Christianity, Faith: Desire, Discomfort, Doubt, Giving Up and Indecision

Exploring art opens the door to endless creativity and self-expression. Through a brushstroke, painting lets people express their feelings, stories, and visions beyond language. From beginners learning about color to seasoned painters exploring new mediums, paint choice impacts the story of an artist’s work. Ready-mix paint combines accessibility with artistic possibilities. Ready-mix paint, a water-soluble, pre-mixed wonder, gives artists instant access to a rainbow of colors. Liquid composition makes it easy to apply for artists of all levels. The colors offered are as varied as the imaginations that use them, allowing a vast pallet for artistic expression. Ready-mix paint turns

By Emmanuel Udom Today, most contract security guards are earning slave wages, putting their lives in danger while ensuring the safety of other people, corporate bodies, government agencies, etc, 24/7. It is noted that all over the world, security business is deadly, risky, slippery, dangerous and sophisticated. Like in other business concerns, owners of registered and yet-to-be-registered private security companies are in for raw deals. They are driven by profits, the laws of supply and demand and the desperate hustle for big, juicy contracts, our investigations have shown. Private contract security companies hire all sorts of people, give them one

By Nneka Okumazie Revolutions are often based on change, but the success of any revolution is not just the change of power. Africa has been running on the assumption of revolution for new power for decades but no African country has gone far with replacements of people in power across levels of government. Two of the factors that make revolutions succeed are great ideas and cooperation. There might be a cap on how great an idea is or its interval to maturity, but the greater the idea the better the chances for success of the revolution, even with minimal cooperation.

By Thando Sibanda It’s all too easy to think of startup founders as young, vigorous and touched with immortality. But the sector is full of stories of founders dying before their time. Such deaths are always tragic but can be even more so when there isn’t a clear plan in place. Without that plan, conflicts can quickly arise between the family of the deceased, investors, business partners, and other interested parties. Often, the source of this conflict is the founder being subject to a “deemed offer” or “deemed sale” clause. This clause leads to an automatic forced sale of the

By Dipo Olowookere The 364-day treasury bills stop rate was raised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the primary market auction (PMA) on Wednesday by 5.25 per cent as appetite for the asset class waned. The central bank, which conducted the exercise, did not record the usual hunger for the debt instrument by investors yesterday, ostensibly because of how the bank had tinkered with the rates in the previous exercises. But the apex bank surprised subscribers at the PMA on Wednesday when it jerked the rate higher to 14.74 per cent from the 9.49 per cent it cleared

By Modupe Gbadeyanka One of the main proponents of the Yoruba Nation agitators, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been arrested by security officials. The Yoruba freedom fighter was apprehended by operatives in the neighbouring Cotonou, Benin Republic and is expected to be shipped back into Nigeria very soon. The residence of Igboho in Ibadan, Oyo State, was raided by men of Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Service (DSS) on July 1, 2021, just a few days to a rally in Lagos State. During the invasion, which occurred in the dead of the night, the

Let’s think about the reasons why most people play casino poker. The two main reasons are: (A) To make money and (B) To socialize. Now let’s consider a prototype “tested” in the gaming medium as just one of several options for a working poker table in the post-CV19 era. This is a standard table with glass (or plastic) dividers. This design is believed to reduce the chances of infection and/or spread of infection between dealers and players and among themselves. Similar designs have appeared elsewhere, and some are reportedly in use now that some casinos are starting to reopen. Despite

By Dipo Olowookere The Queen and Buckingham Palace have announced that with effect in the spring of 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will no longer use their Royal Highness (HRH) titles as they are no longer working members of the Royal Family. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Queen, who approved the decision of Prince Harry to exit the Royal Family to start a private life with his American wife and son, Archie, stated that the young family will no longer receive public funds for royal duties as “they understand that

By Adedapo Adesanya The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, has disclosed that Nigeria’s fallow refineries located in both Warri at Delta State and Kaduna State will be up and running before June 2020. He also added that the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery in Rivers State was ongoing and was nearing completion and others were expected to follow by Q1 and Q2 2020. He made these remarks at the at the 13th Oil Trading and Logistics Africa Downstream Week, adding that the refineries would not only be repaired but their capacities would also be increased

By Adedapo Adesanya The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has made an appeal to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allow its members to trade foreign exchange (FX) electronically. President of ABCON, Mr Aminu Gwadabe, who made this appeal on behalf of his member, argued that electronic forex trading by BDC operators will ease the demand pressure on the local currency and create value for the economy. “Technology is a threat whether we like it or not and we have been urging the CBN to allow us to operate within the payment space. Our request

By Femi Fani-Kayode The day before yesterday, we were told by the First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, that her husband was not as ill as most of us believed and that despite his obvious challenges he has continued to “carry out his responsibilities”. On the same day, the media went to great lengths to convince us, without providing any pictures, that the President had resumed work and that he had had a series of fruitful and productive meetings with his Minister of Justice and the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) respectively. They assured us that he

By Investors Hub European stocks were trading mixed on Wednesday as investors continued to fret over Italian politics and the country’s future in the European Union. Overall losses, if any, remained limited as Italian equities rebounded on reports that the major parties in Italy are calling for President Sergio Mattarella to dissolve parliament immediately and conduct fresh elections as early as July. On the data front, the day’s economic reports proved to be a mixed bag. The pan-European Stoxx Europe 600 index was down 0.1 percent at 383.98 in late opening deals after losing 1.4 percent in the previous session.