On Iran and the Middle East, the Trump administration is following Israel’s playbook. By Marwan Bishara Supporters of Donald Trump think of the US president as an exceptional one-of-a-kind force of nature – a sui generis leader. His detractors like to compare him to Russian President Vladimir Putin or describe him as a Putin stooge, and since he ordered the “vengeful” or “reckless” […]
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After watching BBC’s Sex for Grades exposé and following media audiences’ comments on sexual harassment in Nigerian higher institutions, I have finally developed the courage to write about what happened to me in the Faculty of Arts office of a University of Lagos Professor in 2001. I was in 200 level studying Mass Communication and […]
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Considering his age, one would think former Minister for Aviation, Mr Femi Fani Kayode, should know more and have grown beyond this jejune divisive politics. But he won’t continue to leave the public in bewilderment with his manner of peddling falsehood, creating confusion and brewing political anarchy. If anything, Femi proves the theory that old […]
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It doesn’t take rocket science for anyone to discover that the Nigeria’s war on terrorism (Boko Haram) is just another conduit pipe to siphon public fund. It is a pure conspiracy against the people and the nation. People who are shrewd and savvy in international politics and diplomacy understand the issue better than what I […]
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Have you observed that the very people accusing others of hizbiyyah are the ones engaging in hizbiyyah? Have you also observed that the same people labelling others as khawarij are the very ones with the traits of khawarij. They condemn people from associating freely in a form of body or organization whereas all human beings […]
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I once asked an Austrian friend of mine who had just qualified as a doctor where he went when he was sick. The surprising answer was that he and most of his colleagues went to a homeopath. He reminded me of our family G. P. who didn’t believe in medicines. I was told ‘just take […]
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When the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump announced the death of the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or DAESH as it’s acronym is properly and derisively put in Arabic during a military strike on 26th October at his compound at the Northwestern region in Syria […]
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It was early October in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan (known as SRK) stood before hundreds of guests and began with the most basic of Islamic injunctions: the remembrance of God. “In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful,” SRK narrated in Arabic much to the delight of those in […]
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By the end of April 2011, Barack Obama’s approval rating had fallen to the lowest level of his presidency: 43 percent, according to Gallup, with 48 percent disapproving. Unemployment was at 9 percent. Gas prices were soaring. Seventy percent of Americans were saying the country was on the wrong track. A battle over debt and deficits […]
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Today, the 12th of October, 2019, all roads lead to Iwo, the Senatorial District Headquarters of Osun West in Osun State of Nigeria and birth place of Alhaji Liad Tella. This day, the retired Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Mass Communication, University of Ilorin, and former Federal Commissioner at the National Hajj Commission […]
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