Perspectives
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Does Dele Momodu understand the meaning of friendship? By Reno Omokri
What does Egbon Dele Momodu mean when he says President Tinubu “cannot hold Nigeria by the jugular like he did in Lagos”? That is an ambiguous statement that is neither here nor there. Can he throw more light on what he is trying to communicate? As President of Nigeria, shouldn’t Asiwaju Tinubu be in full control of the country? Should…
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Nigeria and Brazil: A partnership of equals in a changing world, by Abdulkabir Adisa
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu walked side by side with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília last week, it was more than the choreography of diplomacy. It was the meeting of two nations whose histories are intertwined and whose futures beckon toward shared prosperity. Nigeria and Brazil are not strangers. Both are continental giants, blessed with human capital,…
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Every El-Rufai accusation is a confession, by Farooq Kperogi
There is a popular American political proverb that goes: “Every accusation is a confession.” It describes the tendency for politicians to attribute to rivals the very traits, desires, guilty knowledge, or actions they themselves harbor or have committed. No one embodies this proverb more spectacularly than Malam Nasir El-Rufai. For example, in 2017, he admitted on national television that he…
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Adesina, the king of Africa, by Dare Babarinsa
After 10 giddy, momentous and productive years, His Excellency, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has now stepped down as the President of the African Development Bank, ADB. In that office, he was like a king, overseeing the development of the African people, ensuring that, despite the nasty bush wars that dotted the continent, we are moving forward. He is a pride to…
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Nigeria and Brazil: A partnership of equals in a changing world, by Abdulkabir Adisa
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu walked side by side with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília last week, it was more than the choreography of diplomacy. It was the meeting of two nations whose histories are intertwined and whose futures beckon toward shared prosperity. Nigeria and Brazil are not strangers. Both are continental giants, blessed with human capital,…
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Nigeria’s spoilt generation: How overpampering is destroying our future! – by Wole Arisekola
We are loving our children into uselessness. We are raising a generation that believes wealth is inherited, not earned; that comfort is a birthright, not a reward. From flying first class before their first job, to demanding six-figure salaries with zero skills — we are breeding entitlement, not excellence. This is not love. This is a slow, sweet poison. And…
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The hypocrisy of Dele Momodu ‘s so-called friendship, by Kayode Adebiyi
It has come to a point where it now feels nauseating to me every time Mr. Dele Momodu attacks the President, only to quickly parrot the same tired line that “President Tinubu is my friend, and I am closer to him than many who daily attack me because I publicly criticise him.” Then, the next he does is to dig…
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El-Rufai: an infantile mind, blind to political realities, by Kola Amzat
Through the sheer grace of providence, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has been for long, stupendously prosperous in Nigeria political plain. At a relatively younger age, PDP democratically elected government led by Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired army general handed him the plum job of Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). The same government totally thrusted him into national limelight by ensuring…
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Time for a general rollout of the African passport, by Simbo Olorunfemi and Ade Adefeko
Africa is today at midcourse, in transition from the Africa of yesterday to the Africa of Tomorrow. Even as we stand here, we move from the past into the future. The task, on which we have embarked, the making of Africa, will not wait. We must act, to shape and mould the future and leave our imprint on events as…
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Yusuf Tuggar’s foreign policy doctrine of ‘strategic autonomy’ in RAP, by Simbo Olorunfemi
“Flavor Flav has problems of his own,I can’t do nuttin’ for ya man” – Public Enemy Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, took quite a few people by surprise during a live TV interview when, in addressing the reported demand by the US for Nigeria to accept deportees from Venezuela, he instinctively tapped on a punchline from the American RAP…
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