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Sunday, 16 May 2021 05:45

Aburi ghosts, Asaba secessionists and waffles in high places - Festus Adedayo

When you listen to Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmed Lawan’s skewed submission on Southern governors’ meeting in Asaba, Delta State last week, you will realize that people in high places too are not immune from marketplace waffles. Miniature logic can proceed from the minds of huge, prarchute-like babanriga wearers after all. More importantly, from the tragic Lawan ill-logics, the much talked about January, 1967 Aburi Accord will present to you as the quintessential Julius Caesar’s ghost promising to meet its nemesis at Philippi. Finally, you will find out that Nigeria is trapped inside this pit being because it lacks critically thinking…

Sunday, 16 May 2021 05:44

God, our refuge and sure help in trouble - Taiwo Akinola

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed ~ Psalms 46:1-2a. Introduction: If glorifying God and fulfilling your destiny on earth are your highest goals in life, then divine help is your most essential need. When there is no merit, half is gone; but, when there is no help, all is gone. It is common knowledge that help is most usually cherished at the hours of dire need (Deuteronomy 33:29). However, we need God even in the infinitesimal details of our lives. Missing God is missing…

Sunday, 16 May 2021 05:42

Article of faith: Jealous God - Femi Aribisala

God is a person with a personality. He is the most important person in the universe. It is imperative to know His likes and dislikes. The only authority on God is God Himself. How does God say about Himself? “You shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” (Exodus 34:14). God is not only jealous, His name is Jealous. He says: “And now, O priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name, I will…

Saturday, 15 May 2021 05:47

Tola Adeniyi writes an open letter to Muhammadu Buhari

Dear President Buhari, It is with great pain but with deep concern as a fellow human-being and your age mate that I send you this private/public letter in the hope that you would be allowed to read it. I am in pain because the country that Allah has placed on your laps to nurture and protect has virtually slipped out of your hand and is heading to ruins and destruction. Every index that makes a country lay claim to development, survival, safety and security, unity and understanding, and justice and equity has taken a flight under your watch. You probably…

Saturday, 15 May 2021 05:45

If LASU must excel - Olanrewaju Osho

The drama Governor Babajide Sanwoolu has been performing in the selection of the 9th Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU) is intriguing, incredulous and insalubrious. The scripting of the drama probably began hours after the recommendations of the joint selection panel of the University reached his table, but the drama itself started seventeen days after Mr Governor had received the recommendations. Rather than picking any of the top three candidates recommended to him, he elected to follow the June 12 style of former military President, Ibrahim Babangida, to annull the process with the excuse that his office had received…

Friday, 14 May 2021 05:47

Why there shouldn’t be ’Plan B’ - Femi Fani-Kayode

In 1842 Thomas Babington Macauly wrote my favourite poem titled 'Horatius at the Gate' and made a point that we can all learn from in Nigeria today. He wrote: "Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods, “And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast, And for the holy maidens Who feed…

Friday, 14 May 2021 05:44

Just thinking aloud (II) - Bola Bolawole

“As we were saying, Awo’s legacies have been left to rot: The cattle ranches, farm settlements, Liberty Stadium, Cocoa House (one of the tallest buildings in Africa in those days), the first television station in Africa (beating some European countries to it), the Government Reservation Areas and the industrial estates, solid road network constructed by indigenous construction companies like Oni and Sons, etc.” “The fate that has befallen cocoa is the most appalling. We used to be one of the world’s leading producers of cocoa! Awo financed his laudable free education and other programmes with cocoa money but, today, the…

Friday, 14 May 2021 05:43

Coup talk and echoes of a Banana Republic - Azu Ishiekwene

These days, it seems all right to play with fire. The blaze started like a solitary spark in Mali in August when the streets, the elite and jihadists banded to remove President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The former president had discarded election results and written a version that tightened his grip on power. How he thought he could reinvent the Mansa Musa legend in a country riven by violence and poverty only he can tell. Outside the capital, Bamako, however, it was clear that Keita’s ambition was dead on arrival, awaiting funeral. And, of course, he didn’t last to tell the…

Friday, 14 May 2021 05:41

Asaba declaration and an unyielding president - 'Femi Olufunmilade

I was elated three days ago (Monday, 11 May 2021) when 17 southern governors were hosted in Asaba, Delta State's capital, by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, whereupon some important decisions were taken. The decision extracts read as follows: ban on open grazing, establishment of state police, convocation of a national dialogue, restructuring, observance of federal character in national appointments and recruitments - with emphasis on security agencies. Of the five items above, only the ban on open grazing is clearly within the purview of the state governors to implement. In this regard, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has set the…

Friday, 14 May 2021 05:40

Why do men stop 'chasing' in relationship? - Michael West

"I keep wondering what is the matter with men. When they want an affair with you they will bombard you with calls, messages on WhatsApp and Messenger. They monitor you closely, approach you tenderly, lovingly and promising. But the moment you say 'okay, let's see how it goes' and the relationship is on course, the chasing will stop. The calls will sparingly come. You will then be the one chasing them around, trying to know their whereabouts and be sure they are okay. I'm not saying they will stop seeing you or not giving you attention but the chasing and…

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Thursday, 13 May 2021 05:27

Remi Tinubu’s heart of stone - Tunde Odesola

The name, Eve, is not a derivative of the word, evil, though both sound alliteratively similar. It’s a name native to Hebrew, adopted by Latin as Eva, and accommodated by English as Eve. In Hebrew, Eve means living. But religious male chauvinists are wont to disagree with this meaning and insist that Eve means the opposite of living. Death. Religious male chauvinists would readily associate Eve with the evil that the Serpent concocted in the beginning of time, at the Garden of Eden, where the bite of an apple contaminated innocence and opened the gate for death to sneak into…

Wednesday, 12 May 2021 05:39

The logic of US-China competition - Joseph S. Nye, Jr

In his recent address to the US Congress, President Joe Biden warned that China is deadly serious about trying to become the world’s most significant power. But Biden also declared that autocrats will not win the future; America will. If mishandled, the US-China great-power competition could be dangerous. But if the United States plays it right, the rivalry with China could be healthy. The success of Biden’s China policy depends partly on China, but also on how the US changes. Maintaining America’s technological lead will be crucial, and will require investing in human capital as well as in research and…

Tuesday, 11 May 2021 05:31

The promise and peril of Central Bank digital currencies - Anne O. Krueger

Bitcoin and other privately issued cryptocurrencies have generated a frenzy of excitement, with most of the analysis focused on their appeal and apparent drawbacks. But relatively less attention has been paid to an even more important development: the increasing likelihood that countries will shift partly or entirely to a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Economists have long recognized that money performs three functions. As a medium of exchange, it enables transactions that otherwise would require difficult bartering (as in trading chickens for a car). As a unit of account, it allows one to know whether one has saved or dissaved…

Monday, 10 May 2021 05:50

As Nigeria unravels, who leads the Yoruba? - Bola Bolawole

Nigeria appears to have turned the corner and her fate no longer rests with those protecting their oil wells or those nostalgic about their Civil War scars or even those hallucinating about 2023. Truth be told, these same people – those bent on protecting their advantage as well as those sentimental about the so-called non-negotiability of Nigeria’s ‘unity’ - are the very people that have brought this country to its present sorry pass. As the bitter truth stares everyone in the face, the time to face reality has come. Whichever choice that is made eventually will depend on the kind…

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