Perspectives

Love yourself, your neighbour is fine, By Odi Ikpeazu

The hatred of one’s self is a strange mental disease since the human emotion is from all indications, wired towards self love and self preservation. As a result, the apparent masochism which afflicts the Nigerian mind should be the subject of international psychiatric study or at least demand investigation by neutral expert mass psychologists. The eagerness and glee with which…

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Enough of ASUU’s garbage, By Yemi Adebowale

Last Tuesday, the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities. It declared: “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the…

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Atiku and Muslim-Muslim ticket, By Segun Ayobolu

It is instructive that the kidnappers that attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28 killing some and holding 63 others hostage and demanding a ransom of N100 million Naira for each of the victims to gain their freedom, have most disturbingly threatened to kidnap the Commander-In-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as governor Nasir el-Rufai…

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A toast to my brother at 68, By Kehinde Bamigbetan

Former Ambassador to Cuba, Senator Segun Bamigbetan Baju is 68 today. This occasion brings so many memories of growing up under his tutelage that I will have to select the most profound if this piece is not to end up as a book. My earliest recollection took me back to the room. In the one storey building that our father,…

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Wike, a governor possessed by spirit of flyovers, By Yemi Adebowale

He enjoys grandstanding and all the attention that comes with it. This man also does virtually everything to the extreme. That’s Nyesom Wike, the springy and tyrannical governor of Rivers State. Few weeks back, he gleefully announced that his government had decided to award contracts for two additional flyovers in Port Harcourt. When completed, it would be his administration’s 12th…

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What Muslim/Muslim ticket are we even talking about? By Jesutega Onokpasa

I do not know the precise religious demographics of All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s family but I know it’s a Christian/Muslim mix. Nevertheless, it is most likely to be the case that Bola Tinubu goes to bed at night in his own house and, yet, he went to bed surrounded by Christians. Needless to say,…

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NEWS ANALYSIS: CAN: Time to be apolitical 

The leadership change on Thursday, 28 July in the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) could not have come at a better time. It’s an ample opportunity for the umbrella Christian organization to effect a change in its trajectory. The new CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, took over from Samson Supo Ayokunle, who himself, came on board the association in 2016.…

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The problem with Nigerian university system, By Kayode Adebiyi

I have been doing a lot of research on why we continually have problem with university education in Nigeria. Chief of our problem is funding. Just like every other system in Nigeria, over dependence on government for everything is killing our university education. I am yet to see any country in the world with a working university system that runs…

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SDGs milestones

*N24 billion disbursed to States, 732 water facilities, 494 health facilities, 616 schools built, yet some people say Buhari is not working It’s an eternal battle between light and darkness, truth and falsehood. In fact, they are in mortal combat, and at times, there are fears that the forces of evil might prevail. But one is encouraged by the words…

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The journey of Sisi Abba, By Dare Babarinsa

Young Nigerians may not understand the enormity of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the first Premier of the defunct Western Region (now Ekiti, Edo, Delta, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo and Oyo states). The territory he superintended extended from Badagry in the West to Asaba in the East. He changed our lives. On May 9, 1987, he died. His legacy is imperishable. I…

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