Perspectives

HRM Oba Dr Sunday Aikuirawo Aniyi: it’s a new day in Erinmope-Ekiti, By Yinka Oyebode

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice…. (Proverbs 29 v 2) “Eniyan lo n muni mo’niyan”, that Yoruba song commonly sung during engagement ceremonies is apt in my relationship with HRM Oba Dr Sunday Aikuirawo Aniyi, who I met in person for the very first time during the build up to the June 22, 2018 Governorship election in…

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Tinubu’s indelible Lagos record, By Segun Ayobolu

“An oft-stated tale of Lagos’s once-notorious traffic jams is that of a taxi passenger stuck in a snarl-up who left the vehicle, wandered into a roadside restaurant to eat, drank a beer, took a nap and returned to the vehicle that had not moved an inch. He reached his destination several hours later. First-time visitors to Lagos about 10 years…

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$418m absurd fees: Desperate consultants unrelenting, By Yemi Adebowale

The six consultants aiming to grab a massive US$418 million state and local government money, supposedly for facilitating refunds of the over-deductions on their accounts by the federal government in obligations to Paris Club, are not in any way relenting in their desperate bid. They are on an appalling advocacy spree. It is shocking that these consultants are not sober…

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Time to suspend the battle, By Bolaji Adebiyi

Obviously frustrated by the prospects of an indefinite strike by the nation’s university teachers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, many Nigerians have started to call for a truce and an end to the raging hostility. In aid to the frustration, several media outlets have yielded their platforms to the complaining public, including notable public intellectuals…

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Duro Onabule: A library burns down, By Femi Adesina

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, says Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist (1901-1991). And so it was with frontline journalist, essayist and image maker of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) military administration, Chief Duro Onabule, who passed away August 16, 2022. It was about five weeks shy of his 83rd birthday. Yes,…

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It is time ASUU gives us an alternative to strikes, By Dare Babarinsa

There is no doubt that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has become the most popular, even notorious, trade union in Nigeria. Its power is far-reaching and its influence is unquantifiable. The ASUU strike of many months now has rendered many young Nigerians helpless. Some weeks ago, some young people in Ile-Ife, home of the historic Obafemi Awolowo University…

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ASUU: Time to end nightmare of students and parents, By Jide Oluwajuyitan

The ongoing war, now six months, between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the government remains intractable because of the incompetence of the warring parties. The duo of Ngige and Adamu are round pegs in square holes. ASUU, on the other hand, because its cause is right, thinks it can give what it does not have. The primary…

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Atiku’s illegal candidacy, By Jesutega Onokpasa

I do not believe that People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar, is a Nigerian but this is not by any means because of the grounds upon which certain persons went to court, and lost, seeking to stop him from vying for the presidency of Nigeria. As such, I am not at all insinuating that our beloved people…

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Could Wike be the end of Atiku’s sixth run for president? By Fredrick Nwabufo

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, could be the kryptonite of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike has remained implacable and untrammelled. And he seems determined to take his pound of flesh after his humiliation by Atiku. Wike will not relent until he draws blood. There is a method to Wike’s madness. Wike cannot be…

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Yoruba music genres: Who’s gonna fill their shoes, By Kunle Awosiyan

Most adults still have vivid memories of the varieties of music we enjoyed growing up. Today’s youths will either go for Fuji or Afro hip-hop. Some of them who speak about Fela Anikukapo Kuti only know about the legend through “Felabration” where their own music stars perform annually. The youths of today hardly listen to the songs of Fela nor…

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