Perspectives
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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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Leadership must be selfless, By Kayode Adebiyi
Leadership is not a pursuit of self glorification and pursue of selfish lucre. It is about building leaders in different areas of democratic governance and building political institution that would engender a firmly rooted democratic culture within a nation. Peter Obi said he left 75 billion naira for Obiano meanwhile the debt he left behind was over 100 billion. Obiana…
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Oro worshippers must tell deity to calm down, By Bamidele Johnson
Somewhere in Lagos State, a clash between Oro devotees and members of a church has left one dead. The incident arose from the Oro devotees’ assumption that the restrictions their deity imposes must affect non-devotees, something I’ve seen with some egungun, which flog those who don’t roll up their trousers and remove footwear when around them. Oro devotees approached a…
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ANALYSIS: 25 things we know about crude oil super tanker, MT Heroic Idun, By Tolu Ogunlesi
MT HEROIC IDUN is a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) registered in the Marshall Islands, and has a capacity of 3 million barrels of crude oil. It was sailing with a crew of about 25 persons.It entered Nigerian waters on the 7th of August, 2022, and arrived the Akpo Oilfield (deep offshore) around midnight of that day, with, according to…
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Kashim Shettima: Dress doesn’t diminish the man, By Moddibo Kawu
The past 48 hours, have seen an explosion of stories, pictures, videos and memes, about Kashim Shettima, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the APC. These have been directly sourced, from his dressing, at the conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, in Lagos, on Monday. For the social media denizens, it was an opportunity to humour a leading Nigerian politician, as…
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Open Letter to Gov Wike (1), By Dr John Amadi
What did Rivers PDP Elders do? It appears there is no more love lost between Your Excellency, Chief Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, GSSRS, Executive Governor of Rivers and the erstwhile great Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) family in the state, the PDP elders in particular. Though you have remained unusually taciturn since after the PDP presidential primary election which you…
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NBA conference and where Obi failed to fly, By Philip Agbese
The Peter Obi phenomenon seems to be losing steam as the days go by. The recent outing at the Nigerian Bar Association Conference in Lagos buttressed this point. He is an intelligent chap. He plays the mind game to those that have elected to be gullible. He churns out facts and figures by impulse. And as usual, he gets cheered…
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Termites are suing for libel, By Mahmud Jega
As a trained Zoologist, former ground-level lecturer in Biological Sciences and a one-time ASUU member who has long since forgotten how to go on strike, I cannot stand idly by and watch human beings malign, ridicule, besmirch and smear the names of other animal species. Rising to the defence of animal species is my equivalent of constituency project. I am…
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Kashim Shettima: the starboy of the NBA show, By Bayo Onanuga
If someone had landed in Nigeria from Mars on Monday and read treads on Twitter Nigeria, he would have thought Senator Kashim Shettima was one tasteless, uneducated Nigerian. But the man so derisively targeted by a section of Twittersphere was nothing of such. He was a victim of the Twitter herd, people who behave like the herdsman’s cows, without any…
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Can ASUU grow beyond strike and learn from private institutions? By Kunle Awosiyan
I stumbled on the piece below on Harvard website and marvelled. The write-up reveals that our Nigeria’s universities lecturers can actually help the government and the country to solve the current educational problems. Instead of the strike, this piece shows that academics have actually been positioned to help the government and the country at large. The piece shows how Harvard…
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