Perspectives
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Our partnership is rooted in mutual respect and shared values, by Bola Tinubu and Emmanuel Macron
In the present era, international relations are often framed as if there were only two possible outcomes for States: to dominate, or to be dominated; to vassalize, or to be vassalized. Nations are supposed to make a choice in favour of this or that hegemon, this or that bloc. The lesson we are learning from our experience as Heads of…
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One President, many spokesmen, and mixed messages amid misery, by Farooq A. Kperogi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unparalleled appointment of three official, cabinet-level spokesmen—in addition to 9 other senior media aides— symptomizes an insidious governmental malaise. It shows a government that is obsessed with public relations at the expense of public welfare, propaganda at the expense of progress, and mind management at the expense of meaningful management. On November 14, Daniel Bwala, the…
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LAGOS 2027: Between Obasa and Seyi Tinubu, by Sunday Babatunde
The race for the 2027 governorship race seems to have started earlier than expected in the Centre of Excellence, Lagos State, albeit on a very dramatic note. The presentation of Lagos State’s 2025 budget proposal on 21 November was expected to be a milestone event, but the session at the House of Assembly became a noteworthy spectacle of discord and…
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With Tinubu, a greater Nigeria possible, by Sunday Dare
The book: The Architect of Renewal: The Bola Ahmed Tinubu Story is a discourse on history as they affect contemporary issues. It is a deliberate presentation of a rich background to an era that is just beginning. It could therefore be called, history in progress—a literary contradiction that explains an immediate past which has laid a foundation for an unfolding…
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Joe Igbokwe did not disappoint, by Val Obienyem
This morning, as usual, in his bid to renew his unsolicited adulation of the Yorubas, Uncle Joe Igbokwe posted this: “Please join me to celebrate the Yoruba Nation, the most peaceful ethnic group, the safest zone, the most accommodating zone, the most educated zone, the richest, the most endowed, the huge economic zone in Nigeria.” His friends must have called…
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Nigerian Tribune at 75: Awolowo’s testament of immortality, by Prof. Tunji Olaopa
The Nigerian Tribune was established in 1949 by Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Being seventy-five years old in 2024 and hence achieving the status of Nigeria’s privately-owned newspaper in Nigeria is a testament not only to the foresight of Chief Awolowo and the managerial acumen of those who have kept its legacies afloat all these years. It is also an indictment of…
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‘Owoblow’ – The One-Man Army! By Segun Odegbami
Tribute to Dr. Felix Owolabi at 70 I don’t remember the very first time we met. It probably was on the football field, during a football match. Thinking back now, it could have been in 1977, during the epic FA Cup match that year when my team, Shooting Stars FC, played against Raccah Rovers of Kano, the team that he…
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To my Principal!! By Major GU Bukar, ADC to late COAS, General Lagbaja
Sir, I do not know where to start from, because all my thoughts are that I would in the future be writing your biography, and not epitaph. I first met you 10 years ago, on 1st of December 2014, as my Commanding Officer in 72 Special Forces Battalion. It was then that you started instilling in me the warrior ethos…
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Auspicious time Obasanjo gets concerned with life after death, by Kola Amzat
At 87+, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo remains one of the prodigiously blessed Nigerians, dead or alive. He has enjoyed manifold and mindboggling blessings in all facets in the same country he’s chosen to be continually maligned and ridiculed at every given opportunity. By sheer act of provident, he was the Nigerian Army Commander who the rebellious Biafran soldiers handed over the…
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The inevitable renewal agenda for NAHCON, by Tunde Akanni
In perfect confirmation of the Islamic perception of indecent people who lack shame and are always ready to act out their recklessness, the propagandists are again at work. They wanted to skew the information about the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, such that the leadership that is just berthing is bedeviled? In what worse manner could the immediacy and…
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