Perspectives
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Ascending Odu’a Company beckoning South-west Development Commission, by Tunde Akanni PhD
From the presidency in Abuja came the news of the appointment of a nine-person board for the newly enacted Northwest Development Commission Saturday September 28, 2024. Same day, friends and associates of the immediate past Chair and Group Managing Director, GMD, of Odu’a Investment Company, Dr Segun Aina and Mr. Adewale Raji respectively, spared the entire evening to honour the…
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Between Tinubu and Marie Antoinette, by Kunle Oyatomi
In Revolutionary France of the 18th Century, Queen Marie Antoinette angered the hungry citizens when she was reported to have asked them to go for cake instead of bread. She made the suggestion in the face of a severe scarcity of loaves nationwide. It was a callous and insensitive statement, knowing full well that if the common man couldn’t access…
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FG, Tinubu and Daily Trust’s faux pas on Samoa Agreement, by Abdulaziz Abdulaziz
On Wednesday, October 2, the Daily Trust newspaper came out with the long overdue public apology to the Federal Government over its erroneous reporting of July 4, 2024, on the Samoa Agreement. It was a needful closure to a touchy controversy. It is a commendable gesture on part of the Media Trust management. It is not everyone that has the…
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Femi Falana, NNPC Refineries and Saipem, by Simbo Olorunfemi
Mr Femi Falana was on TV last night, follow-up to the letters he had, a few weeks back, written to companies he said had been awarded contracts for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Warri Refineries. His letter to Saipem reads in part: “I am Femi Falana, a Nigerian lawyer and the Chair of the Alliance on Surviving…
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The Samoa Dispute: A commendable resolution, by Bolaji Adebiyi
Daily Trust’s unreserved apology for its inaccurate report is commendable, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Eze Anaba, president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, was upbeat on Thursday when he mounted the rostrum at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Abuja, to deliver his goodwill message at the 1st News Agency of Nigeria Annual International Lecture. The theme was Insecurity in the Sahel…
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Attacks on government: urgent need to restore the goodwill, by Kola Amzat
Human memory is very short! Suddenly, Nigerians have forgotten huge contributions-financial and logistic, made by Tinubu towards the enthronement of democratic governance in the country. The former Lagos state governor was not only one of the major financiers of NADECO, he also accommodated many of the body’s top chieftains who fled abroad in a bid to escape the killer squad…
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EXPLAINER: President Tinubu’s drive for foreign direct investments, by Temitope Ajayi
In his independence anniversary broadcast on October 1st, President Bola Tinubu enumerated his administration’s efforts to drive foreign direct investments into the country. He noted that within the first 16 months of his administration, the government had attracted over $30 billion in FDI. A section of the social media and television punditry that delights in criticising any announcement from the…
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When Public/Civil Servants speak truth to power, by Prof. Tunji Olaopa
In this piece, I want to beam a critical light on the significance and role of the public/civil servant within the power dynamics of governance in the Nigerian government. My fundamental concern derives from the central imperative in public administration—the politics-administration dichotomy—that insists that the politicians and the administrators have distinct responsibilities which must be adhered to form a functional…
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64 years after, a brighter future beckons under President Tinubu, by Mohammed Idris
On this day 64 years ago, a new independent nation crystallized from the dreams and ambitions of a group of men and women driven by the vision of self-rule for the largest black country in the world. They wrote, campaigned, negotiated and agitated, until that vision became reality. And thus, on October 1, 1960, the colonial flag was lowered for…
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If I were Fubara, by Kola Amzat
The political squabble between Governor Simi Fubara of Rivers State and his well-known political benefactor, Nyesom Wike, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has lingered for unreasonable length of time. And, it’s quite saddening that all the elders of the state, including the highly revered Dr. Peter Odili, seem helpless about the ugly development, as there is no clear indication…
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