match-make for me at the Synagogue. One day as we were in his sitting room, he sent for a lady; the lady came and knelt down at his feet. I cannot remember what they discussed but after she left, Prophet T turned to me and said “Se e like lady yen?” (Do you like that lady?). According to him, she was a good girl. By this time a bonding had developed between Prophet T and me; so I actually gave his proposition a thought. The next day on my way to the Synagogue, I muted…

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