Perspectives
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Oshiomhole @ 70: The untold stories, By Louis Odion
“Yes, next?”“Sir, the next person on the list,” continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily “is the widow you met sometime ago while on project inspection and you said we should include her name among those to be paid monthly from the money you gave us to maintain the house in Iyahmo.” The circumstances of…
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Perhaps closed files should remain just that – closed, By Wole Soyinka
Barely three months have passed since the twentieth anniversary of the murder of the late Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, an occasion that I utilized to remind President Mohammed Buhari, of a subsisting election pledge. That pledge was to re-open the files on the spate of unsolved political assassinations that had plagued the nation in recent decades. Prominent…
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Buhari is flippant about taming terrorists, By Yemi Adebowale
When terrorists strike and there are no consequences, they are emboldened. This is exactly what has been happening in almost seven years of the Buhari government in Nigeria. Six days after terrorists bombed a train heading to Kaduna from Abuja, killing eight people; injuring and abducting many, not even one of the bastards has been apprehended. The terrorists operated for…
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APC, PDP and Nigeria’s free fall, By Segun Ayobolu
Except for anyone living in a veritable fool’s paradise, the stark truth is that Nigeria today is in free fall. The existential conditions of millions of Nigerians are horrendous. The country stands at the very precipice of disaster threatening to implode at anytime with an amazingly distracted political class inexplicably incapacitated to do anything about it. This is certainly not…
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Obiano and the possibility of a new job, By Dare Babarinsa
It was a good thing that Willie Obiano, the former governor of Anambra State, had his baptism of fire early. Obiano was on his way to the United States for a well-deserved holiday when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) accosted him at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, and asked him to step aside. After a…
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No road, airway, railway to Kaduna, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Recent terror attacks close all routes to Kaduna, writes Bolaji Adebiyi It takes personal restraint and courage not to be cynical about the mass graveyard that Nigeria has become under the watch of Muhammadu Buhari. Carried into power at the fourth try on the back of a general disenchantment with the security situation in the country, Nigerians looked forward to…
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They hate God, they loathe humanity
Haters of God and humanity struck on Monday, bombing the Abuja-Kaduna train. They then proceeded to open fire on passengers of the immobilized coaches. It was premeditated murder from the very bottom of hell. See the toll of the carnage. Promising lives, cut short. Destinies terminated. Hopes and plans, ruptured. People who committed no sin, no crime, except that they…
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We must restore legal profession’s cherished nobility and glory, By Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN
PROLOGUE Today is another day the Lord has made, and we rejoice in it. My stepping in as the 50th Chairman of the Body of Benchers this day is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in my eyes. Today marks the first time in the illustrious history of the august Body of Benchers that both the incoming Chairman, as…
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Making the beautiful game ugly, By Odi Ikpeazu
Nigeria is out of the race for the Qatar World Cup. If you didn’t know already, you will probably get the picture if you visit the vandalized Abiola Stadium, venue of the match. By the way, where did the mob get the notion that Nigeria has a divine right to defeat Ghana? That notwithstanding though, one can easily discern that…
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Verdict on Electoral Act: The rule of Malami again, By Yemi Adebowale
The actions and inactions of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, no longer shock me. I had long given up on him because of his unending shenanigans. This country has never had it so bad with an AGF, who persistently allows his personal interest to overshadow his job. The Rule of Law in…
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