Perspectives

Fi’jó gba’dé: Dance as political strategy, By Simbo Olorunfemi

I didn’t start paying attention to the campaign in Osun until the final weeks before the election. My interest, as always, was on strategy and communications, trying to find out what was motivating who, what the strategy was and how it was being executed. Again, I was fascinated by Alàgbà Jackson, wanting to know how he was handling his obvious…

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The triumph of politics, By Bolaji Adebiyi

Asked for his reaction to the loss of his party, at the just concluded gubernatorial contest in Osun State, Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, feigned ignorance of the result of an election that had been officially announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the wee hours of the day. “INEC is yet to inform…

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Osun: Buhari does it again

Let me start with some clarifications. I’m from Osun State, and my homestead is Ipetumodu, in Ife North Local Government Area. And I am not Osun in Diaspora. I was born in Osogbo, capital of the State, when my father was Principal of St Charles Grammar School in the 1960s. When he retired home, after moving from Osogbo to Notre…

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BBC Yoruba and the limits of media propaganda, By Ismail Omipidan

As a trained journalist, I hardly take on colleagues who genuinely make mistakes in the course of discharging their responsibilities. But when the mistake is repeated more than twice, it means a pattern is emerging and the earlier one deals with such a matter the better for the reading public. As a human being, and a member of the Nigerian…

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OPINION: Babachir Lawal’s gale of inflammatory pronouncements, By Kola Amzat

Babachir Lawal is relatively an unknown stock to the generality of Nigerian people before his ascendance to the office of Secretary to the Federation in 2015. Even after his emergence as the SGF, his visibility in the political sphere was still shrouded, until his involvement in that grass cutting scandal of about #258 million that dominated the public sphere like…

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CAN and its cassock, By Kunle Awosiyan

Some pastors visited my facebook wall yesterday to protest against my post on Christian Clerics who attended the unveiling of Senator Kashim Shettima, the running mate of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. What they saw was the clerics’ manner of dressing and straight away they condemned the men and women in the pictures. ‘They are fake, they are…

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Babachir Lawal’s baseless vituperations on Muslim-Muslim ticket, By Ayodele Olu Peters

When in the course of pursuing his aspiration for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited delegates in Abeokuta and addressed them in Yoruba, Mr Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary of Government of the Federation, was one of those who issued a statement brimming with vitriol and highly combustible against Tinubu. The former…

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Elections are not magic shows, By Kashim Shettima

My first duty, is to first of all acknowledge the position that His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari occupies, in the remarkable history of our great party, the APC; as well as the role he has played, in the history of our dear country, Nigeria. Secondly, I must also firmly underscore the remarkable political journey of our leader, His Excellency, Asiwaju…

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Why Eleyi of Ogun State should interest you, By Bamidele Johnson

“Eleyi a lo, lau/O gbe’na ka’ri, lau/O w’ewu eje, lau.” For non-Yoruba speakers, this short ditty is sung among my people for those who merit expulsion from their positions. It conveys utter rejection of the retention of an exalted position by people who have been sub-par in such positions or have desecrated them. It simply means such people must leave.…

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We’re all potential refugees, By Babatunde Fashola

When my friend and brother, Jimi Olusola, asked me to be the speaker at this event, I had no hesitation in accepting, because he indicated that it was Papa’s 10th memorial. Although I was unaware that it was World Refugee Day and neither was I aware at the time that a book was to be presented, my mind was already…

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