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1447AH/2026 Eid Al-Adha’s Sermon (Khutbah)! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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Dhul-Hijjah 10, 1447AH (Wednesday, May 27, 2026).   In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy   Praise be to Allah, the Most High, the Most Great, the Exalted, the Supreme, for whom honour is a garment and majesty is a robe. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and messenger. May Allah exalt and send peace to him, his family, and his companions abundantly, ameen Ya Hayyu Ya Qayyum. To proceed:…

Boko Haram comes south By Lasisi Olagunju

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The military high command has come out to say that the gunmen who abducted schoolchildren and murdered their teachers in Ogbomoso were JAS men. JAS (Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad) is a splinter of Boko Haram. One of the kidnapped teachers was beheaded on camera by the terrorists who flung the video into cyberspace to our collective horror. So, finally, in Yorubaland, they have come. I can count two, three, four people around me who watched that video and fell ill. Yet those who did it felt normal and may…

Tinubu Secures APC Presidential Ticket with Over 10.9 Million Votes

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President Bola Tinubu has emerged winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential direct primary election, defeating his sole challenger, businessman Stanley Osifo, by a landslide margin ahead of the 2027 general election. The nationwide exercise, conducted across the party’s 8,809 wards, saw APC members vote directly to choose the party’s presidential candidate. The results were announced on Sunday at the Bola Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja by the APC Presidential Primary Election Returning Officer and former Senate President, Pius Anyim. According to the final tally, President Bola Ahmed…

Professor Joseph Otubu Turns 80: Celebrating a Medical Luminary

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By Bissallah Ekele, Ibrahim Yakasai, Patrick Daru and Emmanuel Udoeyop       Professor Joseph Ariogboma Mogbaeyicheremi Otubu is an Obstetrician, Gynaecologist, teacher, trainer, academic, researcher, administrator and above all a clergyman. Born on 2nd June, 1946. He is the second child of Late Elder Dr. Godfrey Itse Mene Otubu, the Former Baba Aladura and Prelate of Esocs Church. He is from Oghara in Ethiope West LGA, Delta State. He attended Primary School at Salvation Army School in Enugu. After completing his secondary school at Western Boys High School, Benin…

Building Godly Homes for National Transformation: Rev. Azeez Charges Christians on Moral Leadership and Nation-Building

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By Afolabi Olajuwon       As part of activities marking the Family Month celebration themed “Godly Homes, Godly Nation,” the Foursquare Gospel Church witnessed a spiritually enriching and intellectually stimulating service focused on the urgent need for moral restoration, family stability, and responsible Christian citizenship as pathways to national transformation.   The service commenced with an uplifting praise and worship session led by the Okunrinboye family, whose spirit-filled ministration created an atmosphere of thanksgiving, unity, and reverence. Their harmonious presentation stirred the congregation into heartfelt devotion and reflection, setting…

How I Returned from the Gate of the Other World (4), by Hassan Gimba

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The Arbiter The nurses at Al Shifa Hospital in Makkah are well-trained, diligent and passionate about their work. They are very active as well. When I started to come around — returning to this world through the gate of the other world — I imagined the hospital as an army unit and the nurses as soldiers. Mostly Egyptians, they were active, agile young men aged between 23 and 35. Among my favourites is Walid Abdel Elah Ahmed, an Egyptian. A strong, good and cheerful young man with a wife and…

Boko Haram’s slaughter of Mathematics in Oyo By Festus Adedayo

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Nigeria has become the proverbial forest of the heartless, the Igbó Òdájú. It is where mothers must take extreme care to double-strap their sucklings to their backs. Even when they do, these Òdájú, the heartless, violently yank suckling infants off their mothers’ back. Politicians are indistinguishable from bandits. Like vultures, both of them have talons soaked in blood. It is difficult to say we have a government. Or a country. Thomas Hobbes must be smiling in his grave now. His famous 1651-propounded theoretical state of the life of nature, wicked…

The Hidden Power Of Giving! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May the peace, blessings and salutations of Allah be upon our noble Messenger, Muhammad, and upon his family, his Companions and his true followers. Dear brothers and sisters! Know that generosity is an act of pure worship and a reflection of a Muslim believer’s Iman (faith). Giving selflessly cleanses the soul, purifies wealth, and brings one closer to the ultimate Provider, Allah, Al-Karim, The Bountiful One. It is not…

Bauchi APC Primary: Group Rejects ‘Fictitious’ Governorship Election Results

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The Bauchi Progressives Forum has rejected the outcome of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Bauchi State, describing the results announced by the party’s Primaries Committee as fictitious and misleading. In a statement signed by its Chairman, Mallam Ibrahim Abdullahi, the group insisted that no governorship primary election was conducted anywhere in the state, alleged instead that aspirants were pressured into stepping down for former Governor Mohammed Abubakar. According to the Forum, the figures announced by the Chairman of the APC Governorship Primaries Committee did not reflect…

Insecurity in Oyo State and the Danger of Branding Criminality as “Islamic Jihadist” By Mallam Ibrahim Agunbiade

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This morning, while listening to Splash FM 105.5 FM during the “State Affairs” programme anchored by Edmund Obilo, I became deeply concerned by the dangerous direction of the discussion surrounding insecurity in Oyo State and parts of the South-West region.   During the programme, references were repeatedly made to kidnappers and criminal gangs operating in parts of Oyo State as “Islamic jihadists,” with claims that they have now invaded the South-West in a bid to conquer the region and establish dominance. Such sweeping and emotionally charged narratives may attract public…