Perspectives
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Atiku complex, By Sam Omatseye
Last week, this essayist wondered at Atiku’s math for dumping five or six governors and replacing them with Ayu. The other mathematical oddity was harped on again last week by the APC governorship candidate in Delta State, Ovie Omo-Agege, when he lashed out at Atiku for selling the Delta Steel Complex that cost the Federal Government $1.5 billion for a…
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Jah-Man… In praise of a selfless spirit @60, By Chuks Nwanne
But wait o, who asks for Jahman Anikulapo tribute and then pegs the word count between 400 and 500? No way, that’s not possible. Except you are an outsider, it is difficult, if not impossible, to write about this spirit man and then be counting words. So, I’ve resolved to make comments, not really a tribute, in praise of a…
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Fantastic voyage, By Sam Omatseye
It has been long coming. Like the man awaiting a beloved one, we have stood at the train station, waiting for the hoot. We had hope, but no help. From year to year, decade to decade and a century dovetailing into the next, the weary beloved knows the journey is not an easy one. It started with a promise, and…
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Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope – A revolutionary synergy of the public and private sector, By Tope Fasua
The APC Presidential Candidate’s superlative and candid showing with the Nigeria Economic Summit Group on the 13th of January 2023 has naturally endeared him further to millions of voters across the country. A legion of former doubters including those who had based their opinions on skits put together by usually unserious minds who seek whatever they could twist in every…
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Obasanjo, Tinubu and leadership acumen, By Segun Ayobolu
There can be no disputing the fact that every successor to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu since the latter’s exit from the governorship of Lagos State after two terms in 2007 – Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), Mr. Akinwumi Ambode and now Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu – have been men of competence and accomplishment with proven and impressive records of performance. But…
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A thought for our domestic staff, By Simbo Olorunfemi
Early morning walk has become a part of my daily routine now, since I made a commitment to it months ago. It is therapeutic for body and mind for many reasons. But then, not just for the body and mind. Not just for the opportunity to listen to the silence yearning for ears from within but to meditate and dig…
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How far can Peter Obi go? By Olusegun Adeniyi
THISDAY headquarters on Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos was not far from Mr Peter Obi’s corporate office. So, we visited each other regularly before he became Governor of Anambra State. Not only has our friendship endured, but Obi has remained the same man I first encountered more than two decades ago. Simple. Gracious. And, as I have learnt over the years,…
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Media-induced anxiety over 2023 polls, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Media reports on the possibility of postponing or cancelling the 2023 general election earlier in the week agitated many quarters. Abdullahi Zuru, chairman of the Board of Electoral Institute, a parastatal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, was reported to have quoted his boss, Mahmood Yakubu, the chair of INEC, to have suggested that rising insecurity across the country, if…
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From N’East with good tidings
Who feels it knows it all. Perhaps the region most affected by the insurgency that almost strangulated the country since 2009 is the North East. It was there that Boko Haram started, proliferated, and spread to other parts of the land. I was in two States in the region early this week, joining President Muhammadu Buhari to take part in…
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Osun Tribunal: They can run, lie but law, truth shall prevail, By Ismail Omipidan
Barring any die-minute change, the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal will this Friday, January 13, see the parties in the governorship election litigation adopt their final written addresses. Since 1999, outcomes of Election Petitions Tribunal sittings have in no small way helped to deepen the country’s electoral system. I am persuaded that this particular case will not be an exception. Like…
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