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Giving tithes to church or needy: what Bible really says?

There is a movement today which believes the tithe which they are to pay to God should be given to the widows, fatherless, orphans or the needy in general. This movement wants to give the tithe to the needy directly from their pocket without giving it to the Church. They even have a Bible passage…

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Why they have been sponsoring crisis and fake news to disrupt Oyo NUJ activities|By Adewumi Faniran, Oyo NUJ chairman

I thank God Almighty for giving me the grace to always triumph over my adversaries, I am Adewunmi Faniran. For the zeal to serve the union, Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, I have contested for the post of the State Chairman and lost twice to Comrade Gbenga Opadotun, the immediate past Chairman of the Council….

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SPAC Nation, a church with a difference|By Kolawole Ayinde

THE picture that comes to mind when one hears of a Church in this part of the world is that of an organization whose order of service follows a laid-out procedure. Some can predict the next item on the programme schedule by just taking part in the service. It can be argued that the desire…

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Where is Nigeria’s Data Protection Law?|By Adeboye Adegoke

Data protection is an important topic in the digital age. The subject is a representation of efforts aimed at creating a balance between individual privacy rights and legitimate use of data for business, security, education as well as provision of basic and essential services. According to the available statistics from the United Nations Conference on…

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Literary Opinion: Our president is blind|By Ahmed Hadiza

Nigeria has absolutely turned to a red sea where noone survive because of raggle definitions and incredible diversity punched onto us. In a clear way, we’d understand how our president didn’t pushed the wonderful trigger to a well direction because of death zombies who kept hunting him not to do the right thing. For over…

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ASUU vs FUOYE: Our Story|By Geoffrey Bakji, School PRO

Recently, a piece entitled: “Again, ASUU alleges corruption, mismanagement, tyranny in FUOYE’, was published in a national daily of August 22, 2019. It is unfortunate that the write up in question, attacked, without caution, the person of Prof. Kayode Soremekun, Vice-Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti and his office. Thousands of informed and rational readers, expectant…

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ATIKU’S UNRELENTING APPEAL TO EMOTION: A GAMBIT DOOMED TO FAIL|By Femi Adesina

First, it was laughable, now it gets progressively pitiable, to see and hear efforts by presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, appeal to the emotions of Nigerians, particularly members of the judiciary, perchance it would influence decision in the ongoing legal tussle over the result…

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Makinde, Open Society And Its Enemies | Festus Adedayo

About two weeks ago, the governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde, shocked a Nigeria not used to the open society that democratic governance advocates. While the norm among holders of office in Nigeria is to dictate alleged details of their pre-office worth to their media handlers for the world to feast upon, Makinde went…

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Olopoeniyan’s attack on Ajimobi’s aides: The locust years are here|By Adeoye Akande

It is quite disheartening that in 2019, there is no one in this Oyo state government capable of replying the intellectual work of Professor Adeniyi Olowofela, Erudite media guru Bolaji Tunji and ever sagacious Abiodun Ambali, all former aides of the immediate past governor of Oyo state, Sen. ABIOLA AJIMOBI. The trio had embarked on…

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Just In: Obasanjo writes PMB open letter over insecurity in the country (Read the letter)

Dear President and General Buhari, OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT, GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in…

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