Day: October 6, 2024

Garlands for Mimiko and Farounbi By Festus Adedayo

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Within a week, two great Nigerians celebrated their birth anniversaries of 70 and 80 years respectively. They are, Olusegun Rahman Mimiko and Akinyemi Farounbi. While the former, a medical doctor-turned politician, was governor of Ondo State, the latter, a broadcast journalist of over six decades, was Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Philippines. In my estimation, what links both men is a mental acuity, brilliance and patriotism that are difficult to define. I begin with Farounbi. Till today, what drives Farounbi is a puzzle that may take a very long time to…

Wike’s Nigeria feeds citizens’ bodies to pigs By Festus Adedayo

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Nigerians and indeed, the world, watched aghast last week as a South African grisly movie reel began to roll. Full of all the elements of a movie, it was however a real story. The cast was two black women who, on August 17, were shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer. The victims, Maria Makgato, 45 and Lucia Ndlovu, 34 were scavenging for edible food in consignments of recently expired or soon-to-be-expired produce on a farm located near Polokwane, a South African northern Limpopo province. The expired edible…

Evangelism and Devotion: Keys to Growing God’s Kingdom, says Rev Idowu

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By Dr. Afolabi Olajuwon     On the first Sunday of October 2024, the Foursquare Gospel Church, Wuse District Headquarters, Abuja, hosted a service filled with spiritual fervour and rich teachings. The gathering was marked by a vibrant atmosphere, initiated through a powerful 30-minute choir ministration that set the tone for worship and reflection. Rev. Babatunde Idowu, the Senior Pastor and District Overseer of Wuse, led the congregation with a compelling sermon titled “Kingdom Expansion Through Witnessing.” Drawing from Acts 4:31-34, Pastor Idowu emphasized the necessity of witnessing and prayer…

The Arbiter: Re-readers’ comments (1)

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From time to time, we try to give way to our readers to make their voices heard through their input. Well, it has been quite a while since we did that. We will start serialising such inputs. Nigeria and Presidential Democracy: Any Better Alternative? I enjoyed reading this. I wish it didn’t end. Sannu da kokari, Sir. I hope and pray that everyone who reads this, including our lawmakers and other segments that make up the government, brood over this. We are a people whose identity is being lost every…

LG Polls: There was no election in Rivers State, results were written and announced – DG CCLCA, Dr Nwambu

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An observer group, Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness has said no local government election took place in Rivers State as the results were already written and RSIEC simply announced winners. This disclosure was made by the Director General of CCLCA, Dr Gabriel Nwambu while appearing on AIT live program. Nwambu said: “Actually there was no election in Rivers State, what happened was that the results had already been written and an announcement of winners. He described the whole exercise as a mockery of democracy as the landmark verdict…