On the Lord’s Day

Three years ago, when Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede was appointed vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife) aka Great Ife, I announced that “another white man” had taken over at that great citadel of…

...and his bishoprick (office or charge) let another take – Acts 1: 20. The jury is in: A preponderant number of Nigerians want the Service chiefs dismissed from office. When we say “Service chiefs,” we mean the Chief of Army Staff,…

Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. – John Donne. RETIRED Geneneral Muhammadu Buhari was at it again recently…

IF Britain could exit the European Union, as it did close to the midnight of 31st January, 2020; if Eritrea could exit Ethiopia; if Southern Sudan could exit Sudan, then, there is nothing that says nations cannot exit nations. To say a…

MANY readers of this column issued me “queries” over what they described as my “criminal silence” on the Supreme Court’s abracadabra of a judgment in the Ihedioha/Uzodinma tussle over the Imo governorship, which the apex court awarded to…

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown – A line from the play, King Henry the Fourth (Part Two), by William Shakespeare. ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ex- two-term Lagos governor and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives…

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo in Les Miserables. LES Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862. Set in the early 19th Century France, it is…

IF I were to choose my “Man of the Year 2019” from abroad, it would unmistakably have been US President Donald Trump. His many advertised shenanigans notwithstanding, Trump’s advocacy for the rights of Christians in an age where Christians,…

LET’S start by thanking Gen. Muhammadu Buhari who chose to address a letter to Nigerians on New Year’s day. I will refrain from calling Buhari “our” president because in the five years that he has been in the saddle, he has not behaved like…

YULETIDE affords both faithful and critics alike the opportunity not only to exchange the season’s greetings but also to ask probing, even if troublesome, questions about Jesus Christ and Christianity as a whole. For instance, was Christ…