Perspectives

The Homecoming, By Wale Bakare

The flight from Schipol Airport, Amsterdam, to Lagos was about a third of the way in when I got up and walked to the back to stretch my legs. This was a habit I had developed over years of frequent flying over long distances and I seriously recommend it to other travellers that have to make long, international flights. That…

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Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art: The beauties that represent our enigmatic continent, By Toyin Falola

People have different qualifications for art: some say it is therapeutic; others say it is inspirational; there are, of course, those who see it as educational. To Prince Shyllon, art is indeed all of these things, as documented in the impressive Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art based in Pan-Atlantic University (https://museum.pau.edu.ng). However, art’s ability to heal, educate, and inspire is…

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Dapo Olorunyomi, emerges first African Fellow of the Poynter Institute, By Omoniyi Ibietan

Oyekunle Dapo Olorunyomi, founder of Premium Times Group, multimedia journalist and media entrepreneur, and the most celebrated journalist in contemporary Nigeria, has been announced the first African Fellow of the Poynter Institute. The Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism, fact-checking and media literacy education, just announced Olorunyomi and 26 other leaders in media across the globe for the 2023…

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Who pays back the debt we owe Nigeria? By Kunle Ilupeju

This is a question that popped up in my mind sometime ago while having an intercultural discussion with a Canadian friend. I informed her during the discussion that Education is very cheap in Nigeria when compared to Canada principally due to its subsidized nature by the government. I further stated that most Nigerians, especially in Canada, are highly educated as…

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My worst flight experiences, By Bamidele Johnson

May 3, 2002. That was the first day I met Shina Badaru, then IT Editor of This Day. It was a chance meeting on a flight from Abuja to Lagos. I was returning with Simon Kolawole, then Editor of This Day on Saturday, and Ademola Adegbamigbe, editor of TheNEWS, when we met him on the plane and got introduced to…

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The thundering turnout for Tinubu in Yola, By Bala Ibrahim

The people of Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, and home to the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have joined the bandwagon, by going in the popular trend of supporting the increasingly attractive train of the Tinubu/Shetima campaign caravan, which has made an alarming appearance in the city today. The trio of President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Chairman of the…

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Jandor’s delusions of grandeur, By Funke Cole

The Lagos State gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, aka Jandor, for want of a better character portraiture is one man who is afraid of his own shadows. For only a man afraid of his own shadows will forcefully deny that Lagos State under Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is not just steadily working but is at the…

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Kenimani complex, By Sam Omatseye

He was a PHD before he had a PHD. The first is an attitude while the second PHD is a certificate. The first played out as student, soldier, politician, head of state and ex-head of state. The second PHD was bestowed as ex-president. The first came on the street, office, family lounge and war room, battlefield and on the street.…

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The sociology of social network revolution, By Omoniyi Ibietan

Recently, in giving expression to my community duties as a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), and as a trustee of the Nigeria Institute of Social Media Analysts (NISMA), I was part of the faculty at the 2022 annual conference of the Public Affairs Division of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). Thematised on the fate of…

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Robbing our children of their childhood, By Adedamola Adetayo

I live in Abeokuta. I love the peace here, na money remain. When I first moved into my current apartment the place in December 2020, I tried to practice my old school, village upbringing. My current accomodation is a three-bedroom flat in a block of four flats. I took my wife and children and went KNOCKING on my neighbours doors…

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