Perspectives
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Tinubu’s 2023 presidency sparkles, By Kassim Afegbua
I have become very familiar with Nigerian politics to the point that nothing, in this era of a divided Nigeria, excites me anymore. But the emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the APC’s primary last week excites me with perfunctory relish. My excitement resonated from two dialectically opposing standpoints. He was not the candidate of the president. He was the…
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TRIBUTE: Olufemi Soyinka, a globally certified Dermatologist, Venereologist and Allergologist, By Omoniyi Ibietan
The immediate younger brother of Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Femi Soyinka, passed yesterday at his residence in Ibadan. He was a father, grandfather and great grandfather. Importantly, he was a physician, scholar and a very resolute, but unlike his brother, a silent social and particularly health rights activist. I have fond memories of the late Professor as I recall his…
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Buhari’s laudatory role in the APC primary, By Garba Shehu
When it is election season we all expect speculation to reach fever-pitch. The press pores over every word spoken, scours every photo taken, and reports every indication suggested, seeking signs of who is supporting who like private investigators – or fiction writers. There’s no greater intrigue for this kind of speculation-journalism than a party flagbearer primary. But it only comes…
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Owo massacre: Forensics, investigation, prosecution & adjudication, By Adeniji Kazeem
Background On 5th June 2022 Nigerian’s woke up to learn of a dastardly attack by yet to be identified gunmen on Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Owo, in Ondo State killing and wounding several people. The gunmen allegedly came with automatic rifles and explosives with which they launched an unprovoked attack on worshipers. Till date the security agencies have made no…
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X-raying the policy options before Atiku, Tinubu and Peter Obi, By Babatunde Akin-Moses
What do you think would be the policy focus of the leading Presidential candidates? Based on their strengths, time in office, publicly available documents and utterances, here are my thoughts: Atiku – Atiku’s disposition suggests that he would primarily focus on a private sector driven economy. Such an administration would most likely bring about more privatization and liberalization. If we…
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June 12 and I: Setting the records straight, By Doyin Okupe
Yesterday some ignorant young men tried to disparage me by classifying me as one of those who promoted or sided with the perpetrators of June 12. This to me was an exceptionally sad development and evil rhetorics against my person, honour and integrity. The facts: I was not the National Publicity Secretary of the NRC at the time of June…
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A Muslim running mate to Tinubu, By Femi Onibonoje
Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from the Southwest and the APC presidential candidate is yet to choose his running mate. In recent elections, Nigerians have always made religion and ethnicity major issues in the presidential contests. Sadly so, but the issues have always come from religious suspicion and identity politics. There is a present agitation by the Christian community…
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The imperative of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for APC, By Abdussamad Umar Jibia
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is no doubt a party that brings together some of the most outstanding politicians in Nigeria. However, what makes the APC most attractive is the fact that it is in power. It seized this power from the PDP, a party that ruled Nigeria for 16 years and adjudged to be a failure by majority of…
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Ebun Adegboruwa’s juvenile hysteria and emotionalism, By Ayo Oluwole Peters
Were he not well recognized as a lawyer of repute and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to boot, one would have been forgiven for ascribing a personally signed press statement this week by Mr Ebun Olu Adegboruwa to the theatrical antics of an ignorant and deliberately mischievous mind. In his statement, Adegboruwa accused Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State…
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ECOWAS in a cul de sac with military juntas in West Africa, By Paul Ejime
ECOWAS, from the tune of the Communique of its latest extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana on 4th June 2022, on the political situations in three member states under military rule, would appear to have run out of ideas on how to restore constitutional order in the affected countries – Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso. The pattern has become predictable. Soldiers…
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