Perspectives
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Nigeria is unfinished, not hopeless — by Abayomi Ishola
There is something deeply Nigerian about sitting in darkness while arguing about how to fix the country. The generator coughs into life. A neighbour curses the electricity supply. Someone reaches for a phone and begins comparing Nigeria with Britain, America, Dubai or Singapore. Another declares that Nigeria is hopeless. Before the conversation ends, patriotism has become a quarrel between those…
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The seventh bid of Waziri — by Femi Fani-Kayode
Waziri Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria, has attempted to become President of our nation no less than 6 times and his latest attempt is the 7th. In 1993 he contested the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential primaries and lost to MKO Abiola. In 2007 he contested as the Action Congress (AC) presidential candidate in the general election…
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El-Rufai’s betrayers and betrayals — by Festus Adedayo
My first encounter with Nasir El-Rufai was in year 2000 at the Akodo Resort, a popular Lagos beachfront getaway along the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Ibeju-Lekki. As Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), he had come to sell to his audience the talismanic powers of the BPE in unbundling the potential of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration. I saw a…
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Von-Batten: A black sheep’s $700 billion perfidy — by Olabode Opeseitan
There is a Yoruba proverb for households that seem improbably calm: Bi ile kan ba’n toro, omo ale ibe ni ko ti d’agba. If there is peace and tranquillity in a family, it is because the black sheep of that family has not yet come of age. Nigeria’s black sheep came of age this month, and he did so wearing…
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ADC’S presidential campaign council replete of political clowns & discredited politicians, by Kola Amzat
When the head is rotten, do Nigerians expect otherwise from his political faithful and adherents? Do we expect Turakin Adamawa to populate his party’s Presidential Campaign Council with decent, credible and people of exemplary character? This would be a mirage! It would never happen! This really accounts for the composition of the party’s Campaign Council with politicians that are politically…
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Mike Adenuga: The power of invisibility for personal branding — by Kayode Adebiyi
So, what makes a man like Dr. Mike Adenuga’s personal brand thick? I think it is intentionality. Mike Adenuga seems to have mastered something many successful people never understand: you don’t have to be visible to be influential. In a world where billionaires are constantly granting interviews, attending economic summits, appearing at parties, meeting presidents and prime ministers, and displaying…
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2027: Atiku and the desperate last dance – by Seye Oladejo
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has announced that 2027 will be his final presidential outing. In his own words, this is his “last attempt” at the presidency. That admission provides an important lens through which Nigerians should examine the increasingly frantic political manoeuvres surrounding his latest bid. There is nothing wrong with ambition. There is nothing wrong with contesting an…
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Ogun’s $7bn port: Privately-led investment weaponised to smear Tinubu — by Olabode Opeseitan
In Kano, there is a tavern-table argument that resurfaces every now and then, usually after a fresh wave of national conversation about Lagos. Why, some ask, could Aliko Dangote not have built his refinery at home, in the north, and simply laid pipelines: one stretching nearly 2,000 kilometres south to the Niger Delta to draw in crude, and another running…
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King Sunny Ade at 80: My reminiscences — by Kayode Adebiyi
I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, the years when King Sunny Ade released some of the albums and tracks that would go on to become timeless classics. For me, however, King Sunny Ade’s music was more than just music. It became the soundtrack of my childhood, the signature tune of my growing-up years and, in many ways, the…
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Nigeria at UNGA 81: Why focus should be on results not physical presence — by Akinremi Bolaji
This is my Opinion as a retired senior Director of Nigeria Foreign Ministry and Author of the 7-Star Diplomat. There has understandably been public discussion about the decision of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to attend physically the high-level week of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. While a presidential presence at the United Nations is always…
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