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Sunday, 10 October 2021 06:02

Article of faith: God is the troublemaker (1) - Femi Aribisala

Armed robbers broke into a man’s house. They cornered him in his bedroom. In desperation, he pleaded to be allowed to say his last prayer. His assailants were amused. They told him to go ahead but make it brief. The man went down on his knees. “Father,” he cried silently, “I need you to deliver me. Don’t let me die like this.” He had barely started the prayer when sirens were heard. The robbers panicked and made a dash for it, leaving behind everything they had gathered. He later discovered there was a fire two buildings away from his house.…

Friday, 08 October 2021 05:42

What Mark Zuckerberg’s trial says about us - Azu Ishiekwene

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is having a torrid time. One by one, his worst fears are coming true. According to Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, authors of An Ugly Truth, a scathing tell-all on Zuckerberg and his second-in-command, Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook founder has been troubled for years by three deadly fears: the prospect of hackers breaching the site, his employees being harmed, and the breakup of his empire. He’s had them coming for the past five years, at least. But in just one week, his deadly fears have not only come to him with chairs, they have…

Friday, 08 October 2021 05:40

‘My husband torments me, but I need him badly' - Michael West

A 44-year-old woman is at the verge of quitting her marriage because her husband is tired of continuously "wasting his time, energy and body fluids" without any child to show for it. Getting him to sleep with his wife who is desperately and anxiously waiting on God for the fruits of the womb is said to be an arduous task. According to the woman, "my husband is adding to my sorrow and frustration as a waiting woman. Only God knows what is actually responsible for needy situations like mine. I have tried all I could in terms of medical and…

Thursday, 07 October 2021 05:46

That peace may return to ‘Great Ife’ - Bola Bolawole

For the umpteenth time, peace at the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Ile-Ife was shattered last week as the students trooped into the streets to protest the very sad, very unfortunate, and very untimely death of one of their colleagues, 24-year-old Omowumi Aishat Adesina, a Part 4 student in the Department of Foreign Languages, allegedly as a result of the nonchalance and negligence of the institution’s Health Centre. According to a statement issued by OAU’s PRO, Biodun Olarewaju, Omowumi “reported to the Health Centre with signs and symptoms of a severe infection” on Tuesday, 28th September and…

Monday, 04 October 2021 05:50

Justice Olugbemi: The evils of ‘Federal Character’ revisited - Bola Bolawole

Recently, governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, got characteristically loquacious, uncouth, and irascible talking down on his fellow southern Nigeria counterparts, many of whom are his betters by dint of hard work, intellect, and industry and not the undue advantage bestowed by an atrocious “quota-this” and “quota-that” federal character system. El-Rufai’s grouse was the principled position taken by the southern governors at their latest meeting of Saturday, 16th September, 2021 held in Enugu where they insisted the next president in 2023 should come from the South. This is what many consider the most reasonable and logical thing to do, not…

Sunday, 03 October 2021 06:06

What weed did Buhari’s speech writers smoke? - Farooq A. Kperogi

I’ve stopped bothering to listen to or read Muhammadu Buhari’s speeches for quite a while now not only because I’ve given up on the regime he leads but also because he has some of the most inept speech writers Nigeria has ever had, particularly in the last two years. But a portion of the speech a friend shared with me instigated me to read the entire speech. The speech was, as usual, vacuous, insipid, poorly written, tediously mind-numbing, and filled with audaciously transparent lies. Nonetheless, even by the horrible standards of Buhari's speeches, his October 1, 2021 Independence Day speech…

Sunday, 03 October 2021 06:04

Buhari’s October 1 rhetoric, Mailafia and Akunyili's murder - Festus Adedayo

I find a symbolic similarity between the travails of Chike Akunyili and Richard Henry Stone, (1837–1915) the latter’s which I picked from his memoir that contained his missionary activities in Nigeria entitled, In Africa’s Forest And Jungles. Stone was an American missionary who came to Africa during the nineteenth century to represent the Southern Baptist Convention and who spent years among the Yoruba-speaking people of Western Nigeria. He lived in Ijaye, Abeokuta, and Lagos and traveled to “Ibadan, Lahlookpon, Ewo, Ogbomishaw, and Oyo” in his own words. For both Stone and Akunyili, I struggled, with scant success, to reconstruct the…

Sunday, 03 October 2021 06:03

The infinite power of the spoken Word of God - Taiwo Akinola

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions ~ Psalms 107:20. Introduction: God's Word, as contained in the Bible, is one of His most precious gifts to man. He personally inspired it; therefore, it is very authoritative and highly profitable (2 Timothy 3:16). In fact, the Word actually “became flesh” to guarantee gracious impacts in all practical realities in the lives of the believers (John 1:14). God and His Word are inseparable. God does not change, and He cannot fail. Likewise, God’s Word is infallible, neither will it return unto Him without accomplishing the purposes…

Sunday, 03 October 2021 06:01

Article of faith: Prayer of the redeemed against fear (3) - Femi Aribisala

Fear and faith do not mix. It is like oil and water. Therefore, tell the Lord: “Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.” (Psalm 56:3). “Whenever I am afraid, let me run to You. Whenever I am afraid, let me hope in You. Whenever I am afraid, let me seek Your face. Whenever I am afraid, let me seek the comfort and reassurance of Your word.” Tell God: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, let me not be afraid. Let me always be conscious of the fact that You are ever with…

Saturday, 02 October 2021 05:37

The world’s populists are ascendant - Henry Olsen

Conservatism’s decline is in evidence almost everywhere. Norway’s center-right coalition government received only 40 percent support in the final polls, down almost nine points from its showing in 2017. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has been in free fall as Germans view her proposed replacement, Armin Laschet, as the least preferred of the major party leaders. The CDU and its allied Christian Social Union in Bavaria is receiving only 21 percent in current polling, a mark that would easily be its lowest ever if repeated on election day. Traditional conservative parties in Iceland and Bulgaria are down below…

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Friday, 01 October 2021 06:05

The Akunyilis deserve justice - Dare Babarinsa

The assassination of Chike Akunyili Tuesday night diminishes our country. It is a direct assault on our humanity. He was the widower of Dora Akunyili, the amazon who blazed the trail at the National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and later served as Minister of Information under President Shehu Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. What happened was a massacre as Akunyili’s security detail, his driver and two other persons were all killed. Dora must still be awake in heaven as her son just escaped the bloodbath when he decided to ride in another car instead of following his…

Friday, 01 October 2021 06:02

Nigeria: What they said about another 60 years - Azu Ishiekwene

This is the time of year when we moan about everything wrong with Nigeria. Quite often, we do so not necessarily from a place of spite but out of frustration and hopelessness. It’s true that the life of a nation is not necessarily measured in biological age. But most might agree that if potential, that hackneyed word so often ascribed to Nigeria, was a child, it should have come of age at 61. Yet, even by the most gracious of accounts, this Nigerian child is stunted, a problem offspring not only to its parents, but also an enigma, if not…

Friday, 01 October 2021 06:01

Mixed blessings of ‘hired’ spouses, in-laws and parents - Michael West

In the years gone by, 'hired' parents and 'borrowed' in-laws were a necessity for an urgent arrangement to fulfill “all righteousness” in the process of solemnising a marriage. It used to be a family affair in which people other than the biological parents of the intending spouse(s) were engaged or asked to represent the real parents in absentia. It is a practice that is common with orphans, those in the diaspora as well as those involved in disputed relationship which their parents disapproved of but they choose to go ahead to marry. Not much issues have been reported about the…

Thursday, 30 September 2021 05:57

Still on the VAT brouhaha - Bola Bolawole

What you are about to read is an intervention on the ongoing battle over the Value Added Tax set in motion by the Rivers State governor, Nysom Wike. Scripted by two of Nigeria’s foremost Leftist ideologues, Jaye Gaskia and Toye Olorode, a retired professor of Botany, it throws light on the raging controversy while also proffering a way out of the financial crisis knocking on the country’s door. Known for their pro-poor, pro-people, and pro-masses polemics and activism, Gaskia and Olorode, in “Statements of facts about the Value Added Tax”, gave hard punches to the ruling class for running the…

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