Day: August 31, 2023

Friday Sermon :The Importance Of Feeding The Poor And The Needy In Times Of Hardship By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, Bestower of Mercy All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is His servant and Messenger. Dear brothers and sisters, donating food or feeding the poor is a virtue that is promoted by Islam and this good gesture is mentioned in the Surah Al-Insan of the noble Qur’an. The verse (Qur’an, 76:8) mentions that: “They feed food to the needy, to the…

Political Economy of State Governors Palliative Distribution Theory By Adefolarin A. Olamilekan

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The weight of governance under the current leadership of the Nigerian state demand critical theory interrogation on the national attitude of the elites, just as it calls for it in the times past. Sadly, many Nigerian economist and political economist are shying away from ‘heterodox thought’, concentrating instead on purely technical matters to support the status quo in a narrow technical sense. That in the last one decade sanctions the decadence of systematic and systemic abuse by the elites, with anti poor economic policy such as the dilemma’s called fuel…

Gabon coup: Just the same old stories by Olusegun Adeniy

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When I woke up yesterday to news of a military coup in Gabon, I concluded there must be a better way to earn a living than peddling opinions on the pages of newspapers. We were still coming to terms with developments in Niger Republic where military adventurers are digging in when we learned of the overthrow of President Ali Bongo Ondimba. While circumstances of the two countries might be different, we are dealing with the same institutional challenge. This prompts me to ask, what else is there to write about…