Perspectives

Nigeria Ain’t Just Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, By Bamidele Johnson

One morning in 2003, an old omo onile (the troublesome descendants of original land-owning families) saw me on a road between a plot of land I had just bought and that of my friend, who had just started building. The omo onile knew us together and wanted me to deliver a message to my friend who, he said, was owing…

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ASUU strike: How to save the University system from total collapse, By Tukur Sa’ad

I believe I am misquoted by one of the contributors above. I am not saying universities should be privatised. We have seen what privatisation means in Nigeria and we also see how the existing private universities are mostly dependent on Government universities to run. We have lecturers on sabbatical, adjunct, part time, leave of absence, visiting or whatever ASUU decides…

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Who will love this country? By Simon Kolawole

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, Dr Olu Agunloye, then minister of power and steel, presented a memo to the federal executive council (FEC). He sought its approval to award a build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract for the Mambilla Hydropower Project to Sunrise Power and Transmission Ltd, a company promoted by Chief Leno Adesanya. The project, conceived in 1972, has…

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BOS: Apapa, Okada, rail, By Segun Ayobolu

When he spoke on the then appalling Apapa traffic gridlock that hitherto defied all attempts at an enduring solution at the formal handing over of three new improved traffic-prone junctions along the Lagos-Expressway over a year ago, Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu (BOS) of Lagos State sounded tentative and somewhat hesitant. In his words on that occasion, “What we are seeing…

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ASUU: Punishing the patient to peeve the Provost, By Bala Ibrahim

As reactions continue to follow my perceived provocative article on the intransigence of the leadership of ASUU, one thing is clearly manifest-the academia of today, is pregnant with intolerance. Some lecturers, or ASUU apologists, are unwilling to accept views that differ from theirs. That is a characteristic in conflict with the long established scholarly approach to intellectual discourse. In response…

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Choose a path of free and sovereign development, By Vladimir Putin

Ladies and gentlemen, Esteemed foreign guests, Let me welcome you to the10th anniversary of Moscow Conference on International Security. Over the past decade, your representative forum has become a significant venue for discussing the most pressing military-political problems. Today, such an open discussion is particularly pertinent. The situation in the world is changing dynamically and the outlines of a multipolar…

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Electricity workers’ strike and a nation of hostage takers, By Sola Salako-Ajulo

“Nigerians, this is who we truly are: Self centered “terrorists”, “hostage takers” and “blackmailers. The Nigerian nation is gradually being held in bondage by ‘citizen activism’ and ‘unionism’ for self centered reasons.I am an activist and believe in unionism, but what we practice in Nigeria now is NOT in anyway reflective of the founding principles of activism. Imagine workers resisting…

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Cleaning black money in Nigeria as national imperative, By Tope Fasua

I was going to really join issues with one of Nigeria’s top economists and member of the president’s economic advisory committee – Mr. Bismarck Rewane. But I will now tone things down a little because he’s been out calling for those who have taken his presentations out of context to correct themselves. But I doubt if he was really taken…

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‘Dr. Musa we will pay off your $250,000 student loans,’ By Musa Mbahi

One of the major Strengths of my Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency Program at Howard University Hospital Washington, DC was it’s proximity to many top notch Military Institution Hospitals and research Centers like United States Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; National Naval Medical Center; (Military) Veterans Affairs Haospitals etc.; Our Residency Program was able to tap into the resources of…

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Jaiz Bank: A rose that grew from concrete, By Karounwi Adini

Jaiz Bank is 10 Already! So Fast! I remember the furore over Islamic Banking/Non-Interest Banking when CBN granted the license under Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Articles upon articles on newspapers threatening fire and brimstone over an ‘Islamization agenda’. Chief Frederick Fasehun, founder of OPC before then accusing Sanusi of being devoted to Arabic and Sharia studies, launching a personal campaign for…

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