Perspectives

Kick-starting the Tinubu administration’s food security agenda, By Temitope Ajayi

During the electioneering, President Bola Tinubu promised Nigerians to increase agricultural production to ensure sufficient food in the country and guarantee food security. On top of the priority agenda to achieve food sufficiency and affordability is the plan to cultivate 500,000 hectares of farmland across the country to produce maize, rice, wheat and other crops. To demonstrate the seriousness attached…

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Towards building a new Edo, By Kassim Afegbua

I returned from Benin City yesterday with a huge feeling of nostalgia, reminiscencing on the fond memories of events that dominated my engagements in 2016, after a fulfilling service as Commissioner for Information in the state. I looked back with nostalgia, reflecting on the time when Senator Adams Oshiomhole was in the saddle in the state. Recalled his fierce quest…

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Securing Nigeria pluck by pluck, By Fredrick Nwabufo

Excellence needs no hype, makeover, or agitprop. Good work manifests itself in palpable reality. The security bent of the Tinubu administration is an exercise of deliberate, coordinated, meticulous and prescient deployment of strategies and actions to secure Nigeria. It is securing Nigeria pluck by pluck — with inexorable courage, purpose, and urgency. A large part of success in security operations…

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Cabinet retreat: A President in a hurry to deliver, By Dada Olusegun

Cabinet retreats are not unusual for new administrations trying to set the tone for governance. However the just concluded 3-day Cabinet Retreat organised for ministers, presidential aides and other government functionaries is in a league of its own. From the opening speech of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the first day, I could feel the deliberate intent of a visionary…

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A farewell to Professor Ben Obi Nwabueze, a true titan of the law and a beacon of wisdom, By Olukayode Ajulo

Today, I feel a profound sadness as I receive the news of the passing of a mentor and an extraordinary man, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN. His departure leaves another void in my world, and I cannot help but gather my thoughts to pay tribute to his remarkable life, his immense contributions, and the profound impact he had on the legal…

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Is Tinubu really Yorubanising the Nigerian government, By Farooq Kperogi

Have the President’s appointments been fair? Have they been equitable? Some say he has not been fair, equitable and just; especially those who say that he has unduly favoured his Yoruba ethnic group. To buttress their point, they have listed some important and critical appointments which they say have gone the way of Tinubu’s Yoruba ethnic group. Let us take…

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Wonders of Hausa-speaking northern Christian names, By Farooq Kperogi

Hausa-speaking Christians in Nigeria’s far north are the most invisible demographic in Nigeria. Their numerical and symbolic modesty in the predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria renders them marginal in their natal region, and their co-religionists in the Christian South don’t even believe they exist. But they have a fascinating cultural repertoire that is (unintentionally) hidden to the rest of Nigeria, which…

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Duty and citizenship: The social contract, By Babatunde Fashola

I am delighted to be here today as lecturer in honour of a truly outstanding Nigerian, jurist and patriot, the late Justice Chukwunweike Idigbe, who sadly left us on 31st July 1983, about 43 years ago. What then was it about this Nigerian whose legacy is imperishable? Indeed, it was many things, from a family that continues to celebrate him,…

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No regrets on setting term limits for leadership of banks, By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

I think we must remember that everything boils down to context. And we should not naively believe the claims of some people that they are the “owners” of banks- especially the listed ones. In almost all the banks that we took over, we discovered that these so- called owner managers set up SPVs, lent money to these SPVs, turned round…

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Reexamining Uzodinma V Ihedioha, By Jesutega Onokpasa

One Francis Ojo, a man I had never heard of in my entire life, recently penned a very poorly researched article in which he deployed the valedictory address The Honourable Justice Musa Dattijo gave upon his retirement for the purpose of impugning the Nigerian Judiciary. Amongst other utterly ridiculous submissions, Ojo referenced the Supreme Court decision that confirmed Senator Hope…

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