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Thursday, 06 March 2025 04:31

Akpabio finally stops hiding behind women - Abimbola Adelakun

On Wednesday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio finally defended himself since Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan accused him of sexual harassment. This is not the first time he has been accused of such, but this instance feels different. He denied the accusation by alluding to his record of awards as a “gender-friendly” governor and pointing out his cherished personal relationships with women that put him beyond such impropriety. Good for him, but there is also enough record of his public conduct to consider a pattern of his behaviour when dealing with women. For instance, in 2020, when former Managing Director of…

Tuesday, 04 March 2025 04:56

Rubio and the polished face of Trump's government - Wale Are Olaitan

I have always liked the polished demeanour of Senator Marco Rubio. Not for him the belligerence of some others who see themselves as avatars of the Republican crusade against the woke people in the progressive Democratic camp who must be shouted down with all the vigour that could be mustered. And I do not think or believe that this mild and milder disposition detracts in any significant sense from his convictions about the Republican and conservative principles and values which he shares and tries to embody publicly. Rather he comes through as a more thoughtful person, not only desirous of…

Monday, 03 March 2025 04:40

This Sentinel at the door of Anambra State must succeed - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, South-East Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed about 3,000 killings in this theatre from open source records but unofficial estimates suggest that there may be up to five killings missed for each counted. The worst of the killings have occurred since 2019 and the worst hit state in the zone over that period is Anambra. Many erroneously date the origins of this to the radicalisation of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)…

Sunday, 02 March 2025 04:48

The Trump-Zelensky-Vance spat, unspeakable! - Femi Mimiko

It is unheard of, for heads of state to turn on each other PUBLICLY in this manner! Such disagreements are tolerable behind the curtains, certainly not in the full glare of the cameras. And whatever his limitations - and they are many - Zelensky remains a sitting President. It is absolutely out of place in the world of diplomacy, for a VP - even of a super power - to address him so rudely, in the manner Vance did, again, PUBLICLY! These people do not have class, no panache. The optics, very bad for both Ukraine and the US. Putin…

Sunday, 02 March 2025 04:46

The primacy and the supremacy of wisdom - Taiwo Akinola

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding ~ Proverbs 4:7. Preamble: We live today in an era of wisdom! Knowledge is rapidly expanding at an unprecedented rate; information is now abundant and readily accessible in all areas of human endeavor, especially with the breathtaking advancements in artificial intelligence. However, whereas we’re making astronomical progress in expanding the bodies of knowledge, true wisdom is being relegated to the background and remains indiscernible, unrecognized and unacknowledged by many people in many quarters of the world. Too often, our decisions are driven by ignorance, queer…

Sunday, 02 March 2025 04:45

Article of Faith: The God who is not good all the time (1) - Femi Aribisala

Nobody spoils a man’s life like Jesus. Jesus is a killer of all worldly joy. God’s attitude to the world is often lost on many. God hates the world’s system. The world hated Jesus and killed him. Therefore, anyone who is a lover of pleasure; anyone who likes this world, becomes an enemy of God. Accordingly, James asks: “You adulterers! Don’t you realise that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.” (James 4:4). Paul agrees: “She…

Friday, 28 February 2025 04:40

Babangida’s long journey to sorry - Azu Ishiekwene

You cannot quarrel about how a man tells his story. It is his business. However, the pseudo-autobiography of the former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, is more than the retired general telling a story of his own life. A Journey in Service is a long, tortuous journey to penitence, which arrives at its destination, if it does at all, leaving its memory behind. After 32 years of deflecting, dissembling, dodging and denial, the former military president finally gets as close as possible to remorse, then stops short of saying sorry for his betrayal of his country by blaming several dead and…

Friday, 28 February 2025 04:39

IBB’s presidential library should be painted red - Abimbola Adelakun

I started reading ex-Head of State Ibrahim Babangida’s recent memoirs, aiming to look for the moment in the narration that gives an inkling into his becoming a tyrant. Ultimately, it was the little details that gave him away as still narcissistic. One example was the image of his secondary school, Government College Bida. So dilapidated was the entrance arch into the school that the photograph of it printed in the book could not capture the faded name. They had to superimpose the name of the school on the image with printed letters. A whole IBB could not endow funds for…

Wednesday, 26 February 2025 04:36

Sharia law: Arewa’s export to Yorubaland - Majeed Dahiru

At a time that well-meaning Nigerians, including some Muslims, are calling for the secularisation of the Nigerian state and the dismantling of religious laws in the Hausa speaking Muslim North of Nigeria, as a means of effectively separating the state and religion, some wannabe Mullahs in the Yoruba speaking South-West part of the country are struggling to extend Sharia rule to their region. For many decades, the Muslim North has been the hotbed of Islamism, Islamist separatism and political Islam in Nigeria; a situation that has reduced the region to a Siberia of religious intolerance, violent extremism and Jihadi terrorism.…

Tuesday, 25 February 2025 05:04

Overreach of liberalism, so-called progressive politics and its aftermath - Wale Are Olaitan

I have always been intrinsically and instinctively opposed to oppression, seeing and perceiving that the world could attend to the welfare demands of many, if not most, of the inhabitants of the world without much sweat. My idea of a life worth living is to always identify with the underdogs and keep a tab on their sufferings and how those could be ameliorated. This naturally puts me in the progressive camp of politics in terms of the organization of society, even if I do not play partisan politics, with the idea that society could be better organized to attend to…

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Monday, 24 February 2025 04:09

Re: In defence of judicial authority: Two clarifications - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

I am grateful to Seyi Sowemimo (SAN) and Abdul Jinadu respectively for taking time to address matters of historical record from my column last week. This column publishes their rejoinders (modestly edited for economy) this week, without comment. – Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Why my father refused to swear in Buhari after 1983 coup, By Seyi Sowemimo I have in recent times come across two posts or write-ups by Chidi Odinkalu containing some misinformation, which requires correction, so that they do not become accepted for all times as the true versions of the events to which they relate. The first has…

Sunday, 23 February 2025 04:51

Reconciling accounts: An ex-excellency prepares to meet his maker - Sonala Olumhense

Any student of history who has encountered the legendary South African figure known as Shaka Zulu knows that you either hate him or love him. In a life filled with brutality and deception, Shaka killed his half-brother to become king. In the fullness of time, he was similarly killed by his half-brothers, bringing an end to the bloodiest era in his people’s history. As both king and warrior, Shaka was so ruthless that he killed more of his own people than his enemies did. A man who seemed to love the smell of blood, he slaughtered men, women, and children,…

Sunday, 23 February 2025 04:49

The diverse manifestations of the Spirit of glory - Taiwo Akinola

And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal ~ 1Corinthians 12:6-7. Preamble: Our modern day world needs strong interventions and unmistakable helps from heaven now more than ever! Troubling end-time signs and prophecies as foretold by Jesus Christ are being fulfilled daily (Luke 21:16-28). Even the socio-political environment is very concerning, globally. Many people that are born as kingdom stars now live as commoners on the earth, and may eventually die in obscurity. Nevertheless, fulfilling our destiny…

Sunday, 23 February 2025 04:48

Article of Faith: Do not love the world - Femi Aribisala

God says: “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9). Jesus goes even further to reveal that the ways of God are not only different from but often diametrically opposite to those of man. (Luke 16:15). This means that if man thinks something is black, God is likely to consider it to be white. If man thinks that something is good, God is likely to consider it to be bad. Or if man thinks something is beautiful, God is likely to consider it to…

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