Perspectives

Demolish these facts, if you can

It is very amusing to hear people try to denigrate the achievements of the anti-corruption war under President Muhammadu Buhari. But facts are stubborn things. The more you try to deny or contemn them, the bolder they stare at you in the face. Boldly, even rudely. President Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have had three guiding…

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Afenifere: Beyond Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, By Wale Adedayo

The recent visit of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to the Akure home of Pa Reuben Fasoranti continues to raise dust among many Yoruba, with almost all those making comments failing to take congnisance of the historic meaning of the visit and its implications for the Yoruba Nation. For a number of Yoruba, including…

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In Yorubaland, a king is not buried alive, By Dare Babarinsa

Afenifere is in the news again for its own sake. What has triggered the latest soul-searching for the pan-Yoruba political and cultural organisation was the public visit of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to the Akure, Ondo State, country home of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of Afenifere. This visit has…

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Regional commodity exchanges as the ultimate panacea to rural poverty and low agricultural productivity, By Taminu Yakubu

Nigeria has 75 million hectares of land for farming. Of these, only 44% or 33 million has been deployed into production with a yield hardly up to 20% of the average standard threshold. Nigeria has 1.2 million hectares for irrigation, with only 25% of it or 300,000 hectares under cultivation. The observed suboptimal output is certainly due to low productivity…

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Tinubu’s manifesto and the South-East, By Frederick Nwabufo

What is in it for us? When it comes down to brass tacks, this is the question tugging at the heart of zonal political interests in Nigeria. The national integrants think in favour of group interest and protection. How will this government preserve our interest? Will this government be fair to us? Will this government secure our rights and freedoms?…

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Oke – Koto water debacle and the question of the needful, By Olajide Shuaib

It’s no longer a news that the descension of the Pen cinema Agege flyover at Oke-Koto Agunbiade end is undergoing a repair work barely a year after its commissioning. Prior the repair work, driving through the area to Ikeja, Oshodi or Iyana Ipaja particularly in the outgoing rainy season became excruciating as a result of the large failed portions of…

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2023: Who are the Yoruba leaders? By Adewale Adeoye

I dont know if there is division in Afenifere But I watched Pa Fasoranti this evening on TV He said “Tinubu, O maa wo le” which means “Tinubu, you will win.” Chief Olu Falae spoke in the same vein. I guess Baba Fasoranti acted based on his conscience either rightly or wrongful. At the fullness of time in the coming…

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The Igbo insularity and it’s Yoruba wàhálà, By Chimaroke Nnamani

How did the Igbo get to this? Who sold this massive con job? Who are the snake oil salesmen? Why the perceived mistrust of the Yoruba? We never fought? Our properties were never seized? Our businesses thriving in their Homelands? Blossoming intermarriages with multiple offsprings? Common language etymology. They stayed out of Nigeria/Biafra war until the Benin expedition.Fajuyi died for…

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AbdulRazaq breaks jinx of water crisis in Kwara, 55 years after

By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin Water is life because no human being and even non-human being could survive without it. It’s so critical to every minute of human existence and has no alternative. Since Kwara State was created on 27th May 1967, efforts by every successive administration to provide portable water for the people came to naught Investigations revealed that the…

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Log in thine eyes, By Mahmud Jega

If the US government’s security agencies are so good at spotting terrorist attacks before they happen, how come they did not issue a terror alert in San Francisco last Friday when a man entered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home, shouting “Where is Nancy?” and then attacked her 82-year-old husband, Paul, with a hammer? Was the US State Department actually trying…

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