Perspectives
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Making Nigeria a global industrial and economic giant, By Akinwunmi Adesina
PROTOCOLS Good morning, everyone! I wish to congratulate BusinessDay on this year’s CEO Forum. Thank you for inviting me to deliver the keynote lecture at this event. I am a great admirer of the impeccable credibility, professionalism, and business savviness of BusinessDay. If you really mean business in Nigeria, start your day with BusinessDay! My hearty congratulations to the Publisher,…
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New Nigeria: One presidency, By Kola Amzat
There is no gainsaid the fact that, the barely two months old Tinubu administration inherited very troubled economy, frightening unemployment, galloping inflation, nationwide insecurity, and most strikingly, a country that has retreated into regional lines and religious blocs. Of course, the above disturbing package is enough to extinct and destabilize a country, as well as making its leadership completely lose…
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On 8K palliative, By Kayode Oyedeji
Four years ago, we were home at Ilesa for Christmas. The practice is that arrangement would be made for a caterer that will handle cooking all through our one week stay. The caterer, a lady, stayed with us for seven days and seven nights, practically pounding yam every day. When it was time for her to leave she gave us…
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Tunde Rahman: Rugged PRO gets his due, By Tunde Olusunle
Non-initiates marvel at the peculiarity of the rapprochement which subsists between media practitioners, even when they differ in opinions and even political disposition. My very good friend and brother Segun Ayobolu served as Media Adviser to Bola Tinubu now President, when the latter was governor of Lagos State. Within the period, I was engaged in the Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar government,…
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The bicycle boy who built an empire, By Dare Babarinsa
A sea of humanity bid Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun, founder of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), farewell last week in Ijebu-Ode. It was grand, the kind of occasion that befitted his sense of grandeur and his love of drama. The high priests of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) were there in large numbers for Balogun was an influential and…
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My thoughts on blueprint for tomorrow, By Babatunde Fashola
In offering my thoughts about a blueprint for tomorrow in Nigeria, I choose to deal with what I call first principles.I will deal locally and globally with what had happened, and is happening. What we all know and need to look at again, and from here hope to project what tomorrow offers. No part of the earth is new except…
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Nigeria’s foreign policy direction and the utility of example, By Fredrick Nwabufo
Events in the past weeks betoken a pristine approach to Nigeria’s foreign policy utility. There are indications that the nation’s foreign policy plank will follow a clear and unconfused trajectory. And it is apparent that Nigeria will play a purposive role in the affairs of West Africa and Africa under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. A firm, decisive and progressive leadership…
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Why south-east should abandon call for Nnamdi Kanu’s release, By Fredrick Nwabufo
We must tread with circumspection. We must follow reason. Why are we inclined to misadventures? Why are we not having conversations on how the south-east can work with the federal government to improve the infrastructural standing of the zone, and how we can take advantage of the decentralisation of electricity; revive industries and inland ports? Why are we lost in…
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Joblessness, idleness and feigned piety, By Owei Lakemfa
The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu-Gambari, as a former Justice of the Court of Appeal, ought to know that Nigeria is a secular country. As a graduate of the Nigeria Law School, he should know that Section 10 of our country’s Constitution states in simple English that: The government of the federation or of a state shall not…
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There was a country, By Osita Chidoka
As I visited my Muslim friends and enjoyed sumptuous ram-themed dishes commemorating the sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) in total obedience to God’s directive to sacrifice his son, I wondered why the two Abrahamic religions in Nigeria have not elicited obedience to rules as a matter of course. As I pondered, I remembered a story I heard recently that reminded…
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