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Monday, 07 June 2021 05:17

This house must not fall - Niyi Osundare

(Fateful cracks in the wall of The House Lugard Built) 1 This house must not fall Though brick after brick It creaks like a hapless shack Weighted down by History’s burden Once Sphere of Influence Of foreign conquerors who foraged Distant lands for God and Country; A fiercely treasured booty between Treacherous ocean and insatiable desert A cynical assortment of parts, random, raw, Which have never mastered The art of bonding into a steady whole Bumbling bedlam of tribes and tongues….. Eating each other’s spleen Shibboleth-shouters at hellsgate, Incapable of hearing “My tribe is triber than yours” “My tongue is…

Sunday, 06 June 2021 05:36

Baba Lekki sings Haruna Ishola - Tatalo Alamu

A few hours after the government announced the suspension of Twitter, Baba Lekki shambled in shamelessly and pole-hugging drunk as usual. He was mumbling some imprecations against the authorities. Just before then, some nutters sent a tweet that went viral: “These tweets are banning Twitter using their Twitter handle”. In reporting the proscription even the correspondent of Aljazeera could not resist a smirk of incredulity. Thereafter, Nigerians took to their Twitter handle to instruct on how to evade the ban by obtaining a VPN that allows you to “tunnel” into another domain. It was at this point that the rogue…

Sunday, 06 June 2021 05:34

Buhari: Tweeting Asaba massacre on Road to Rwanda - Festus Adedayo

Like a suicide bomber ready to sacrifice his life, I slid into the Nigerian war theatre last week. No, not Northeast Nigeria, where kaffir soldiers are busy bombing Boko Haram faithful; nor Northwest, where good bandits are in an orgy of kidnapping hundreds of school children – apologies to bandits-negotiating merchant mullah, Ahmad Gumi. I was in Igboland where the second Nigerian civil war, unbeknown to many, has begun in earnest. For me, the mental feeling of war was actually the pandemonium that my visit evoked in the hearts of people privy to my itinerary. “How dare you!” they chorused.…

Sunday, 06 June 2021 05:32

Finding peace in the wake of storms - Taiwo Akinola

And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm ~ Mark 4:39. Introduction: The word, ‘uncertainty’, is like the predominant word in our world today. Endemic fear runs rampant in many hearts, hence, we need to be constantly reminded that our God is bigger and much more powerful than any challenges we might be facing. Of a truth, these are difficult and unprecedented times. Unprecedented? Yes, from Covid-19 pandemic crisis, to EndSars imbroglio, to heightened terrorism, kidnapping and banditry, to increasing sectarian and secessionist…

Sunday, 06 June 2021 05:28

Article of faith: By His stripes we are healed (1) - Femi Aribisala

Abraham was a faithful man in all his ways. He was not only faithful to God: he was faithful to man. He was faithful to Sarah his wife. If there was anything Abraham wanted in this world, it was to have a son. However, Abraham discovered that Sarah, the woman he married, was barren. Abraham could have insisted that Sarah must get pregnant before they are married, so he can be sure she can conceive. But he did not. He might have waited for a few years and then married wife number two just to get a child. But he…

Saturday, 05 June 2021 05:44

Constitution wetin? A game of deceit and distraction - Tola Adeniyi

It is curious that millions of otherwise educated people can be easily fooled and dragged into the on-going theatricalities and inanities of a so-called jamboree deceitfully tagged Constitution Amendment Panorama. What are they amending? Who is doing the Amendment? For which purpose and to what end? And for whom? I would have said it is laughable, but who in the Nigerian contraption is laughing now? Who is laughing? Is it the hundreds of thousands who had been driven away from their ancestral homes in the last 5 years and are now crowded and famished in the so-called Internally Displaced Peoples…

Saturday, 05 June 2021 05:42

What is the endgame in Nigeria’s Southeast? - Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria has been struggling with insecurity for over a decade. Against reasonable expectations six years ago when President Muhammadu Buhari was voted in, things have worsened. Compared with a number of other hotspots around the world in December 2020, however, Nigeria was not even among the three riskiest places. According to global medical and security specialists, International SOS, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan were the deadliest places to be. The group also projected that these places would retain the record by the end of 2021. It seemed so. In April, for example, the United Nations reported that in the first quarter…

Friday, 04 June 2021 05:43

Polygamy: 'I hate it but it's my only option' - Michael West

While I was thinking on a follow-up to last week's edition due to responses and requests for counseling on how to fix some biting sexual problems tabled by some readers and callers, a mail that caught my attention surfaced. I have attended to similar issues on individual basis previously but the urgency of this case convinced me to consider the issue for this week. Previously, some church ministers had sought my opinion on cases affecting some members of their congregations who had been in polygamy before coming to know Christ. And in conformity with their doctrines, a kind of forced…

Tuesday, 01 June 2021 05:39

Why does everyone assume that Russia and China are friends? - Isaac Stone Fish

As tensions rise between China and the United States, many commentators are taking this rhetoric at face value and warning about a growing kinship between the United States’ top two rivals. But it’s not so simple. To begin with, Moscow has more to fear from Beijing than Washington. Like the Philippines, India and Bhutan, Russia is vulnerable to Chinese territorial encroachment. China has supplanted Russia as the most influential nation in Central Asia — Moscow’s traditional geopolitical backyard — and has uncomfortably large influence over Russia’s economy. Despite the countless irritants in the U.S.-Russia relationship, all this means that there…

Monday, 31 May 2021 05:31

Southwest APC: Squandering borrowed time... - Bola Bolawole

Just like the presidency of retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, Southwest APC leaders not only live on borrowed times, they also appear hell-bent on squandering it. And like Buhari’s administration squanders the opportunities to tame the storms and turn the tides threatening to swallow him and his government as well as dismember Nigeria, so also are the Southwest APC leaders genuflecting, grandstanding, and playing to the gallery when they should have made hay while it still shines. Nowhere and at no time was this better displayed than at their well-advertised meeting of last Sunday held in Lagos. Whereas they met behind…

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Monday, 31 May 2021 05:29

Aliko Dangote: A noxious business model - Daniel Bott

A few weeks ago, news broke that Aliko Dangote was moving 60% of his family investment to the US. Not long after, we saw him in Tanzania promising to increase his investment in the country because he wants to support the new president, whose business decisions have been investment friendly. I am happy for him. He has sense. But as a businessman, I am not sure Dangote is a model. Don't take my word for it. Let the data speak: In October 2016, Dansa, Dangote's fruit juice company packed up because it wasn't making profit. It closed shop, owing it's…

Sunday, 30 May 2021 05:43

Constitutional amendment and the drummer at Alaafin’s palace - Festus Adedayo

There was this Alaafin, monarch of the ancient Oyo Kingdom, who ruled over a century ago, known for his fiery and terrifying wickedness. He spared not both malefactors and critical elements opposed to his method of administration. For anyone who ran afoul of his whims, Alaafin got his dogari (palace guards) to behead them. He then asked the dogari to dig a very deep bottomless pit at the centre of the town whose depth and actual usage were hidden from the rest of the world. Carved out and designated, on the outward, as the shrine where Ogun the god of…

Sunday, 30 May 2021 05:41

Enjoying the power of the new covenant - Taiwo Akinola

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death .... they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance ~ Hebrews 9:15. Introduction: God’s covenant is our sure anchor and our unfailing shield against any evil in this wicked world. Notwithstanding, you must know the benefits it offers, believing and personally embracing them before you can enjoy them. Losses stall progress, serial defeat seriously endangers destiny, but winning systematically in the various battles of life is very crucial to notable accomplishments. Hence, God planned for His covenant people to be…

Sunday, 30 May 2021 05:38

Article of faith: Mega pastors and mega churches - Femi Aribisala

Pastors contradict the counsel of the Lord without batting their eyelids. They plant church parishes like supermarkets in every street corner. They build cathedrals and church monuments like World Trade Centres, each one striving to be the biggest and most splendiferous in the universe. They gather thousands, even millions, of “worshippers” in front of television cameras every so often on the mountains of Kilimanjaro. They are the new spiritual superstars; the mega-pastors of the mega-churches. While the emphasis of some mega-churches on branch-networking and exponential growth might be a wonderful policy for a fast-food chain, as a framework for a…

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