Perspectives
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Mohbad – We heard but did not listen, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
In 1991, the film The Five Heartbeats, directed by Robert Townsend was released. I enjoyed the film so much I cannot count the number of times I have watched it over the years. It is a story set in the 1960s USA about how five poor black teenagers found (and lost, then found again) fame and fortune as a musical…
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Requiem for the rapper, By Odi Ikpeazu
I must confess I never heard of the dearly departed young rapper before now but I was pained by news of his untimely death. In the exact same way, I would be pained at the premature departure of any youngster, be they a celebrity or a street monger. Just to put myself in their father’s place would kill me. And…
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Castro’s Cuba, George Floyd and Mohbad: revolutionising power of human agency, By Omoniyi Ibietan
In the dawn of 26 July 1953 when Fidel Castro led the first assault on Moncada Barracks to begin the revolutionary overthrow of the roguish regime of former Army Sergeant, Fulgencio Batista, there were only 138 men in Castro’s squad. After all the trials, incarceration and flight to Mexico, Fidel, his brother Raul, and others regrouped with new recruits, including…
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Opinion: Tinubu’s historic speech at UNGA, by Kola Amzat
In the past, African leaders have always seized the platform of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to inundate the world of endemic poverty, conflicts, wanton destruction, political instability, strife, wars, economic degradation, insurgence etc pervading their continent. They, in essence magnified the enormity of the aforementioned challenges with a view to attracting undue sympathy & pity, as well as making…
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Ebora Owu is at it again, By Bolaji Adebiyi
After what appears to be an interlude, former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, returned to the news wave again. A few days ago, a video of the former president, also generally referred to as Ebora Owu, went viral. He was seen dressing down some Yoruba traditional rulers over what he regarded as their imprudence. He ordered them to stand up!…
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Atiku and his great but illegitimate expectations! By Jesutega Onokpasa
In what is being touted as the latest twist to what is really nothing but his pathological fixation on appropriating Nigeria’s presidency to himself, former Vice President and People’s Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate in the last election, Atiku Abubarkar, has come up with a supposedly novel ground in his appeal of the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Court…
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MohBad’s mum: my light is dead, By Gbenga Omotoso
She isn’t that old, but she has aged. Suddenly. That is the picture you get when you see the grieving mother of music star Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba(aka MohBad). The agony of a distraught mum was vividly demonstrated today when Deputy Governor Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat shunned the revelries of a birthday and chose to visit MohBad’s Lekki home. “My light…
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Sonala needs to get his facts right, By Garba Shehu
Never before have attacks on any Nigerian Head of State been so continuous or chillingly violent than in the weekly syndicated column wired from America by Sonala Olumhense. As a student, I read his weekly column in the Guardian newspaper with relish, this was until he migrated (Japa) to America with its gleaming malls and opulent high-rises and since then, things…
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Obasanjo, Obadide and Obajoko: A tale of tradition, attrition and perdition, By Toyin Falola
This is a new danceCalled open and closeWe’re going to sing and tell youAbout open and closeI want to tell you a storyNo be story oI begI want to tell you a storyNo be story oI want to tell you a storyE no be story?At all, very very at allVery very at allDey say e no be story oThe tin…
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Inside Buhari’s cattle farm, By Femi Adesina
I spent three days in Daura, Katsina State, about a fortnight ago, visiting with our former President and my principal, Muhammadu Buhari. I got more than an inkling into how he spends his days in retirement in that modest abode and verdant community. Even out of power and office, Buhari is in so much demand. So many people just want…
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