Perspectives

From newsroom to public information management

It is doubtful if any accomplished journalist who had served a term as a media aide to any public figure of note would ever accept such a responsibility again. Those who had accepted the job hoping to impact positively on the public policy found out shortly that it was not worth their greatest of efforts. But they realized that it…

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Category by category, By Wale Bakare

Right from when we were teenagers, my friend K.K. had a rather quaint way of looking at the imbalances in life. He always had a proverb or saying for any situation. It was from him I first learnt that “ko sin nkan ti o nbo lati oke ti ile o le gba” (Nothing can fall from the skies that the…

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Buhari at 80: No malicious bone in his body

Let me start with a story told by an unrepentant critic of one of our former Presidents. There was no love lost between the two, and the antipathy was mutual. That former President is a rather forceful personality, and loves to have his way. It’s either his way, or no way. One day, while he still occupied the Presidential Villa,…

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Reuben Abati, PDP and his hypocrisy, By Chimaroke Nnamani

Reuben Adeleye Abati is a Nigerian Journalist, Politician, Television Anchor and Newspaper Columnist. He was the Peoples Democratic Party’s Deputy Governorship candidate in Ogun State for the 2019 Gubernatorial election. And Politics is his serious business. We are family. We have Abati in it. He is as principled a politician as all of us. I mean his colleague politicians. As…

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Facts Nigerians must know about stamp duty, By Garba Shehu

President Muhammadu Buhari came into office in 2015 to find that a law, which stipulated for the collection of a token on banking transactions existed but was not being correctly implemented This anomaly arose because certain characters apparently formed a cartel with collaborators in the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST and were allegedly collecting and pocketing this money. Soon after, a…

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Obaigbena lies again without shame, manufactures alternate reality-Dele Alake, Bayo Onanuga

Ordinarily, we consider it beneath us as well-bred media professionals to continue to engage in public spat with Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, a congenital blackmailer and hustler, especially in deference to ceasefire calls by well-meaning leaders and elders. The interventions followed our statement on Monday entitled “Obaigbena and His THISDAY/ARISE News’ Hypocritical Grandstanding On Public Morality”. But we crave the indulgence…

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Friendships at the workplace, By Emeka Oparah

The workplace is a veritable platform to make friends and build relationships. Many have even met and married their spouses at the workplace. Such is the level of intimacy that can be developed in the workplace, when conducted openly and managed like professionals. Indeed, many have built family relationships right from the workplace and children of co-workers have been involved…

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What has Obaigbena done to Thisday/Arise TV? By Jesutega Onokpasa

Having most woefully failed to blackmail and intimidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu into dancing to its tune and attending its usually rowdy and rambunctious events, Arise Tv, alongside its sister outfit, Thisday Newspaper, has been resorting to all manner of the most shamefully unprofessional shenanigans to get back at Tinubu including the deployment of the most atrociously fake news items, as…

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Putting African aspirations first, By Ebenezer Obadare

This week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit could not have come at a more opportune moment. The first since President Barack Obama hosted African leaders in 2014, it is taking place against the backdrop of a certain urgency, induced by a noticeable shift in the temper of U.S.-Africa relations. The reasons behind this shift are not far-fetched, the most predominant one being…

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Soyinka, Pyrates Confraternity and the God Factor, By Tunji Olaopa

The invitation of Professor Wole Soyinka to the just concluded Lagos Book and Art Festival was, as is usual with WS, an event all by itself. From poetry to activism, and from scholarship to Nigerian politics, Wole Soyinka’s intellectual pungency has not been diminished by age. At the occasion, he put paid to all speculations about his religious affiliation. When…

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