Sunday, 8 May 2016
Why I Support Public Grazing Reserves That Responsible Herders Can Rent
by Dr. Peregrino BrimahLong before President Buhari came into
power, many of us have thoroughly discussed and debated on the issue of
grazing reserves as previous administrations considered its institution.
I believe strongly in protected grazing reserves and contiguous wildlife and nomadic and pastural routes across Nigeria. I do not wish for my country to become a concrete jungle. It is healthier for us that we preserve these swathes of public land that can be visited by us, that we can ride our horses via from one end of Nigeria to the other and that cattle herders can rent to graze their cattle.
Forget Their Wealth Let Them Account For Our Own By Dele Sobowale
“Anyone who can’t account for his wealth must be brought to account. Everyone who has served in public office must account for what they own” — Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, in Lagos, April 23, 2016. If that statement by the VP represents the government’s position on bringing past office holders to account for their misdeeds, it is indeed a welcome development. Many of us were perturbed when the impression was first given that only the Jonathan administration would be probed. And, despite the revelations that have been made about mindless looting of the national treasury since 2010, it is still a fact that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, embarked on corrupt practices from the first withdrawal ordered by former President Obasanjo in May of 1999. Obasanjo’s administration created the template on which his successors built for corrupt self-enrichment while impoverishing the rest of us. However, the Federal Government is going about this matter the wrong way.
Asking how former public sector office holders acquired their wealth is a tedious approach to solving the problem while at the same time excluding their private sector accomplices.
Check what Actress Toyin Aimakhu Did To Fan Who Called Her ‘Ashewo’
Meet Gospel Singer Chioma Okereke younger sister of Actress Stephanie Okereke-Linus
A Secular Humanist Critique of Religion (3) By Douglas Anele
For most ecclesiastical leaders and theologians, the so-called revealed truths contained in religious scriptures allegedly written under the inspiration of God are unassailable. Indeed, in their reckoning, such “divinely revealed truths” are superior to verifiable information about the objective world generated through scientific investigation. The fundamental problem with religion with respect to truth is that the believer is cocksure that he is right because he has read the truth from a certain holy book and knows, in advance, that nothing will make him change his mind. Therefore, the truth of the holy book is an axiom accepted a priori, not the end product of the process of reasoning or painstaking research. For a devout believer or fundamentalist, the holy scripture is true, and if the evidence appears to contradict it, that evidence must either be ignored, jettisoned or – the option favoured by theologians – “interpreted with the guidance of the Holy Spirit” to the extent that it loses its real meaning or evidential value. In my opinion, the elevation of faith above scientific research is the homage ignorance pays to intellectual laziness and dishonesty.
Actor Kenneth Okonkwo & Wife welcome first child
Social Media As Necessary ‘Evil’ By Lekan Otufodunrin
Last Friday, The Deeper Christian Life Ministry in a public announcement drew attention to the existence of a scammer/ impostor on Facebook and other social media platforms masquerading as, and impersonating Pastor F. Kumuyi, the General Superintendent of the ministry.
The impostor reportedly plies his scam with the name ‘William Kumuyi’ and feeds unsuspecting members of the public with fake revelations and prophecies. In return, the scammer asks them to contact an orphanage on mobile phone number 09036165941.
Thinking Aloud About Ekiti Party Politics – a wake up call for APC By Femi Orebe
As I asked last week on these pages, what is the president or the party doing to assist the APC in states where it is not in government?
The above topic was what trended on ekitipanupo this past week, and with elections coming very soon in both Edo and Ondo states, I expect that an APC, riven down the middle, no matter the pretences, should be able to learn one or two things from our discussion. By the way, ekitipanupo is an Ekiti intellectual roundtable with about 2000 members, home and Diasporan. As is my wont when I use issues on panupo in my articles, contributions, except my own, will not be attributed.
Laide Bakare Says She Spent $1,000 To Paint Her Nails
Searching for lasting solution to Nigeria’s economic problems (1) By Ropo Sekoni
Only a few days ago, the Governors Forum met with President Buhari to indicate concerns of its members about the growing failure of states to meet their statutory duties: payment of salaries to workers and of pensions to those who had served the states in their productive years before retiring to tend their bodies and minds in their old age. Two things from the proposal of the association of 36 governors across partisan lines is acknowledgment of the negative impact of collapse of oil price on governors’ capacity to sustain their states. Another thing is the request for increase in allocations from the federation account to states. It was reported that the president also told the governors that the federal government also has problems meeting its own responsibilities but he promised to study the governors’ request and make appropriate recommendations to other branches of government. The acknowledgment by governors of the possibility that their states may atrophy, if no serious intervention beyond periodic bailouts is put in place, must re-ignite the theme of re-federalisation which appears to have been relegated to the backburner since the emergence of the government of change.
PDP Will Collapse With What Sheriff Is Doing — Ex-ministers
They said that unless the controversial National Chairman of the party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff retraced his steps from contesting at the convention, the coffin of the party would be nailed at the event.
Neoliberalism At Home And Abroad In The World: A Postscript By Biodun Jeyifo
As postscript to the series that began three weeks ago in this column, I wish to start this piece with observations and reflections that take neoliberalism on its own terms, in its own ideological self-understanding, especially with the role of our megabanks. Thus, strictly in terms of technocratic efficiency and the benefits that derive from the connection of our national economy to global circuits for the movement of capital funds across the whole world to make businesses and enterprises grow and prosper, the protectionist regulations and practices of the pre-neoliberalism period in Nigeria are uncontestably inferior to the facilities and services offered by the “free trade” financial services of the present period. To put this in a more positive formulation, it does not hurt a developing country like Nigeria to have megabanks that can move capital easily and expeditiously across the whole world; indeed, it makes a crucial area of our national economy keenly competitive both regionally in West Africa and also globally in the centers of the inter-state and international financial services industry.
My Fellow Ladies, Stop Competing with Your Man, Do what the Bible says – Foluke Daramola
Any lady who gets married and because of what Pastor or Pastor's wife
said, you decide to be claiming equal rights with your husband, you will
just be setting yourself up for crises, unhappy marriage, divorce.
Oba Lipede’s ‘Missing’ Corpse Sparked Trouble In Abeokuta’s Palace — Chief Alani Bankole By Daud Olatunji
The incident occurred in 2005, few days after the immediate past Alake of Egbaland, Oba Oyebade Lipede, joined his ancestors, according to the father of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, Chief Alani Bankole, at a launch of his book, titled, ‘ Alake of Egbaland:The Succession Dynamics’.
Whaoo! Handless 7yrs Old Girl Wins Handwriting Contest
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, Anaya Ellick from Chesapeake, Virginia, does not use prosthetics. To write, she stands to get the proper angle, holding a pencil between her arms.
Pastor Adeboye Declares Launch ‘Holy Attack’ Against Kidnappers, Killer-Herdsmen
Angered
by the growing violent crimes across the nation, the General Overseer
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare
Adeboye, declared ‘holy war’, when he led the congregation, at the May
Holy Ghost Service, against kidnappers and killer-herdsmen.Kill them All: Buhari Orders Military To Crush New Niger Delta Militants
Mr President gave the directive following the group’s attack on Chevron’s platform in Warri, Delta State, on Thursday and its blowing up of pipelines linking Warri and Kaduna refineries on Friday.
Tiwa Savage, Go Back To Your Husband - Pastor Felix Libarty
Kano-Bound Train Derails, Kills 2 | PremiumTimes
A passenger train that departed Lagos for Kano derailed at Jebba in the early hours of Saturday, leaving at least two dead and many passengers injured, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.
The train left Lagos at 12:00 noon on Friday with dozens of passengers and consignments, a survivor said.
The survivor who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday afternoon said the crash occurred after the train suffered brake failure at Jebba Train Station shortly after 7 a.m.
Oritsejafor’s Looming Exit Sparks CAN Succession Battle By Sam Eyoboka
40
years after the birth of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, via
the adoption of the name by a 10-man sub-committee headed by Anglican
Bishop of Lagos, Rev. Festus Oluwole Segun (1975-1985), the election of a
new leadership is becoming contentious with accusation that the
Presidency is rooting for a northern candidate to replace the outgoing
CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who is believed to have rattled
some powerful interests in the North with his hard stance on the
Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, which led to its being dubbed the
worst terrorist group in the world.
Was Boko Haram Sponsored by the Vindictive Fulani Herders?
There is one thing the world has recently learned about the nature of Nigeria's Fulani herders: they are ruthlessly vindictive.
FACT-CHECK: Buhari’s Claim Untrue: Journalists Being Detained, Harassed in Nigeria | PremiumTimes
Ahead
of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu
Buhari claimed in a speech that Nigerian journalists were no longer
being harassed or detained under his government.
This Is How Marriage Is Meant To Be
Ladies and Gentlemen: This Is How Marriage Is Meant To Be
Leicester City’s Premier League title celebrations – in pictures By Tom Jenkins
Our photographer Tom Jenkins was at the King Power Stadium to capture the action, excitement and emotion on a day of celebration as Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions
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