How Gowon took Nigeria into OIC
By Femi Abbas This article is not appearing in this column, today, for the first time. It had been published before as a presentation of naked facts against the incessant falsehood with which Nigerians...
View ArticleOIC Controversy: NCEF’s Rejoinder
FEMI ABBAS Monologue Readers, like customers, are Kings and Queens. They are not only entitled to a right of response to any publication they might have read in the print or social media, they...
View ArticleWhere are the Muslims?
By Femi Abbas It may not be strange to say that the similitude of Islam and Muslims is like that of a snail and its shell. They share a common destiny and remain as inseparable as the sun and its...
View ArticleWhen tomorrow comes 2
FEMI ABBAS “Let there become of you a nation that shall call for righteousness, enjoin justice and forbid evil. Such are men that shall surely triumph”....
View ArticleTMC holds annual week
Tajudeen Adebanjo THE Muslim Congress (TMC) Lagos State chapter has commenced the Annual State Week, with a theme: Balancing between Atheism & Science in a World ravaged by pandemic diseases. The...
View ArticleThe Message in retrospect!
FEMI ABBAS TODAY’S article was originally scheduled for publication in this column, last Friday, September 25, 2020. That would have marked the 14th year of the commencement of ‘The Message’ column...
View ArticleEncounter with Richard Akinjide on Islam
FEMI ABBAS Monologue It should not be strange to readers of ‘The Message’ that this column is coming up, today, with such a memorable title as presented here. A newspaper columnist, who is also a...
View ArticleReformation of Madrasah in Nigeria
FEMI ABBAS Monologue Today’s article is a follow up to that of last Friday as demanded by many dignified readers of this column around the world. Yours sincerely could not resist such a demand...
View ArticleHistory’s greatest man
Femi Abbas Monologue THIS is one of the periods in which newspaper or newsmagazine columnists find themselves in a dilemma. Such dilemma is not on whether to write or not. Rather, it is on the...
View ArticleLesson from History
FEMI ABBAS Monologue Time is an abstract phenomenon that cruises uninterruptedly along the line of destiny. Time is the natural abode in which history resides permanently. The history of the past...
View ArticleTrump: The exit of a tyrant
By Femi Abbas “Say oh Allah! You are the Lord of all dominions; You give dominion to whoever You wish and withdraw dominion from whoever You wish; Your power over everything is unquestionable….” Q. 3:...
View ArticleThe Insect that heals
FEMI ABBAS Preamble IT is an undisputable axiom that two phenomenal substances in human life are unsurpassable. One is knowledge. The other is time. None of these two has a substitute. Since the...
View ArticleMUSWEN’s New President
FEMI ABBAS Preamble Last Sunday, (November 22, 2020) was a unique day of glory and unprecedented equanimity, for the Muslim Ummah of South west Nigeria (MUSWEN. That was the day that a new...
View Article1979 in Contemporary History
FEMI ABBAS No sensible human being ever restricts his itinerary to a particular habitat; to keep moving by migrating from place to place is the secret of human progress….”. Arab Poet Monologue...
View ArticleSir Ahmadu Bello’s Christmas Message
FEMI ABBAS This is the month of December, a month of paradoxical tradefair in which lies, fabrications and falsehood are, invarably, the wares displayed for exhibition. This is the month in which...
View ArticleThe foresight of a Leader
Femi Abbas Preamble An article entitled ‘A Voice from Harvard’ published in this column, on Friday, October 21, 2011. That article is being repeated here today because of its vivid relevance to...
View ArticleTerrorism: The Madrasah Connection
FEMI ABBAS Monologue The ongoing raging calamities in form of terrorism, banditry, armed robbery and serial rape in Nigeria, today, are cultivating a variety of focuses, ironically, from the agents...
View ArticleAmerica’s riddance of evil
By FEMI ABBAS Say oh Allah! The Sovereign Lord of all dominions; You grant dominion to whoever You will and take away dominion from whoever You will; You exalt whoever You will and abase whoever You...
View ArticleThe price of peace
Femi Abass Monologue Peace is a unique virtue in the life of man. Its value cannot be measured on the scale of gold or that of silver. Any life without peace is a life without worth. Peace, in any...
View ArticleIslam and Nigerian media 2
By FEMI ABBAS Monologue From all observable agles, the Nigerian media, as championed by the South West axis professional journalism, is the main arena to which the Muslims are regularly drawn into a...
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