Perspectives
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Nigeria’s Civil Service Commissions, the “Katsina Declaration” and its reform implications – By Prof. Tunji Olaopa
From November 25 to 28, 2024, the Katsina State government hosted the annual conference of the National Council for Civil Service Commissions (NCCSC). This is coming on the heel of a hiatus of over ten years. This fact in itself immediately speaks to a significant issue in the ineffectiveness of the gatekeeping function of the civil service commissions in Nigeria.…
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Kemi Badenoch: Diasporan identity, ambition and reality, by Ademola Ebenezer Adewusi
“Everything flows; nothing remains. Everything moves; nothing is still. Everything passes away; nothing lasts”. Heraclitus Kemi is a politician. Kemi was born to Nigerian parents. Kemi is British by birth. Most importantly, Kemi is in pole position to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. That is her diasporan identity; complex, fluid and instrumentalist. Kemi will do and say…
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Culture shift and Portable’s rise to stardom, by Aderemi Ogunpitan
Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, epitomizes the contradictions of modern Nigerian society—a blend of raw talent, chaos, ambition, and controversy. His rise to fame reflects the power of social media as an equalizer and disruptor of traditional values. Portable bypassed established pathways to success, leveraging platforms like Instagram and TikTok to explode into the mainstream with his viral hit…
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For Buhari, Ore Mekunu (Friend of the poor) at 82 – By Femi Adesina
This will stick in memory for life. It was March, 2020. The whole world was at the edge. A pandemic was on the prowl, and the auguries were not good. The Spanish flu of 1918 to 1920 killed between 25 and 50 million people worldwide. COVID 19 was going to mow down hundreds of millions, with Africa and Nigeria particularly…
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Kemi Badenoch, freedom, Yorùbá and the African Century, by Ademola Akintoye
At 44, Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch has come to know something that even those who qualify to be her grandfathers, and those who went before them, have not, and had not known. Is there anything but commendation and praise that is to be heaped on someone like that? Must the indigenous peoples trapped in the vicious downward spiral of hatreds,…
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No longer innocent until proven otherwise… By Bolanle Bolawole
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the (once-upon-a-time) immovable pillars of our justice system is that a man is presumed innocent until otherwise proven. The man so accused is therefore allowed all his rights…
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Kemi Badenoch simply nudging Nigerian leaders, by Yemi Adebowale
Leader of United Kingdom’s opposition Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, who is of Nigerian ancestry, is unhappy with the state of her country of descent, so much so that she does not want to be associated with the country called Nigeria. Born Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke in Wimbledon, this member of the British Parliament, who spent part of her childhood in Lagos,…
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Satanic leadership and Nigeria’s boiling point – Open letter to former President Olusegun Obasanjo
By Salihu Moh. Lukman Your Excellency, I am inspired to write this open letter to you after reading the newspaper report about an interactive session you featured on Sunday, December 8, 2024, which was tagged ‘Boiling Point Arena’. The newspaper report quoted you to have said that ‘leader made by Satan is bound to fail, while God’s chosen one will…
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The miseducation of Kemi Badenoch and a call for better appreciation of our motherland – By Tope Fasua
The very ambitious but miseducated Kemi Badenoch, leader of the UK Conservative (Tory) Party, is in the news. It is indeed a fitting moment to make an intervention which will clear the hoopla and set many a mind straight, based strictly on facts and history. Kemi had been in the business of slagging off Nigeria ever since she started to…
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What if Farotimi’s allegations are not false? By Tonnie Iredia
According to Section 39 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999,”every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference.” To underscore the importance of this right, the constitution further expands the empowerment beyond private discussions by recognizing the use of the media…
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