Perspectives

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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Russia’s new world order is bad news for Africa, By Tafi Mhaka

Rather than following the lead of despots like Putin and Xi, Africa should chart its own path. On March 30, just a day after a Russian missile hit an administrative building in the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, killing at least 12 people, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the case for the establishment of new world order.…

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PDP: Politics of survival and bad manners, By Chidi Amuta

Nigeria’s troubled main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has scored a pre-election own goal. It has forced its presidential aspirants to retreat into factional enclaves. These are roughly: the Northern, Gubernatorial and Igbo formations. How to engineer a consensus out of these conflicting interests has become the defining burden of a party that has neither federal incumbency nor the quantum…

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Igbo must present a consensus presidential candidate, By Doyin Okupe

Many Nigerians including my humble self are sold on the idea that the Presidency of Nigeria be zoned to the south east in 2023. For the political leadership in Eastern Nigeria, the fact that there are two major political parties in Nigeria must pose a problem for the leadership. Making it rather difficult to come out and prevail on the…

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My commitment to Tinubu is total, By Bayo Onanuga

My attention has been drawn to some lies being circulated about me as having jumped the Bola Ahmed Tinubu train and being against his presidential ambition. The faceless writer, I guess a hatchet hand wrote: Almost all members of the Tinubu original power/intellectual base and allies when he was Governor are not in support of his Presidential ambition. Aregbesola, Afikuyomi,…

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How Boye Oshinaga’s Gradely App is transforming education in Nigeria, By Charissa Cassels

Boye Oshinaga, Founder and CEO of Gradely, believes that now is a perfect time to start your own business in Africa. “There’s so much in just starting. You don’t know your journey, it may be two months like mine to build the minimum viable product – or it could be two years – but it doesn’t matter.” “We are playing…

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PYO’s declaration, By Segun Ayobolu

At last, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), this week, formally announced, via a recorded video shared on social media, his aspiration to contest the 2023 presidential election in a bid to succeed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari. This move has been much speculated and anticipated despite the good professor’s hitherto public reticence on the matter. Numerous individuals and…

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Kola Abiola got it all wrong on Tinubu, By Tony Nyiam

Let me begin by saying this: guided by good conscience, and intuition-led reasoning which proceeds therefrom, I will begin with this warning: no matter the temptation we are being tempted with, let no one be as ungrateful to another who sacrificed almost his existential life to work for the persons directly or his immediate family as Chief Kola Abiola has…

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Leading Nigeria and why experience matters, By Folabi Ogunleye

ONE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION influencing my preference for a better established and cerebral personality [as opposed to a relatively inexperienced or less-established candidate] to govern the affairs of our widely diverse and hyperactive political terrain of 200 million-plus Nigerians has to do with our widely acknowledged impatience and general lack of regard for anyone who we do not know or see…

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Bola Tinubu’s worthy example, By Kofoworola Ogunnaike

I looked forward to the 13th Colloquium in celebration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s landmark 70th birthday as I did not have the opportunity to attend previous ones. This year’s celebration is far from ordinary. I knew it will be louder than anyone he’s ever held because of the fever his declaration of interest in the presidency of Nigeria will bring…

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