Author name: Chief Femi Fani-Kayode

A high-ranking and respected official of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) came to see me yesterday and expressed concern about my disposition towards a Muslim/Muslim ticket. He informed me about CAN’s vehement opposition to such a ticket and said that the leadership of the organisation watched my interview on Channels Television where it appeared […]

With the emergence of a Northerner as its presidential candidate I wonder how Afenifere, PANDEM, Ohaeneze Ndigbo, the Middle Belt Forum and the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum now feel about their favoured child known as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)? The virulent and avowed opposition that these august and highly respected bodies had

This was indeed a monumental blunder, a humiliating show of shame and a self-deprecating faux pas!On the 19th of May 2022 President George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America, said the following words to a shell-shocked and amazed American audience whilst delivering what was meant to be a blistering attack

In the light of the murder of Deborah Emmanuel there has been much talk about the “crossing of red lines” by members of the Muslim community. They have said that blasphemy is a crime punishable by death and that if anyone dares to indulge in it and cross that line they will pay for it

The greatest insult that you can give a Christian is to tell him that Jesus (Yeshua) is not God. When you say that you are denying the very essence of His being and equating Him to man. This is a red line for us but it is crossed every day yet we take it in

“Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves! Britons NEVER, NEVER, NEVER shall be slaves”- James Thomson. Nothing reflects the glory, pride, strength and power of the old British Empire and the island nation that was once known as “Great Britain” and is now known as the “United Kingdom” than the beautiful words of James Thomson’s famous

The late General Sani Abacha, who was our Head of State from 1993 till 1998, did something that I will always respect him for. He ordered the execution of a small group of religious bigots and fanatics who orchestrated the beheading of a Christian trader from Benue state by the name of Gideon Akaluka, in

The barbaric slaughter of Deborah, a young, female Christian student in Sokoto by her fellow students who, within minutes, transformed themselves into a rampaging and wild mob of religious bigots and fanatics is totally unacceptable. It is also inhuman and unislamic. Worse still it has set back ethnic and religious harmony in our country and

In a statement titled ‘Our Party, APC Must Tread The Path of Equity’, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, the Governor of Ondo state, said, inter alia, the following: “It is the turn of the Southern part of the country to produce the next President. The party leadership should have no difficulty in making a pronouncement on this

Permit me to begin by saying that I am proud of being a Nigerian and I would have it no other way. Yet we must look in the mirror once in a while and share some bitter truths about who and what we are. This is not a self-deprecating piece but a journey of self-discovery