Perspectives
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Warning shots from Kigali
On the sidelines of the 26th edition of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) holding in Kigali, Rwanda, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team Thursday morning visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which is one of the monuments in memory of about a million people that were killed in the 1994 pogrom. The Hutus had in 100 days of rage and…
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The Sino-American parley: An eye-opener for Nigeria, By Bola Ahmed Tinubu
“We have been here a week. This was the week that changed the world.” The above quotation were the words of President Richard Nixon in his toast at the concluding banquet on February 27 1972 during his state visit to China. Some might have said his comment was an overstatement, but the event truly changed the course of history of…
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JKF: No longer ‘the apprentice’, By Olawale Olaleye
Last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, has stoked some interrogations on the political artery of the state, with ideology at the centre of it all. There’s also been interesting reports and opinions about the fact that the feat of Saturday had broken 23 years succession jinx in the state. But a few people have equally been stifled by the…
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Not everything about Tinubu is money, By Kunle Awosiyan
If you think Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s emergence as the presidential standard bearer of the APC has come with money, you are very far from the truth. Of course, money is a critical factor on this journey, BAT is living more on his goodwill than throwing money around as some of his haters are alleging. I once visited an office at…
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Politics, religion and 2023, By Segun Ayobolu
It is only natural that identity issues featuring such factors as ethnicity, religion, culture and region will always be key determinant influences in the politics of a complex, plural polity like Nigeria. Thus, the extant constitutions of the First, Second, and Third Republics and now this Fourth Republic have always had provisions requiring that the composition of governments at various…
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Why is the price of cement so high in Africa? By Tristan Reed
The prices of several goods, including intermediate inputs such as cement, steel reinforcement bars, urea fertilizer, and broadband internet, are higher on average in the world’s poorest countries, including many in Africa. This is important for two main reasons: higher prices for intermediate goods can slow economic growth; and this evidence runs counter to the general tendency for prices to…
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Buhari’s footprints
We are winding down. In about 11 months, the Muhammadu Buhari administration will be done. So we are ticking off the days. Right is the Good Book when it says “for here we have no continuing city, but we seek one that is to come.” Even if the tenure is 20 years, it will still end. We must all live…
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On Peter Obi’s supposed ‘stinginess’, By Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu
Sometime in 2009, ‘Mr’(as he preferred to be addressed) Peter Obi, Governor Of Anambra State at the time, visited Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and myself at Dallas, Texas. He came to deliver a get well message from Dr Goodluck Jonathan and was billed to attend a black tie event at the Dallas Marriot. Curiously, he flew into Dallas airport with…
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Okowa will help propel us to victory, By Atiku Abubakar
Let me begin by, once more, commending our great Party for organizing and concluding, arguably, the best and rancour-free Convention, which produced me as our flag-bearer for the next year’s Presidential Election. Once more, I commend my fellow aspirants in that contest. I thank them for their sportsmanship. They put up spirited fights because they cared and care for our…
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Muslim-Muslim bugaboo and PDP propaganda, By Bayo Onanuga
Once again the Papa Deceiving Pikin party is on to its favourite game, spreading fears and alarms as it speculates and agonises, along with its hatchet writers over the religion of the running mate of the presidential candidate of the APC. The scaremongering campaign began on the convention ground at Eagle Square last week as delegates voted and the ground…
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