Perspectives

NNPC’s prickly ‘political’ crude oil drilling, By Yemi Adebowale

Ten days back, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) lavishly celebrated the commencement of exploratory drilling of Ebenyi-A well in Obi, Nasarawa State, with the assurance that the effort would contribute to its aspiration to grow Nigeria’s crude oil reserves from 37 billion barrels to 50 billion barrels. President Muhammadu Buhari, speaking at the “spudding” of the well, the…

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Osun: Time to halt dubious and fraudulent attitude to governance is now! By Ismail Omipidan

Today is not about long turenci . It is to put the public in Osun and beyond on notice that what His Excellency, Adegboyega Oyetola, said in the build-up to the 2022 July governorship election is already playing out. Oyetola had warned his fellow contenders then not to play politics with people’s lives by promising what was practically impossible considering…

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Chimamanda: Nigeria’s positively growing democracy, By Dele Alake

The noted and internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist and essayist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, deserves a great deal of pity and sympathy for her so utterly biased piece titled ‘Nigeria’s hollow democracy’ published in the latest edition of ‘The Atlantic’ magazine. It is a piece that does little credit to the image and reputation of a leading Nigerian thinker who ought to…

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Good Friday; not really for Rwandans! By Emeka Oparah

“Tomorrow will not be a good Friday here,” my Rwandan friend said, melancholically, as we rounded off our call. And I got the message. Today (the tomorrow she was referring to) may have been ironically named Good Friday by Christians (in commemoration of the day Jesus Christ was murdered), but for Rwandans, today is literally and metaphorically (a) Bad Friday.…

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Chimamanda Adichie: Election is not a literary contest, By Kayode Adebiyi

Yesterday, I read an op-ed by Chimamanda Adichie addressed to the President of the United States published by The Atlantic, an influential foreign policy journal in the Unites States. Unfortunately, Chimamanda in her very beautiful prose and the usual high falluting language opined that her candidate, Peter Obi who came distant 3rd in the just concluded Nigerian presidential election was…

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Fascism on course, By Wole Soyinka

It would appear that a record discharge of toxic sludge from our notorious smut factory is currently clogging the streets and sewers of the Republic of Liars. It goes to prove the point that provoked the avalanche EXACTLY! The seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured. A climate of fear is being generated. The refusal to…

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Chimamanda Adichie: A slave in love with her chains, By Legendary Joe

A branch directly from the tree of Chinua, …not surprising. Chinua (Achebe) almost at the departure lounge parted this planetary realm with a brilliant work of art titled “There was a country”, an account of Civil War, where the Giant of Literature and author of one of the most celebrated works of art ‘Things Fall Apart’, forsook decorum and divorced…

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At daggers drawn, By Bolaji Adebiyi

Hopes for the de-escalation of tension that arose from the declaration of All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 25 February presidential election dimmed on Wednesday as the federal government and Peter Obi of the Labour Party were at daggers drawn over the former’s allegation that the latter’s activities since the declaration of the poll’s results were…

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Prof Nnenna Oti: How Buhari loves them

There’s a striking similitude between what happened in the gubernatorial election in Ekiti State in 2009, and Abia State in 2023. And two women were at the center of it all, talking Christianity and conscience. But the denouement of the events were in sharp contrast. Engineer Segun Oni of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Dr Kayode Fayemi of the…

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Know your rights as a passenger on a flight in Nigeria, By Bologi Jimada 

If you are a frequent Flyer, be it domestic or international, chances are you have endured very long and frustrating delays and cancellations at one time or the other. Some times you feel so helpless because you no longer have enough funds for an alternate airline or a hotel especially after the airline staff have quietly disappeared for the night.…

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