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Sunday, 18 February 2024 04:46

Tinubu’s accurate 12-year-old prediction on subsidy removal effects - Farooq A. Kperogi

On January 11, 2012, Bola Tinubu published a sober, thoughtful, deeply insightful, and penetratingly foresightful article titled “Removal of Oil Subsidy: President Jonathan Breaks Social Contract With the People” that uncannily prefigured the untoward consequences of petrol subsidy removal that Nigerians are currently grappling with. The article has trended on social media in the last couple of weeks, but I had never taken the trouble to read it until multiple people who I regard highly sent it to me in what seemed like a coordinated torrent of forwards. But after reading the 4,000-plus-word article and finding out that it predicted…

Sunday, 18 February 2024 04:45

Hunger: Northern Nigeria takes its mother to the sky - Festus Adedayo

Late Afrobeat superstar, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in his early musical ensemble days as Africa ‘70, recalibrated a folklore that told the story of food shortage and hunger. The folklore, which Fela entitled Alujanjankijanbrims with the motif of greed and its implications. The hunger folktale goes thus: Long time ago, a very severe famine hit the animal kingdom, leading to intense food crisis. As against the predictions of diviners called to seek the face of divinities for solution, hunger continued to ravage the land, so much that the kingdom’s silos were completely depleted. Lion, the king of the jungle and the monarch…

Sunday, 18 February 2024 04:44

Faith that produces (2) - Taiwo Akinola

Faith: The Instrument of Supernatural Translation! By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God ~ Hebrews 11:5. Introduction: The entire Christian life is a supernatural experience from start to finish. As His children, God is ever ready to do the most extraordinary things for us and through us! He always wishes to move us supernaturally across time through the invisible heavenly realm in order to accomplish His plans, will and purposes on earth. However, faith is…

Friday, 16 February 2024 04:32

Cost of living crisis: A personal story - Azu Ishiekwene

I was going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts that absolutely cracked me up. Among the browning, time-worn papers was the receipt from a private primary school for the payment of my first daughter’s fees. It was a middle-class school that charged N5,000 naira per term. Attached to the fading receipt was a thank you note by the bursar. I rocked with laughter. This was in 1995 when, after nearly seven years of working, my monthly salary was around 60k or so. I will not forget how my mother…

Friday, 16 February 2024 04:31

For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished - Allister Heath

Britain’s decline over the past 25 years has been staggeringly rapid. Almost everything is getting worse, and almost nothing is getting better. Our public and private institutions are broken, presided over by an incompetent, selfish and narcissistic ruling class. Living standards, when adjusted properly for living and property costs, are declining. Even the simplest things don’t work any longer. Queuing, scarcity and congestion are rife, our infrastructure is embarrassingly poor, and the honest and hardworking face endless bureaucratic battles to obtain what they are due. Free riding, crime, disorder, fraud, littering and generalised rule-bending are rife, and all too often…

Thursday, 15 February 2024 04:45

Gbajabiamila is the social menace that must be regulated - Abimbola Adelakun

At a recent public event where he represented his principal, Chief of Staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, used the opportunity to retrieve the hackneyed topic of social media regulations. While he noted the bid failed while he was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, he did not indicate that any new development had since emerged since Nigerians spiritedly resisted the Bill, which had given him a better perspective. So why bring up the topic again? He must have lacked useful things to say. In sensationally describing social media as a “social menace,” Gbajabiamila gave himself away as the…

Monday, 12 February 2024 04:45

Tinubu: Nigerians are starving - Toyin Falola

I am not privy to what Femi Gbajabiamiala, your savvy chief of Staff, is telling you. There is hunger in the land. Messages have been sent to Aso Rock through the back door. So bad are things now that a new non-political front is emerging in which twelve of us have decided to seek a private conversation with you. When, I don’t know. The outcome, I don’t know. Enough of fake promises. Enough of “we are laying the foundation of a better tomorrow.” If people die today, there is no tomorrow for them. The terrible idea in Nigeria is to…

Sunday, 11 February 2024 04:51

Women who wanted to beat up our president - Festus Adedayo

This is what Kurumi's Ijaye looked like after it was attacked and defeated by Ibadan forces in 1860/61: “Old people, men and women and young children were being carried to the river Ose to die,” wrote John Iliffe in his Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Yorubaland. He continued: “Whilst many others were left to perish in the streets. There being no food for them, that many, in order to obtain the means for subsistence, put themselves and children in pawn and others even sold their relatives to procure food to eat.” A Baptist missionary was reported to have taken responsibility for feeding…

Sunday, 11 February 2024 04:50

Faith that produces (1) - Taiwo Akinola

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you ~ Matthew 17:20. Introduction: The subject of faith is a quintessential subject in our Christian persuasion (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17). Nothing works without it: salvation, healing, prosperity, and victory cannot be accessed without it. Even eternal life cannot be enjoyed without exercising ourselves in it (Mark 16:16-18). Faith is crucial to living, and…

Sunday, 11 February 2024 04:49

Article of faith: The God Christians dislike - Femi Aribisala

The Bible is a book of prophecies. God says in the Scriptures: “Don’t forget the many times I clearly told you what was going to happen in the future. For I am God – I only – and there is no other like Me who can tell you what is going to happen. All I say will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.” (Isaiah 46:9-10). Even some of the historical situations presented in the Scriptures are prophetic. Therefore, they are fulfilled again and again. For example, the persecution of Isaac by his brother, Ishmael, is re-enacted in…

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Friday, 09 February 2024 04:26

Sall taking ECOWAS from frying pan to fire - Azu Ishiekwene

As the troubled Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convenes its Ministerial Council meeting in Abuja on February 8 to discuss the quit notice served by three of its members – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – the situation in Senegal might well be the elephant in the room. Three weeks to the presidential election earlier scheduled to hold in that country on February 25, President Macky Sall announced that the election had been postponed, without immediately giving a new date or any believable reasons. After a wave of protests, he instigated the Senegalese Parliament to announce December 15…

Friday, 09 February 2024 04:25

APC is now crowdsourcing wisdom? - Abimbola Adelakun

At a recent function in Abuja, Vice President Kashim Shettima expressed his disappointment that some Nigerians would rather be amused by the free fall of Naira value than pour ashes on their heads. According to him, “It is not only disheartening and disenchanting but also heartbreaking that yesterday when the Naira culminated to N1,500 to the dollar, instead of us to coagulate into a single force and salvage our nation economy, sadly, some clowns are celebrating on Twitter of an impending implosion of the Nigerian economy.” Look, if any clown here badly needs help recognising what he truly is, it…

Tuesday, 06 February 2024 04:46

The world has caught up to Frantz Fanon - Adam Shatz

The shock of the new, in political life, often sends us back to the past in search of an intellectual compass. Amid the rise of Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Jair Bolsanaro and other authoritarian leaders, Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” published in 1951, enjoyed a surge of attention, and Arendt herself acquired a prophet-like status among liberals seeking to understand how their world had gone so wrong. The threat of illiberal nationalism hasn’t faded — on the contrary — but in an age consumed with racism, police violence and the legacy of European colonialism in the Middle East and…

Monday, 05 February 2024 04:50

The rule of law as the foundation for a successful nation - Hassan Gimba

The promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies is the focus of goal number 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also broached “access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Strong institutions are necessary to respond effectively to the needs and concerns of nationals and are better placed to hold those in authority accountable. The former President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, while addressing the Ghanaian Parliament during a courtesy visit to Ghana in 2009, remarked as follows: “No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit…

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