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Sunday, 19 September 2021 06:05

Bawa, FFK, Shehu: Of slump, slum and somersault - Festus Adedayo

Last Thursday, when the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) reportedly slumped at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the story of the late enfant terrible of Oyo State politics, Busari Adelakun, sidled into my memory. Media reports said that Bawa slumped at an occasion commemorating the National Identity Day. Same last week, Nigeria was back to her English class session. Occasionally, some fortuitous occurrences force this country, a product of Mrs. Flora Shaw’s taxonomic ingenuity, to go learn some basic language meanings. This time, Nigeria had to contend with the difference or differences between “slump” and “somersault.” Questions…

Sunday, 19 September 2021 06:03

Repositioning ourselves for supernatural visitation - Taiwo Akinola

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us ~ Luke 1:78. Introduction: We are in a peculiarly messy time in the history of the world right now. Things that should not be heard of are becoming daily occurrences, with many fellow citizens of the earth increasingly losing their humanity and gaining notoriety and ascendancy. Just think of the global terrorists, the godless humanists, the unashamed political usurpers, the kidnappers, the heartless armed robbers, the dupes, the hypocrites, the fake prophets and the fake “everything”, etc. The list of our present day absurdities…

Sunday, 19 September 2021 05:55

Article of faith: Prayer of the redeemed against fear (1) - Femi Aribisala

Fear is an unpleasant feeling we get when we are concerned that something bad is going to happen to us. This feeling can be caused by something real or something just imagined. Fear immobilises us. It prevents us from going forward. It makes us hesitate and procrastinate. It militates against our trust in, and dependence, on God. Fear also adversely affects us psychologically. According to scripture, the things we fear turn out to be self-fulfilling prophecies. Job says after the death of his children: “The thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to…

Friday, 17 September 2021 05:16

VAT: Wike, FG and authority stealing - Azu Ishiekwene

The guns of Nigeria’s three-year civil war were silenced 51 years ago, but in the battle for a truly federal state, the echoes of warfare have never been more resonant. On August 10, Rivers State, which at an average monthly federal receipt of N12b, is the third richest by dole amongst Nigeria’s poor 36 states, started a war with the Federal Government over the collection of Value Added Taxes (VAT). The state governor, Nyesom Wike, a lawyer by training and leading member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), found a loophole in the tax law. He got a ruling…

Friday, 17 September 2021 05:15

Ex-lovers and their deluge of affection, cravings - Michael West

Have you wondered why some people refuse to let go of their former partners after breakup? Even as married, why do some jilted partners still feel nostalgic about their ex-lovers? Are you aware that several relationships and homes have broken up as a result of the distractions from exes? Silently, this scourge is plaguing many relationships and it is hunting marriages to instability. Because it is a strong affair, many spouses keep secret dates with their exes. They hardly do a day or two without "checking on" each other online in bids to stay in touch. They appear more tolerant…

Thursday, 16 September 2021 05:35

There are no Muslim names, no Christian names - Tola Adeniyi

Journalism, like Islam, has its own five pillars: Information, Education, Entertainment, Instruction and Commentary. Today, I’ll fulfill one of the cardinal pillars in journalism by giving information and education. And I will do it by way of a sermon. Yeshua, the great Prophet of God gave His own sermon that shook the world of His time to its very foundation. And here is a glimpse of that most memorable sermon. It is called the Sermon on the Mount. This is the greatest sermon Yeshua preached. The Lord’s Prayer, the Beatitudes and the golden rule are in this sermon. Yeshua delivered…

Thursday, 16 September 2021 05:34

Tremor as Wike, Akeredolu spit fire... - Bola Bolawole

Two governors from the southern part of the country talked tough last week – and that was good for our democracy and for the madness fast enveloping every part of the country, spreading rapidly westward and southward like wild fire in the harmattan from its “home” in the Northeast. Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State gave the North a piece of his mind on the raging controversy over who collects Value Added Tax (VAT) – the Federal, State or even Local Government - while Ondo State’s Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu responded sternly to irascible, self-opinionated, and terror-propagating Miyetti Allah in its…

Monday, 13 September 2021 05:44

A wrong turn for World Bank concessional lending - Jayati Ghosh & Farwa Sial

The International Development Association is the part of the World Bank that is meant to help the world’s poorest countries. Its explicit mission is “to reduce poverty by providing zero to low-interest loans and grants for programs that boost economic growth, reduce inequalities, and improve people’s living conditions.” The IDA provides around a quarter of its financing in grants, and the rest in concessional loans that can be repaid over 30-40 years, including a grace period of up to ten years. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, the IDA committed nearly $30.5 billion to low-income countries. Next month,…

Sunday, 12 September 2021 05:56

Tale of VAT, the lazy grasshopper and the ant - Festus Adedayo

There is this ancient fable of the ant and grasshopper that best explains the Nigerian fiscal federalism duel. Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, amplified it recently. Ants, you know, are one of the most hardworking, organized and purposeful animals on earth. Extremely hardworking and industrious, myths that have existed for ages about these insects talk about their tireless industry and empathy for one another. Ants are also seen as the closest neighbor of man. In them is a unique prowess and organizational power that have survived centuries. The pervasive presence of the ant makes the world to believe that it…

Sunday, 12 September 2021 05:55

How to enjoy the glorious liberty of the sons of God - Taiwo Akinola

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God ~ Romans 8:21. Introduction: Total liberty should be an inalienable right of every man. He may look now altogether unknown and unsought, uneducated and underexposed. He may even appear poor as poverty itself. But, no matter what, he has a birthright to be free, and he ought not to be content until he finds it and enjoys it fully. It is quite obvious that the world today is not what it once was, when its Maker pronounced it…

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Sunday, 12 September 2021 05:53

Article of faith: Christians are called to judge (2) - Femi Aribisala

Before I met Christ, I was contemptuous of Christians. I regarded them as a bunch of hypocrites. I particularly despised the pretentiousness on display during church services, where the adulterous, the unholy, and the profane put on cloaks of holiness and righteousness. For me, Sunday church services were no better than congregations of play actors and actresses. But after I met Christ, the Lord gave me a dream. In it, a committee had been set up to investigate the affairs of the library of my former research institute and to come up with recommendations for its reform. I was privileged…

Saturday, 11 September 2021 05:48

Guinea needs a bitter pill. But will Africa find it? - Azu Ishiekwene

Zambia’s peaceful and orderly election in August offered a glimmer of hope that Africa’s story might be changing. For the third time in three decades, an opposition leader defeated the sitting president sending a message to the world that the continent may not be the incumbent’s lair after all. Opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, didn’t just win; the incumbent, Edgar Lungu, accepted defeat and congratulated the winner. But hopes that Zambia’s election could be a turning point have since dissipated, as soldiers in the West African country of Guinea overthrew the civilian government while the continent was still savouring its Zambia…

Saturday, 11 September 2021 05:46

Baby mamas: Annie stings Tuface, in-laws - Michael West

Let me start by stating that there's nothing new or scandalous about the storm troubling the marriage of gentleman and African Queen crooner, Innocent Idibia aka Tuface and his wife, Annie. Let those who want to feast on the noise realise that disagreement in matrimony is normal. Several homes are undergoing crisis on daily basis for different reasons. While many are able to survive and move on together, some unlucky ones end up in separation or divorce. Either way, none is suicidal or irredeemable. But for the face-off between Tuface and Annie to turn violent as reported on Wednesday is…

Friday, 10 September 2021 05:40

Feminism or misandry? Time to separate the two - Agba Jalingo

The point needs to made to a greater number of misguided young women on social media who refer to themselves as "feminists" that, feminism did not start today. They also need to understand with their myopic world view and parochial sense of history that feminism is not a war against the menfolk or against African norms and traditions as many of them now erroneously believe. For the records and for the benefit of these largely ignorant bibliophobic pseudo-feminists, throughout most of Western history, even when women had started holding important positions in public life in Africa, European and American women…

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