Perspectives
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US policy experts and obsession with Nigeria’s collapse, By Garba Shehu
In 2005, a US National Intelligence Council paper “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” floated the idea there could be a military coup in Nigeria. At the time this was hardly an earth-shattering prediction: 2005 was only six years after the return of civilian democratic rule and just over a decade since the Abacha military coup of 1993 – the final of…
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The future of higher education, Seun Awogbenle
Nigeria is a country of many contradictions, almost everywhere you turn, there is something that just does not add up. For a long time, it is this illogic that has underpinned our policies and national life. What is however confounding is that, even when there is a consensus on what is expectedly the way forward, there is either a lack…
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For dancers messing with Oyetola’s elephant, By Funke Egbemode
The elephant is passing, their farmer snaps his fingers, has anybody’s father ever killed an elephant with hoes? Ask them as they dance and boast if they would fight the mountains of Adegboyega Oyetola with cutlasses and hoes on July 16. Do they even know this Oyetola? Have you met Mr Adegboyega Oyetola? Have you spent some length of time…
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CHOGM22 and Rwanda’s commitment to shared prosperity, By Maureen Chukwura
Rwanda will, in June 2022, host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM22) in its 26th edition. The bi-annual meeting provides a platform for leaders of the 54 member states to explore how they could pool their resources and innovations to transform joint challenges into exalting opportunities. The event officially opens on the 24th of June in Kigali after two…
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From 7 to 70: Why are they not talking about this?
Last week on this platform, focus was on the fact that adversaries of the Muhammadu Buhari administration were hiding behind the smokescreen of insecurity to vent their spleen. We stressed that security was everything, and noted that while robustly confronting the monster of insecurity, President Buhari was equally taking giant strides on many other fronts, which the caterwauling crowd deliberately…
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Osinbajo and his seven cardinal sins, By Tope Fasua
He is sleek, debonair, smart, articulate, cerebral… a natural choice for the next president of Nigeria – if not that his duo with Mr Muhammadu Buhari have totally ruined the economy and indeed the society. But asides from that, he has committed seven cardinal sins that only God can forgive him for. I cannot for I am not God. Any…
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JJ Okocha: a gift from the heavens, By Odi Ikpeazu
It is not usually in my habit to publicly wax lyrical about people, lest my motive be misconstrued. However in selected cases, I would do so despite standing at the risk of being accused of that act, which I genuinely dislike – being a praise singer. I would take that risk for Kwame Nkrumah. I would take it for Pelé.…
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2023 elections: the Peter principle and limits of sentiments, By Yemi Adewoyin
Politics is a business, and in business, you don’t dwell (too much) on emotions and sentiments to succeed. If political parties make their decisions based entirely on how loud some arguments (emotional, sentimental and sometimes illogical) on the social media are, then we may as well go sit down and wait for Prof Yemi Osinbajo or Mr Peter Obi to…
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2023: Osinbajo’s problematic ambition, By Gbenga Adefulu
After several months of speculations and seemingly unending denials by his spokesperson, Laolu Akande, Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo on Monday, April 11, finally declared his intention to contest for the office of the president in 2023. The months-long delay, according to very reliable sources was ostensibly due to his repeated failure to secure Buhari’s anointing as the preferred or consensus…
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Kukah’s virus of hate, By Garba Shehu
As the nomination congress approaches, rumblings within the party rise to an acrimonious crescendo and the troubleshooting market blossoming in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is in desperate yearning for his tested skills, we are surprised- so too are many others- that the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, could still find the time for…
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