God remembers in the ember months, by Funmi Komolafe
Gradually, we are coming to the end of the year, my prayer is that the LORD keeps us beyond this year and gives us the grace to end the year joyfully in Jesus name. Brethren, the reality is that we have only a few months to go in 2026. The past eight months have been […]
Mbaka steals show as deacon is ordained priest after 19 years
Imagine this! It takes you about eight or nine years to pursue an academic course. On the year of graduation, you are told to wait while your mates graduate. The waiting game continues for 19 years and you are still patient, waiting for that final exercise to accord you the full regalia of your calling. Such patience is phenomenal and may only be derived from spiritual strength. If you add the number of years in school, then you are talking about 28 years!
The many faces of impunity
A group of sparsely dressed men openly display guns and dangerous weapons as they roam the streets. They are not apprehended. They enter other people’s properties and cow the owner to near submission with their weapons and their arrogance. They arrogate to themselves the right to feed their cattle without recognising the rights of others to own farms and earn a living.
Wranglings stall Qatar Oil talks
By Sonny Atumah The talks for a possible oilfreezeagain ended in a deadlock with infighting between two rival Middle East oil producing giants and adversaries, Saudi Arabia and Iran.The 18 oil producingthat gathered to stabilize output were from OPEC and non-OPEC membersthat contribute three quarters of total world production. The April 17 disagreement in the […]
The trials of brother Bukola Saraki
Saraki, the god of Kwara politics, is on the ropes. And he now sees clearly the inhumanity of gods. When candidness or even pretensions to it is traded in the public, something is let out. We know Saraki is politically shrewd , he has been constituting governments in Kwara effortlessly. But we didn’t know he can write a book of lamentations. Footballers don’t cry when shoved, because pushing and shoving, bad as they are , are now part of the game. Saraki can moan but nothing that has happened is culturally perverse.
Marriage is not a bed of roses
We live at a time and in a country where time-honoured clichés and sayings are being partly or totally debunked. For example, “the patient dog eats the fattest bone,” but many a time in Nigeria the patient dog meets an empty plate. At a seminar in a foremost hotel in Abuja, lunch was a buffet and participants were going table by table. My table was among the last and when I saw some people from my table shunting, I was disappointed, but by the time we got there, I understood why.
