Perspectives
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Forging ahead: The evolving Nigeria-South Africa alliance, by Sunday Dare
As Nigeria and South Africa hold the 11th session of Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission, in Cape Town, on Tue Dec 3, 2024 it is trite to establish the contours of their relationship and to thank President Tinubu for keeping faith with Africa’s other big brother.The radar on Nigeria again shifts to South Africa witnessing three weeks of unprecedented shuttle political…
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Attack of Onanuga by Bode George: Yorubas values on respect for elders taking too far, by Kola Amzat
Following that well-researched and thoroughly composed responses contained in the Piece of Bayo Onanuga on ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on account of the latter’s ill-conceived and misguided attacks on President Tinubu, as well as policies & programs of government about two weeks ago in faraway Yale University, America while making a presentation during Chinua Achebe leadership lectures, Elder Bode George had…
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A legend for all seasons, by Simbo Olorunfemi
I was getting set to go out yesterday when I saw Chief Segun Odegbami on TV. I just had to take a break to hear him out. I wondered what it was, knowing how at different times, I have seen him pushing passionately for one cause or the other. Yesterday, he was there, in the company of the Chief of…
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Witness to CJID and genuine resilience with developmental strides, by Tunde Akanni PhD
At the height of the activities to mark the tenth anniversary of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, CJID, the truism of the reward for hard work being more work was unmistakable. It was an auspicious time to showcase the organisation’s efforts on development of Artificial Intelligence , AI tools. Thus, some four gangling, promising young men were called…
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Leadership-Ethics Template for reinventing the Akinyele era of Civil Service in Nigeria – By Prof. Tunji Olaopa
Theophilus Adeleke Akinyele, officer of the order of Niger (OON) and Bobajiro of Ibadanland, was both an exemplary personality and a model public servant. This biographical statement is significant in administrative archiving of the trajectory of the Nigerian administrative history, and this is not just because biographies and autobiographies of eminent public servants and administrators fill some crucial gaps in…
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Gambari at 80: A modest proposal, by Wale Adebanwi
As we patiently waited with others for the elevator to arrive on the ground floor of the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations in New York this September morning (only one of the elevators was working!), a few people who recognized him seemed to gasp as they realized that such an eminent global citizen and former head of the Mission…
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Tinubu and Macron: Leveraging friendship for development, by Tunde Rahman
It is received wisdom that supportive, high-quality friends in good places are important in human relationships and in advancing personal and group progress. It is also the case in strengthening relationships among nations. Since his assumption of office, President Bola Tinubu has activated the friendship he has built over time in his quest for Nigeria’s development. The President has embarked…
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Danger in continual increase in MPR, by Kola Amzat
The CBN Monetary Policy Committee has again raised the country’s interest rate by 25 basis points to 27.50% in November from 27.25 % in September 2024. It would be recalled that MPR was moved from 26.75% to 27.25% in September, an increase of 50 basis points. Indeed, the Apex Bank authority has been consistent in this trajectory of moving up…
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Why Yayi can’t be governor of Ogun State, by Deji Osibogun
The acronym Yayi in Yorubaland is a shortened form of Eni to ya’yi or Omo to ya’yi, that is a person or child of an esteemed stature. The person that bears that esteemed name as an alias is no other person than Distinguished Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola presently representing Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun State at the hallowed chambers…
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As President Bola Tinubu goes to Paris, by Simbo Olorunfemi and Ade Adefeko
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be visiting France in a few days to be hosted by French President, Emmanuel Macron on a State Visit. While President Tinubu has visited France at different times since he assumed office, most of the trips have been private. However, his first official foreign trip in June 2023, less than a month after his inauguration,…
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