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Friday, 26 February 2021 05:23

Further notes to the Nigerian Left - Edwin Madunagu

The Nigerian Left has largely neglected, if not deliberately avoided a renewed ideological struggle which has become a strong factor in both the general turbulence and violence enveloping the whole country and the associated power struggle within the ruling class. The neglected or badly engaged ideological struggle may simply be described as “argument over the birth of Nigeria”, that is, argument over how Nigeria came into being and what would have happened if Britain, an imperial colonial power, had not invaded our lands, defeated or deceived our ancestors, gathered them together and imposed itself on them. The argument then proceeds…

Friday, 26 February 2021 05:22

Governors take fools’ ride to next level - Azu Ishiekwene

If there was any doubt that governors are underworked and overpaid, this week proved it. This is not the old, familiar sitting governor vs godfather nasty fight. It’s a brawl mostly among serving governors of the same party and even the same region, who have no qualms airing their dirty laundry as entertainment. What started as a sitcom starring Benue Governor Samuel Ortom and his Bauchi counterpart Bala Mohammed in a bizarre farmer-herdsmen exchange, later zig-zagged, morphed, and swept across the country in an expanded theatre of the absurd. At least four other governors have now been engulfed in the…

Friday, 26 February 2021 05:21

Coping with men and their wahala - Michael West

I was rather jolted by responses trailing last week's topic: “Solitude: A ravaging silent killer,” in view of the depth of chasms existing between couples in many homes which is “killing” some of them silently. I became aghast by the torrents of stories of frustration, rejection, ostracism and complete neglect in homes that should be dripping with honey, fun, warmth and love. Many of these families have enviable appearances outside that other families desire. Their children are cute, healthy and well taken care of. Except a few men, most of the complaints came from women. These are beauty queens, mothers…

Thursday, 25 February 2021 05:22

Gumi is why we all need tribalism - Abimbola Adelakun

If, by now, Islamic cleric, Abubakar Gumi, has not categorically denied he told the Muslim bandits he has been meeting in recent times that their enemies are Christian “outsiders,” it means he said what he said, and he is not taking it back. Gumi has been garrulous since he gave himself the job of negotiating with domestic terrorists supposedly on behalf of the country. He has even blamed Niger Delta militants for teaching Fulani herdsmen the criminality with which they are ravaging the whole country. Gumi is acting blind, and that is not because he is deformed. He wants to…

Thursday, 25 February 2021 05:21

Ondo State and the tango of Akeredolus (1) - Bola Bolawole

Dogs don't eat dogs, they say, and birds don’t eat each other’s intestines – not so in the ancient town of Owo and birthplace of Awo’s Action Group of yore! When two elephants fight, it is the ground that suffers. Again, not so in Owo, the land of my birth, where three – not just two - elephants slug it out at the moment. If the ground suffers when two elephants fight, imagine what happens when three do! The three elephants are the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu; Chief Judge of the state, Olutoyin Olanrewaju Akeredolu (nee Fagboyegun); and Jumoke Anifowose (Nee…

Monday, 22 February 2021 05:26

Junaidu Mohammed: Ode to a stormy petrel - Matthew Hassan Kukah

When I read the news of the death of Junaidu Mohammed, I tried to see whom I could call to confirm. First, I did something that seems foolish but gives me some emotional consolation at times like these. (For example, I still have the telephone numbers of some friends who have been dead for a few years on my phone. I occassionally look at them and get some emotional connection, as if clutching on to something precious). I immediately dialed Junaidu’s number four times. First time, it rang busy and my face lit up. I called again three times and…

Monday, 22 February 2021 05:24

The lion that cannot be caged - Femi Fani-Kayode

Over the last one week, millions of Nigerians have expressed concern about which direction I am going politically and much has been said. Some have gone out of their way to reach out to me and offered their counsel out of genuine love and concern. Others have not reached out to me and have written or spoken out of ignorance, hate and malice imputing the worst motivations for actions which they claim I have purportedly taken. This contribution is an attempt to provide answers to just a few of the oftentimes asinine and absurd assertions and observations that the latter…

Monday, 22 February 2021 05:23

Soname: Politics’ loss, the Church’s gain - Bola Bolawole

On Sunday, 7th February this year, all roads led to Agbowa-Sagamu, Ogun State as Akinola Olumakinde Soname was formally invested with the office of Lay President, Methodist Church Diocese of Remo, Ogun State. Soname is my “egbon” and friend. A banker, financial expert and business administrator of repute, he is also a philanthropist par excellence. I did not know the Lay President of a thing was a big issue until D-Day came. I then began to search and ask questions as well as brush up on the Methodist Church as a whole. As I left primary school in my home…

Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:10

Baba Lekki sparks a Nigerian monsoon - Tatalo Alamu

To Ogombo Onimalu where the mother of all social commotions was shaping up as Baba Lekki prepared to conduct what he called a radical posthumous surgery and public inquest on an expired nation. It was a sullen and ill-tempered gathering and there was the odd possibility that this may just provide the needed spark to put an end to the Lugardian racket. Coming a few days after another batch of students were abducted from a secondary school this time in Kagara there was unmistakable tension in the air and the odd feeling that the nation had reached the end of…

Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:08

Kadaria, Kagara and abductors of our collective intelligence - Festus Adedayo

On sighting the headline of her piece entitled Nigerian Media: Let’s Stop Ethnic Profiling!, I initially thought well-respected media mogul, Kadaria Ahmed, was set to confront a media orthodoxy. Though it was plain, unambiguous and self-explanatory, in a moment, I imagined that that piece was about to collapse ancient established theses about the Nigerian media dominance and vain hold on power. This is because I love anyone who audaciously perforates the majesty of principalities and powers, persons, objects or places. This was what carved a special place of regards in my heart for late Egba-born bard, Sakara music exponent and…

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Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:07

The beginning of Bible success and great endings - Taiwo Akinola

And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden ~ Ezekiel 36:35. Introduction: It serves the pleasure of the Almighty God to present His children to the world as living testimonies of His goodness and kindness. And, He is ever eager to see us enjoy His pact of plenty, success and breakthrough upon the earth. Life remains petty and miserable until its coasts are enlarged. But, as it is very clear from scriptures, pettiness, misery and woes are all contrary to God’s primordial passion for man (Genesis 1:26-28). Outstanding success on earth, therefore,…

Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:05

Article of faith: The sure mercies of David (1) - Femi Aribisala

Someone asked me a question: “What can I do to provoke the Holy Spirit?” I told her: “To provoke the Holy Spirit, you must be very provocative.” You could not be more provocative than Solomon, who went to Gibeon to offer burnt offerings. He offered 1, 10, 50, 100, 200, 300, 500, 700, 900. When he got to 1,000, God was provoked. He appeared to Solomon in a dream and asked: “What do you want?” “Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.…

Saturday, 20 February 2021 05:29

I am heading to court - Aba Saheed

I am very angry this morning. Very angry. I am raving mad. Mad to the marrow. The whole 5’5’’ height of mine from my feet to my head is shaking in anger. I cannot take it any longer. No. I will from now refuse to be abused, insulted and ridiculed by idiots and nincompoops who think they have the liberty to treat me any how and dress me in stinking robe. They call me all sorts of names and employ the worst words in the dictionary to describe me. They say I am clueless. I am brutal and brutish. They…

Friday, 19 February 2021 06:10

Can this grandmother save the world? - Azu Ishiekwene

As the World Trade Organisation (WTO) formally announced the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director General this week, a Swiss newspaper received her with a disgraceful headline: “This Grandmother will become the boss of the WTO,” with her photograph under the headline. The headline sparked an outrage, forcing the editors to modify their position: “This 66-year-old Nigerian will head WTO.” At least, three Swiss newspapers - Luzerner Zeitung, Aarguaer Zeitung and St. Galler Tagblatt - fetched their headlines from the gutter, making slight changes only after they were called out for racism. They removed the sting but left the poison.…

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