Perspectives

Celebrating Bruce Onobrakpeya at 90, By Délé Jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́

Wa Do (I greet you All) When I turned 70 in 2015, there was quite a sizeable coterie of friends, colleagues, and elders who gathered at the campuses of the University of Lagos and the Yaba College of Technology to felicitate with me. The three-day event was organized by Kunle Filani, with the Society of Nigerian Artists as a co-sponsor.…

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Nigeria is sweet, Sade, come back home! By Richard Emmanuel

Few days ago, I shared the attached photograph. But I did not tell the story behind it. I only said “things are happening in Nigeria”. I feel the need to tell the story today and the lessons I have learnt from it. Sometimes in July, Dr. Sade Akiode opened her second dental clinic in Ikeja G.R.A. Journalists were invited including…

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Capt. Owen, Nigerian Navy, and the shame of a country, By Godwin Onyeacholem

Unless government retraces its steps by acting firmly on the side of justice for citizens suffering reprisals for reporting wrongdoing or demanding accountability, Owen’s experience will not encourage anyone in the military, least of all the Nigerian Navy, to join the war against widespread corruption in the country. To say it wasn’t foreseen would be for one an absurd indulgence…

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2023: Feast of half-truths, hyperboles, spins and lies awaits, By Bamidele Johnson

Fact checkers-prejudiced or neutral-on news desks and elsewhere are certain to have a lot, perhaps too much, on their plate when political campaigns officially kick off next month. They sure are working now, as they try to winnow the truth from candidates’ rich bouquets of nonsense. But what they currently do is small beer compared to what lies ahead, as…

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May Nigeria happen to us, By Frederick Nwabufo

Is ‘’Nigeria’’ a pejorative? Is it a byword for the abominable? The name of our country has assumed grotesque meanings lately. It has been contorted by a phylum of distraught and overbearing citizens to mean misfortune, pain and suffering. Sadly, ‘’Nigeria’’ is becoming the governing synonym for turpitude and misery among some Nigerians. ‘’May Nigeria happen to you’’. This has…

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Bola Tinubu and the path of history, By Chimaroke Nnamani

Bola Tinubu, the 12th governor of Lagos State, was a co-governor with me (1999–2007). As colleagues we worked together in pioneering the first meetings of Conferences of Southern Governors which we interchanged hosting the first and second and visited Enugu for the meetings. That meeting brought to the front burner issues of Federalism both Physical and Fiscal. I still remember…

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Arise TV must rise above mediocrity, By Funke Cole

Arise TV, owned by Prince Nduka Obaigbena is fast becoming one medium that panders to mediocrity and shows signs of partisanship truly unbecoming of an organisation that prides itself as representing Africa’s finest amongst the global media. At the risk of being accused of making vacuous pontifications, a few examples would suffice here: Majority of the presenters of the station’s…

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Death is just the beginning, By Simbo Olorunfemi

Late last night, the news feed brought me a photograph by Biyi Bandele. That was quite a late feed, as he had put the photo up on Sunday. For some reason, I keyed into the photo intensely, seeking meaning, wondering what the Photographer was trying to say through it, wondering what was on his mind. So lost was I trying…

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Still on that Omatseye’s ‘Obi-tuary’

By Mohammed Adamu  Preamble They say that my erstwhile National Concord senior colleague, Sam Omatseye’s harmless titular use of the phonic pun-word ‘Obi-tuary’ was an ominous death-wish on their Labor Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.  Plus they had warned that if anything happened to Obi, Omatseye would be held responsible! And I was like: what, in Jove’s name, should we…

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Yusuf Alli: Tribute to the world’s kindest soul, By Musikilu Mojeed

My boss, friend and mentor – Alhaji Yusuf Alli – clocks 60 today. I am exceedingly happy to celebrate with this amazing human, a man whose good attributes are in the extreme. He is exceptionally kind. He is excessively humble in ways that know no boundary. He is so hardworking and committed to his craft that some of us, his…

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