Author: TheLagosianMagazine

BETWEEN T.B. JOSHUA AND KRIS OKOTIE by Femi Fani-Kayode. “Africans do not celebrate great men. They rather take delight in celebrating mediocre men. Africans happily destroy great men and if possible look for their mistakes to nail them. So sad that they destroyed Prophet T.B. Joshua on a daily basis. Finally he has left them and what he was doing, they can’t do! Evil continent!”- Prophet (Dr.) Emmanuel Badu Kobi, Glorious Wave Church International, Accra, Ghana. Prophet Emmanuel Kobi has spoken the truth and he has spoken for millions. I commend his courage. Sadly Pastor Kris Okotie of Household of…

JUNE 12 IS HERE AGAIN! We have committed June 12, 1993 to memory, never forgetting and never trivializing it! June 12, 1993 has engaged us in dynamic patterns across generations. When, hopefully, the next election cycle comes in 2023, it would be 30 years of June 12!We again salute the martyrs, heroes and heroines of that moment: Chief MKO Abiola, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, and many more who paid with their lives! Those who stayed to fight, those who ran to fight another day: We salute you all! But our current situation shows we have a lot to do still as…

You will recall I had addressed a press conference in Ado Ekiti on 1st June 2021 where I had decried the growing insecurity in the country and the unfortunate development around our school and campuses resulting in the kidnapping of our students and sometimes even death. In the last week, I have met with the Inspector General of Police, other security agencies, held series of meetings with student leaders across the country. While everyone agreed that the context of the planned protest is genuine and we reserve the right to protest, the palpable tension surrounding the date has come under…

WHY TB JOSHUA SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST MINISTRIES BY REV MBANI. It is sad we lost such a great man of God. I have never sat down one-day to watch Emmanuel TV but I have listened to so many testimonies not based on just prophecies, healings, deliverances and teaching only but on practical manifestation of the fruits of the Holy spirit in the senior prophet TB JOSHUA.In his lifetime, the ebullient prophet was hated and called so many unprintable names; attributing his powers to the marine world. Several Pastors accused him of being fake and a sorcerer.…

BET International announced the ‘BET AWARDS 2021 Viewer’s Choice: Best New International Act’ nominees today, with Nigeria’s Tems and South Africa’s Elaine clinching two spots on the nominees list. These African vocal powerhouses join an array of talented black women who are dominating the music industry on the BET Awards 2021 nominees list.  The BET AWARDS 2021 will air Live, Monday, June 28 on BET Africa, DStv channel 122, at 1am WAT/2am CAT. You can also catch the repeat at 7pm WAT/8pm CAT on the same day. “The ‘Viewer’s Choice: Best New International Act’ category was created to award breakthrough talent and emerging voices in music from around the world,” said Monde…

There was a near anarchy at the Police Headquarters in Lagos on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 when the Inspector General of Police paid his first official visit to the police command in Lagos. Prior to the IGP’s visit to the Headquarters, he had paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Governor of Lagos, Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu as well as the paramount ruler of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos. It was about 2:20 p.m as the IGP was about delivering his speech in the presence of senior officers of the Nigerian Police Force and pressmen when there was…

The ultramodern complex of the Railway station in Lagos is truly a sight to behold. Having survived decades of pageantry and utter abandonment by various government, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) remains one of the footholds of the colonial heritage projects. For the need to rescue the railway system from outright collapse and to save the calamitous traffic problems in major cities around the country, the new railway system project was undertaken by the Federal Ministry of Transportation with technical support from Chinese leading construction company in the country. The Lagos section of the railway project located at Ebute Metta…

Popular juju musician, Wale Thompson has been talking about an auto-accident which nearly claimed his life. The accident, which occurred on March 18, 2011 took the lives of two fellow travelers in the same vehicle with him. Witty Wale as he is popularly called made this revelation while featuring on Lagelu 96.7fm radio Ibadan’s programme, Ayekooto On Radio anchored by Olayinka Agboola on Tuesday evening. In Wale’s words, “On that day, we had a show in Ibadan and we were heading back to Lagos when we got involved in the mishap. You see, we were four in the vehicle and…

Professor Wole Soyinka We heard it last during the heydays of Donald Rumsfeld under George Bush – and judge in what condition it has left that part of the world, and beyond. Rumsfeld’s namesake- a sobering coincidence- also spat the same gung-ho rhetoric. That Donald once ordered his uniformed forces to “go out there” and “dominate the environment,” following civilian protests at extra-judicial killings of blacks by state police. Soon enough, leaving nothing to chance, that Donald II seized on the first opportunity to personally mobilise a mob to “dominate” Capitol Hill, his own seat of government that was clearly…

If the information reaching us is anything to go by, no offender will be spared the rod of the Federal Government, if after the ban on the use of Twitter, they defile such orders and still operating on the micro-blogging site. It would be recalled that the management of the popular social media site had taken down a presidential tweet that was considered to be instigating violence. In an exclusive interview with BBC Africa Focus on Monday, the Nigerian Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated: “The attorney-general has made it clear that if anyone violates the regulation,…