Perspectives
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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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Impunity is a Nigerian virtue, By Wale Bakare
The cacophony was unbelievable in the afternoon heat. I had come down from my car in front of the LCC! Building in Alausa to make the rest of the slightly less than 2km journey home on foot. It wasn’t the first time I was doing this and I rather welcomed the opportunity for a little extra exercise. I remember the…
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Three Lessons from the ethnicization of the JAMB controversy, By Farooq Kperogi
Over the last few days, I recoiled in horror and disgust as the fairly straightforward case of JAMB exam result fraud by 19-year-old Mmesoma Ejikeme of the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, unwarrantedly intensified Nigeria’s preexisting primordial fractures, deepened a sense of persecution complex among a demographic group, and hardened phobias and hate on social media. It…
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Nmesoma, JAMB and other matters, By Osita Chidoka
Miss Nmesoma Ejikeme took her 2023 JAMB at my foundation’s Computer-Based Testing (CBT) Center at Obosi. I got some calls from worried friends about Nmesoma’s result, which had Thomas Chidoka Center as her examination center. I allayed their worries that the result issue had nothing to do with the examination center. I observed two significant red flags when I saw…
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My response to the ‘fake news’ assertion by the EU report, By Festus Keyamo
The part of the EU report that asserts that there was a single incident throughout the whole campaign where I retweeted a news item by a ‘suspicious website’ does not deserve my response because it is so presumptuous and outside their mandate and exposes a deep-seated bias about how the so-called observers went about their assignment. However, for the education…
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Should Nigeria join the BRICS? By Ilyasu Gadu
One of the major foreign policy decisions that the new administration of President Bola Tinubu is likely to face in the coming months will be whether to join the BRICS group of nations or not. BRICS is an acronym taken from the first letters of the countries that constitute the group; Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. They are…
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Mmesoma and our nakedness, Wale Bakare
As we eagerly anticipated the release of our Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WAEC) results, the anticipation was stratospheric. It had been a long journey to this point and combining academics with Military training was no mean feat. Some had handled it better than others and were proficient in both the Military training and the academic side of things. Some were…
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KWAM 1: The making of the new Olori Omo Oba of Ijebuland
Even though, I’m of Oyo stock, nonetheless, I have very deep affection for the Ijebus on account of their spirit of resourcefulness. Without any shadow of doubt, the Ijebus are very hardworking, focused and shrewd species, with tremendous and admirable entrepreneurial skills. Their entrepreneurial exploit knows no bound. It seems generational! Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola, a business legend of Ijebu…
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Sustaining the stimulus of hope, By Fredrick Nwabufo
It has been 30 days of the Bola Tinubu administration, and it has been a bustling and eventful one. President Tinubu has rightfully earned the ticket “Baba-go-fast” for the decisiveness, punctiliousness, diligence, and swiftness of his leadership. The past 30 days have been motion, movement, and acceleration. Good things happen when governance runs on the stimulus of hope. “Hitting the…
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Sonala Olumhense got it all wrong on Lagos, By Gbenga Omotoso
Sonala Olumhense’s June 25 article published in Sunday PUNCH with the headline “Lagos, centre of excess”makes interesting read but it is wide off the mark in its assessment of Lagos. It was based largely on the Economic Intelligence Unit’s yearly report on cities, which has been variously described in well-informed circles as “dubious” and “misleading”. Why the respected writer, instead…
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