Perspectives
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The last dance at UNGA
“This is the last that we shall dance together,” Wole Soyinka wrote in Kongi’s Harvest. And that was what President Muhammadu Buhari did Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States of America. The President had his last dance, and how dainty and dignified were the steps. He didn’t do the one Lagbaja described as ‘hands…
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Olojo and why we need to take care of our mother, By Dare Babarinsa
On Saturday, September 24, Kabiyesi Oba Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife, will play host to thousands of people joining him to celebrate this year’s Olojo Festival. The Festival is set aside in Ile-Ife to commemorate the day of creation. It is the most important festival in Ife calendar when the Ooni wears the sacred Aare crown…
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Mahdi’s story get as e be, By Mahmud Jega
The elaborately sensational story that Kaduna-based businessman and activist Mahdi Shehu told in an Arise TV interview last week raised many questions that are begging for answers. The first problem had to do with Mahdi’s credibility after the elaborate medical scam he perpetrated last year in order to deceive a court. He had been arraigned in a Katsina court for…
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Musicians as historians, By Folorunso Fatai Adisa
A good musician may double as a good historian. Like Ayinla’s “National Census” 1973 and the 1974 Challenge Cup Final (now known as the FA cup) between Mighty Jets and Enugu Rangers remain a masterclass and documentation of history, I first learned about the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970, from one of Haruna Ishola’s numerous tracks. Interestingly, two names out of…
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Keeping faith with values that endure, By Muhammadu Buhari
On behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria, I congratulate you on your well-deserved election as President of the 77th Session of this August Assembly. I assure you of the full support and cooperation of the Nigerian delegation during your tenure. I commend your predecessor, H.E Abdullah Shahid for the many remarkable achievements of the General Assembly under his…
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Of bread, cinema, photos and Ilorin reminiscences, By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu
I HAVE spent the weekend in Ilorin, after a week’s visit to Maiduguri. And that included my birthday, September 5th, which meant that, for the umpteenth time, I was away from my family, on the eve of my children’s return to school for the new session. When I tell my friends that I carry the gene of travel as a…
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The Bola Tinubu they don’t know, By Balogun Ibrahim
The seemingly ingrained tendency for human beings to so easily forget their antecedents, repay evil for good and seek to destroy those God chose to use as their benefactors never ceases to amaze me. As a passionate member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I am saddened at the concerted, coordinated and consistent effort by a caucus within the party…
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Akin Mabogunje: Nigerian urban geographer who mapped the origin and trends of African cities, By Basirat Oyalowo
I was introduced to Professor Akin Mabogunje’s work when I joined the Department of Estate Management at the University of Lagos in 2011. As a new junior lecturer, I had to read the key text being used by my course leader. It was here that I first encountered Mabogunje’s work on urbanisation in Nigeria. I never met Mabogunje, who died in Lagos…
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Oyetola, Election Petition Tribunal and the Estoppel Doctrine, By Adedeji Adebayo
It is no longer news that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) issued to PDP a Certified True Copy of BVAS Report which is diametrically at variance with the one it earlier issued to APC and Governor Oyetola. Labouring to prove their case at the Tribunal, APC and Oyetola have countered that INEC should be ESTOPPED from asserting a contrary…
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Why I went to Shetima, By Chukwuemeka Ezeife
Yes, I went, uninvited, to Shettima, I was accompanied by a Maiduguri-born and brought up businessman of south-east extraction. Why? More than a year ago a well built young man came to my office in Abuja crying desperately. He talked like someone considering suicide! He told me that he was finished, that the clothes on him were the only property…
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