Perspectives
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Multi-tracking Nigeria has become a compelling project, By Tunde Akanni
For the first time in the history of the country, and also acutely contrasting with simple logic and commonsense, a second runner up in the presidential election February 25, 2023, is making a most laughable claim of having won the election. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Peoples Congress, APC, had won the election with no fewer than two million…
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Competitiveness, credibility of 2023 polls, By Segun Ayobolu
It would appear from all indications that one of the key participants in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential elections, the Labour Party (LP), and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, had a clear-cut and straightforward agenda to dictate the dominant narrative on the polls before and after the exercise. Before the elections, a number of sponsored and obviously flawed opinion polls had…
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The Benue State killing field, By Yemi Adebowale
Several communities in Guma and Otukpo local government areas of Benue State are still mourning, days after spiteful attacks by terrorists. No fewer than 87 people were killed in the separate attacks by Fulani militias within 48 hours in these LGAs. Kids and pregnant women were not spared by the rampaging terrorists. Clearly, the tears of many of the affected…
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Asíwájú Bola Tinubu: Glory to Nigeria! By Femi Fani-Kayode
After the swearing in of our President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it will be a time for healing our land, building bridges between our people, showing love to our adversaries, re-building our nation, establishing eternal peace with all men of goodwill and putting an end to the hostility and acrimony that exists between us all. The new dispensation will usher in…
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Now that the dust is settling, By Ahmed Sule
The dust raised by the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the 25 February 2023 presidential election by the Independent Electoral Commission appears to be settling as the dispute is gradually moving from the noisy protestations on the streets and social media to the serene atmosphere of the courtroom for judicial review. About…
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The final gallop home
There’s a saying in Yoruba language that the horse does not spurn the final gallop home. True. Home is that place you go to rest, after the labour and toil of the day. It is that place you find succor and respite, after the vagaries and vicissitudes that go with your daily exertions. No wonder they say, home, sweet home.…
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Opinion: Implications Of A South East Senator As Chairman Of National Assembly, By Kola AMZAT
Nigeria is a diverse country of over 300 ethnic groups with Hausa-Fulanis, Yorubas and Igbos dominant with 25%, 21% and 18% of the population respectively. There are other fringe groups like Ijaws, Ibibios, Tivs, Idomas, Kanuris, Urhobos, Itsekiris etc that combine together to make up the most populous nation in the entire Africa. Even though, the ethnic multiplicity supposed to…
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Stears and the selective amnesia of Obidients, By Kingsley Okafor
Before the February 25, 2023 presidential election in Nigeria, supporters of Mr. Peter Obi, one-third of what had become a three-horse race, took to social media to validate, hail, and celebrate the Stears Predictive Poll, one that presented Mr. Obi as possible winner. Obi’s supporters – self styled Obidients – described the poll as “robust”, “the best”, among other glowing…
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Tribute to Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju (1845-2023), By Willie Obiano
I am saddened to learn of the passage, on April 11, 2023, of the first Anambra State governor in Fourth Republic, Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju, in Abuja. Mbadinuju’s reign as Anambra governor from 1999 to 2003 was a challenging period. He did his best to grapple with insecurity, perpetrated mostly by ruthless, unconscionable robbers armed to the teeth. He curbed the…
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Chimamanda Adichie: wishes are never horses, By Oluwole Coker
As a literary scholar, I have great admiration for Chimamanda Adichie’s gift as a writer. I have devoted considerable energy to study her work and that of other third-generation Nigerian fiction writers. This was the focus of my Ph.D thesis defended at the University of Ibadan over a decade ago. I also contributed a chapter to a major study on…
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