By Abdu Rafiu The gruesome death of George Floyd in the hands of the police has predictably reawakened a deep feeling of unending persecution and has served as a reminder of centuries-old atrocities the blackman has had to experience in the hands of the whiteman. First, there was a slave trade when blacks were herded […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The brutal killing of George Floyd in the hands of a white policeman in Minneapolis 25 May has taken the centre stage in the last two weeks displacing the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic to the second place in the consciousness of the human race. Horrified humanity in the free world spoke in unison: Enough […]
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By Abdu Rafiu For the faint-hearted, having to receive a report of a rise in the cases of the coronavirus pandemic is enough to dampen the spirit and for one to throw up his arms in resignation. For Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the young man in the saddle in Lagos State, there is no discouragement. The governor has […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Concern about the influx of Chinese into Africa, and into Nigeria, in particular, is mounting. It is getting louder by the day. The worry is shifting from the large-scale engagement in extractive industries— mining of gold in Zamfara State, and exploratory mining in Osun State, again in gold, for example—to acquisition of […]
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By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…The appointment of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari has put paid to all manner of speculations on who becomes the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari in succession to Malam Abba Kyari snatched away by the vicious Mr. COVID-19, alias Coronavirus of no known or fixed address. Baba Gana Kingibe […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina drinks a sample of the “Covid Organics” or CVO remedy at a launch ceremony in Antananarivo on April 20, 2020. “Covid Organics” or CVO is a remedy produced by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research (IMRA) created from the Artemisia plant and is claimed to help prevent coronavirus Covid-19 […]
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By Abdu Rafiu A crowded bank after the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos There is nothing like freedom. Last Monday proved to everyone how irrepressible the longing for freedom is. The longing was breathless, the desire to walk the street was pressing—to breathe in fresh air from outside, away from the stuffy room into which you […]
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By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…Could we say that the Almighty Creator created us human beings without a purpose? Can purposelessness arise from Perfection which everyone who believes in God attributes to Him? Can we say the pursuit of material endowment and raising of families is the whole purport of our existence on earth? […]
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By Victor Emmanuel Uwah Oftentimes, one sits in shameful contemplation of what the present time will be remembered for by posterity. Shameful because, with the Fulfilment of the Second Coming of Christ last century, one would have expected the promised Thousand-Year Reign of Peace to set in in its full splendour. The general goodwill, love, […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Many people, troubled seeing the ravages the monster called COVID-19 has been unleashing in various countries of the world, are throwing up their hands in resignation, understandably asking: “What’s all this about? Is there never going to be an end to all the waves of afflictions which assail humanity unceasingly? Is there […]
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