Perspectives

My President, By Odi Ikpeazu

“Leadership is not making speeches or being liked. It is defined by results, not attributes.”Peter Drucker Personally I couldn’t give two jots about the religion of the one who intends to lead me, much less subscribing to the antagonisms of the two Abrahamic sects who permeate our national space. As far as I know, they are birds of the same…

Read More »

With Shettima, Tinubu has made the wisest choice, By Babagana Zulum

Earlier today, I received with the greatest joy, the announcement of my mentor, His Excellency, Senator Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate of our party, the APC and insha’Allah, the next Vice President of the Federal Republic under His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, our incoming President, Bi’iznillah. It has been my greatest wish that HE Kashim Shettima gets…

Read More »

Why Shettima is my choice to re-envision, reshape Nigeria, By Bola Tinubu

Statement by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Presidential Flag Bearer of the All Progressives Congress on his Choice of the Vice Presidential Candidate, July 10, 2022. Fellow Nigerians, we enter a moment of renewed hope. We hold the chance to move the nation and our collective cause forward as never before. Let us seize this moment so that history may write…

Read More »

Towards reforming the civil service reforms in Nigeria, By Tunji Olaopa

In my recent commentaries, I have been worried about the state of public administration in Nigeria, and how this rebounds on the reform of the public service as a tool for development. And my worry derives from the near absence of a gatekeeping mechanism that ought to undergird the professionalism behind the public-spiritedness of a public servant. For instance, it…

Read More »

Tinubu: The old tales are back, By Olatunji Oke

With his emergence as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is back on the front-burner of national discourse. It is the same old tales carefully contrived to taint the former governor of Lagos State. The sweetest part is that there is NOTHING new that anybody wants to tell us…

Read More »

The Wike problem in the PDP, By Bolaji Adebiyi

The Rivers State governor should quit wailing, rid himself of the entitlement mentality and toe his party line, writes Bolaji Adebiyi In his brilliant analysis of Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State, bitter response to both his defeat in the Peoples Democratic Party presidential primaries and the refusal of the winner, Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president of Nigeria, to pick him…

Read More »

For Mike Awoyinfa, the ‘iniquity man’ at 70, By Femi Adesina

Hahahahahaaaaaaa. I burst into an uproarious laughter as I write the headline above. What a way to celebrate your boss, mentor, an icon, and your journalistic dad at 70. Yes, Mike Awoyinfa, editor of the celebrated Weekend Concord, and pioneer Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Sun, which hit the newspaper market like a tornado in 2003 under the payoff, Nigeria’s King…

Read More »

The excellent nation Nigeria can be, By Bola Ahmed Tinubu

As we mark and celebrate Eid-el-Kabir, may we keep in remembrance the true meaning of this holiday. More importantly, let us always strive to conduct our daily lives in accordance with the clear and beneficial message of this occasion. May I use this moment of gratitude to extend my sincere greetings to Muslims in Nigeria and around the world as…

Read More »

Above all, democracy, By Segun Ayobolu

The only way for democracy to thrive, flourish and be constantly deepened in any society is for a critical mass of the population to have inculcated in them attitudes, values, beliefs and orientations that are indispensable to sustaining Abraham Lincoln’s fabled ‘government of the people, by the people and for the people’. At the heart of this representative form of…

Read More »

Ekwremandu’s UK case: It is not just about donor’s age, By Bukola Hassan

I have no idea why Nigerians think this case is about the age of the potential donor. We need to understand that the UK courts are not interested in whether the donor is a minor or is an adult. The case is about ‘organ harvesting’. Aka trying to purchase a kidney or body part from a donor. That is against…

Read More »