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NIGERIA - BIAFRA ON MY MIND: WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER WAR! NIGERIA - BIAFRA ON MY MIND: WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER WAR! Eni Sango t'oju eh ja, kii bawon bu oba koso - He who witnessed the anger of Sango, the mythological god of thunder in Yorubaland will not join in abusing Sango - called Oba'koso. Those who lived through the Nigerian civil war between 1967 - 1970 will not join in clamoring for another war. The current agitation for Biafra calls for a lot of caution on both sides of the divide. I was born a few years after the war was over, but I have read and heard stories, and seen movies. The reason why the war was fought. RIght now, the same drama is playing itself out. Many people are not acting with caution. The reaction of government to activities of the so called Biafrans recruits, sending soldiers without following the rule of law, having soldiers torture alleged Biafran members is disturbing, and the retaliation that is going on by th...

I am shocked that Tribune has become a political trumpet that will allow its platform to be used to support politics that toys with the future of thousands of students and livelihood of thousands of Lautech staff who have been without salary for 11 months now. I called this the height of wickedness that no one in South Western Nigeria has seen before - not even the ASUU-Abacha 9 months' strike of 1996 degenerated to this level. Awolowo, who founded Tribune will be turning in his grave that his legacy could accommodate such a poorly written and baseless article that is on weak facts. Akeem Adebiyi, the author of this piece spent most of the time attacking a nameless politician and then concluded by blaming the past and present management of Lautech for not making the University solvent and self-sustaining. I think Akeem needs to advise the governors of Oyo and Osun on the issue of self-sustaining before asking the management of a state university that supposed to provide sub...

  Wisdom from Kagame’s Experience – A Model for Other Potential African Leaders I am not sure how many Nigerians know Paul Kagame - he is the president of Rwanda who just got re-elected with 99% of the vote cast for a third term. He was a former warlord that led the rebels to defeat the genocidal government in Rwanda in 1994. He was first a vice president from 1994 - 2000, and he has ruled Rwanda as president since 2000. He is praised by the international community for leading the effort to rebuild and reconcile Rwanda after the 1994 genocide that saw more than 1 million Rwandans, mostly of Tutsi tribe (Kagame's tribe) killed by their compatriots. Under Kagame, Rwanda is ranked as one of the fastest growing economies in the world - Rwanda does not have petroleum, he has diversified Rwanda's economy from just agriculture alone toward human capital base development, without neglecting agricultural production that is responsible for 44% of Rwanda’s GDP as of 2010. His gove...

The fundamental question many Christians ask today is that: Is it mandatory to pay tithe today? Here is my position based on biblical facts from the New Testament. Where is it written that Jesus commanded tithe? Nor where is it written anywhere in the New Testament that tithing was mentioned? The proclamation in the New Testament is about the people GIVING OF FREE WILL and ACCORDING TO THE NEED OF THE CHURCH. This is one of the account you read in the New Testament: “2 Corinthians 8:3, For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own,…..” “ 1 Corinthians 16:2 , On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.” 2 Corinthians 9:7, "...for God loves a cheerful giver."   The account you will read in the book of ACTS 4 & 5 is that, in the first church, Christians agreed to give 100% of all they h...

If Aregbe told the civil servants that since Osun was drawn into a perpetual state of indebtedness, he has been committing at least 80% of the state’s SECURITY VOTE to supplement worker's salary, then this praise is justified. This is a total failure of government - Osun is the worst performing state in the whole of South Western part of Nigeria today when you consider all indices of good governance. Even the "Constituted Authority" in Oyo State is better, at least he pays full salary though he is owing to some months arrears. I submit that the reason is based on corruption in government and cluelessness of a man who mortgaged the future of generations yet on born by borrowing to stupor on projects that have not produced the dividend you would expect. When a state refused to fulfill its obligation to its, workers, owing 13 months’ salary arrears and has not plan to pay; when a state has been paying half salary for close to two years and calls it "modulated ...