Perspectives
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Fuel subsidy: Enough of cosmetic palliatives, By Yemi Adebowale
In the last 25 days, a very good friend of mine, Francis Adelakun (chartered accountant) has been struggling with his expenditure in relation to his income, no thanks to the huge rise in the price of petrol. Driving from his house in beloved Ikorodu, Lagos State to office in Ikoyi, requires just 20 litres of petrol. Well, it used to…
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Sex, pastors and pastors’ wives, By Funke Egbemode
Today I’m worried about men of God, wet matchboxes and the fire at the base of the mountains of pastors’ wives. I’m worried about pastors who leave their wives’ needs unattended in the name of doing God’s work. A pastor’s wife was caught pants down with her butt-naked brother-in-law defiling the clergy man’s marriage bed. The video trended for a…
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𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 h𝐞𝐫 s𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐡 s𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞, By Samuel Fasanmi
One of my Pastors will always call me ‘Sanmi instead of Fasanmi. Fasanmi simply means Ifa oracle is profitable to me, and my pastor felt that in calling me Fasanmi, he was indulging in idolatry! Such is the level to which Pentecostalism has tied us to delirious treadmill of profanity in Nigeria. The same pastor feels comfortable with names like…
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Generations of the Nigerian and African Left – History and Historicity, By Biodun Jeyifo
Out of relative obscurity, every generation must discover its mission and either fulfill or betray it” – Frantz Fanon, “This generation will not pass away before all these things take place”. – Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 24/34 What we are doing today is a momentous event in the history of the Nigerian Left. Although it is the launching, not of…
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The Asari blunder, By Wale Bakare
As a young man, I grew up admiring the handsome ruggedness of revolutionaries like Che Guevara and Fidel Castro of Cuba. In America, they had the ascetic Malcolm X who wanted equal rights for the Blacks ‘by all means necessary’! On the African Continent, there were people like Samora Machel, Patrice Lumumba, and the iconic Nelson Mandela. Closer to home…
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Bridging the digital divide to help overcome Africa’s learning crisis, By Emeka Oparah and Mohamed Fall
Today (16th June) we commemorate thousands of young activists in Soweto, South Africa, who marched to protest the quality of their education in 1976. Hundreds of them were shot dead for demanding their right to learn. Does today’s generation of children have a reason to feel similar anger at the state of their education? Certainly, young people have been taking…
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Tinubu’s heroic; Nigerians didn’t believe me, by Kola Amzat
Some six (6) and half years ago, precisely in the very early part of ex-President Buhari’s first term in office, I started churning out a series of publications and write-ups in the Nigerian tabloid and social media platforms, essentially to provide justifications why Asiwaju Tinubu should succeed the immediate past president. Even though, against all odds of insults being hurled…
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Ribadu, security chiefs and their customers, By Dare Babarinsa
After barely four weeks in power, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown Nigerians that he means business. On Monday, Tinubu retired the old military chiefs and the Inspector General of Police. He finally sent home the durable Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali, who was the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (CGC), for the past eight years and brought in Bashir…
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The imperatives of fuel subsidy removal, By Babajide Fadoju
During his inauguration speech, the president of the federal republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced that the subsidy regime has come to an end. It got the whole nation fired up – queues returned to filling stations across the country, public affairs analysts and economists went on tirades about whether it was the right or wrong thing to…
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Bites and Kisses: The day Bayo Onanuga summoned me, By Adeola Agoro
I was young.I was energetic.I was bad with the computer (the pen wasn’t it for me. My speed on the computer has always been wow!). And when I was handling the Bites and Kisses column of Tempo Magazine (a sister company of The News and P.M News) as a Reporter/Researcher, I was as “deadly’ as I was sweet. Ohhhh… Those…
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