Perspectives

Tinubu: Surmounting the odds and healing the wounds, By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz

For a hurdler who laboriously surmounted many hurdles on his way to the finish line, there could be the temptation for chest-beating and gloating. The victory was well earned. He worked for it and it came as a vindication that through acts of providence and hard work destiny could be fulfilled in spite of mountainous challenges. But for Asiwaju Bola…

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Decision 2023: the BVAS revolution, By Dan Agbese

The conduct of our national elections suffers from two historical disabilities that are deleterious to its health. One is trust deficit and the other is a template, which provides the basis for judging all our elections the same way, no matter what progress we might have made in our leadership recruitment process. The first disability posits that no Nigerian should…

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A man of faith, By Sam Omatseye

What Asiwaju Bola Tinubu – the president-elect – just pulled off is a miracle but the merchants of miracles in our midst are not shouting hallelujah. They are still querulous. Rather than see a divine halo in the man’s march to his hallowed dream, they were trying to choreograph the divine poise. They did not see his seesaw of obstacles…

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Tinubu: Now that you have been elected, By Ayobami Oyalowo

Let me start by congratulating you on winning what is probably the most keenly contested election in Nigeria, since the return of democracy in 1999. Without a doubt, you would have gotten an enormous number of congratulatory messages both locally and internationally, I therefore join all Nigerians, your well wishers, supporters, and the global community to wish you all the…

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Kashim Shettima, Dutse and the Emir’s coronation, By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

We landed at the Dutse Airport at 1105HRS. For me, this was a moment of poignant remembrance. Between 2013 and 2014, I drove to and from Dutse, dozens of times. I was part of a team of media experts that then governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, had put together to help midwife Jigawa State Television. True to his NEPU/PRP…

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How PDP is pushing Osun Civil Servants to keep their eggs in one basket, By Samuel Adereti

We have learnt about the plan of a class of senior civil servants in Osun State to coerce, persuade and cajole their junior colleagues to vote for all candidates of the PDP in the next Saturday’s house of assembly elections. They run on a propaganda that voting APC candidates would be unwise because they would be combative to the administration…

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Sanwo-Olu: Waiting on the spirit of Lagos, By Olawale Olaleye

Former US President, Barack Obama, isn’t just endowed with hypnotic gift of the gab or oratory skills, there is always a take-home from his knowledge and wealth of experience each time he speaks, albeit not for the feeble-minded. Whenever he communicates, only the deep can understand the context, and of course, its intrinsic message. One of the all-time outstanding speeches…

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Another election, another trouble, By Simon Kolawole

Wow! The inevitable disputes aside, what an amazing presidential election we just had! Surely one of the most extraordinary in our history. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), losing at home to Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeating APC in President Muhammadu Buhari’s…

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We must rise against ‘Tribesmen’ and ‘Idiots’, By Omoniyi Ibietan

I had earlier submitted the statement below as a comment to a post made much earlier by Joel Nwokeoma Thank you, dear friend and brother. I am happy to occupy same geographical space with you as a citizen and compatriot and I look forward to God, whose prerogative it is to decide who we are, to strengthen the bond of…

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Sanwo-Olu wins my heart….again! By Segun Odegbami

This has nothing to do with the politics of the day. It has everything to do with the man, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. If revealing the deepest feelings in my heart for a man who is presently engrossed in politics is considered political, then I gladly plead ‘guilty’. The story of Henry Nwosu’s health situation is well documented in the Nigerian media.…

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