Perspectives
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Will Ghanaian President Survive this storm? By Azu Ishiekwene
Not so long ago, he was the poster boy of what looked like an African renaissance. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo didn’t only know what to say, he also knew when and how. I still remember 2018. Barely one year after Akufo-Addo was inaugurated, he was on the big stage. He was the first African leader to address the National Governors…
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For Afuye, a long goodnight, By Dare Babarinsa
It is not easy to come to terms with the sudden passage of Funminiyi Afuye, the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly until his sudden death last month. He and his wife, Titi, were planning the wedding of their daughter, Abisola, but fate had other plans. So, on Sunday, October 16, Afuye had gone to the Ekiti State Pavilion,…
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Entangled: A review, By Bolajoko Bayo-Ajayi
When I first laid my hands on this book – the title brought back a memory of the word entanglement that trended a few years ago. So my curiosity was heightened. On the day I received it, I had planned to read it over the weekend, but I started on my drive home and couldn’t drop the book till I…
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US mid-term election: A timely lesson for Nigerians, By Uche Diala
The much awaited American mid-term election has come and is going and the results as they pan out all but defy all projections, expectations and known traditions of American mid-term elections regarding a ruling party. Significant to note is that the predicted “red wave” did not happen. In the lead up to the election, Republicans especially its ‘MAGA’ wing led…
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How not to talk with Africa about climate change, By Muhammadu Buhari
Part of my nation is underwater. Seasonal flooding is normal in Nigeria, but not like this. Thirty-four of the country’s 36 states have been affected. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced. Together with drought-driven famine in the Horn of Africa, cascading wildfires across the North and wave upon wave of intensifying cyclones in the South, climate disasters in…
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Ortom’s ceaseless diatribes against Atiku: A call for restraint, By Terry T Waya
It has become necessary for me as a mutual friend of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, Wazirin Adamawa and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, to intervene and correct some misleading insinuations peddled in recent media outbursts. I wish to begin by stating that I have stood by Governor Samuel Ortom through all his political challenges beginning from his unfair treatment…
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A new agenda for telling Africa’s stories, By Omoniyi Ibietan
As a theory of knowledge, perspectivism speaks to the notion that our knowledge and perception of anything is shaped by the interpretation of those observing the occurrence of things. Interestingly, we now have the grace to glean as many perspectives as the number of people observing events. Thanks to the reigning paradigm of public digital communication culture that gives unprecedented…
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As PDP schemes a return to power through the courts, By Jesutega Onokpasa
I just read with exceeding consternation that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, is presently prosecuting a most shamefully self-centered and shamelessly opportunistic case seeking to have absolutely each and every candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the next elections disqualified on grounds that they have been illegally presented for the polls, having been so put forward by allegedly…
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2023: The media, responsibility and integrity, By Segun Ayobolu
It could not have been more tersely phrased. Section 22 of the Second Chapter of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended) on the ‘Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy’ states unambiguously that “The press, radio, television and other agencies of the mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this chapter…
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Afenifere on the boil, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Disagreement within the Yoruba social-cultural organisation over the 2023 presidential race shows a decline in its consensual approach to politics, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, has been embroiled in a political controversy since Sunday. It arose from the visit of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, to the Akure, Ondo State home of…
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