Perspectives

Atiku, bienvenue Chicago, By Gbenga Omotoso

Even as those who flew thousands of kilometres across the Atlantic, drove several kilometres and walked a million steps in search of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s status at the Chicago State University are back – empty handed – and the chief mourners and their bitter sympathisers have refused to go home, it is fit and proper to intervene in what…

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What now, Atiku, By Jesutega Onokpasa

I just saw a typically idiotic tweet by former Vice President, Atiku Abubarkar, in which he continues his wholesale disgrace of his own self, apparently under the delusion that he’s embarrassing his President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his supposed country, Nigeria. Perhaps, because he’s not a very bright man, Alhaji Abubarkar might not realise that the sort of thing he…

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Peter Obi ruined Atiku’s chance to be President, By Reno Omokri

It has been said that a person’s worst enemy is the individual who feeds their weaknesses and vulnerabilities. The 2023 election is over. Peter Obi defeated us, not Bola Tinubu. By contesting in an election he knew he could not win, Peter Obi stole away votes that would naturally have come to the Peoples Democratic Party (the Southeast has always…

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Tinubu’s certificate: Setting the records straight, By Tunde Rahman

Former Vice President and roundly defeated presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was a pitiful sight to behold on Thursday at the Shehu Yar ‘Adua Centre, Abuja as he sat like a wreck after addressing what he called a world press conference. He had gone on a wild goose chase to the United States in search of President Bola Tinubu’s certificate.The…

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The trip to America over Chicago, By Bolaji Adebiyi

Twice this writer interviewed Ephraim Akpata, the first chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, over the propriety of the electoral agency and security agencies screening candidates for an election. The old man, a retired justice of the Supreme Court, argued that such an act would amount not only to preselection but also place limitations on the choice of the…

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Tinubu and the inventions of propaganda, By Fredrick Nwabufo

Bias, desperation, delusion, and deception govern the outputting of the distortionist mob. Mob distortions are purposive fabrications. They are oddly designed inventions pulled from a smorgasbord of fake news, injurious falsehood, slander, and prejudice. They come in the cloak of truth and certainty. They come in the swaddle of history and records. But in actuality, they are just a carefully…

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The leadership question in Nigeria: Is Tinubu rewriting the national narrative? By Prof. Tunji Olaopa

When Chinua Achebe penned the prophetic political tract, The Trouble with Nigeria, in 1983, Nigeria’s second republic was brutally at an end when a coup cut short the civil rule that commenced in 1979. In that short book, Achebe laid his keen insight on what has ailed the nascent Nigerian state—just barely twenty-three years old: the problem of leadership. What…

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FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s 63rd Independence anniversary speech to Nigerians

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 63RD INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY OF NIGERIA ON SUNDAY, 1ST OCTOBER, 2023 Dear Compatriots, It is my unique honour to address you on this day, the 63rd anniversary of our nation’s independence, both as the President of our dear country and, simply,…

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78th UNGA: President Tinubu and his defining moment, By Tunde Rahman

The just-ended 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly was President Bola Tinubu’s first outing at that important gathering of global leaders and on that first appearance, he left behind a lasting impression. Addressing the gathering around 8pm local time in New York which was 1am in Nigeria, on Tuesday September 19, President Tinubu was in an excellent form.…

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Colour me blue: A birthday tribute to my principal, Oyetola, By Ismail Omipidan

When I first authored a piece with the above title about two or three years ago, little did I know that one day, my Principal will preside over a ministry that has something to do with Colour Blue. Colour Blue is a primary colour, which according to Wikipedia often symbolises “serenity, stability, inspiration, or wisdom.” Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola CON, the…

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