Perspectives
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Lagos-Calabar coastal road: Leave the talk, let’s face the business, by Dada Olusegun
The Lagos-Calabar coastal road project is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most ambitious transport infrastructure project since independence. In terms of scope, distance covered, and connectivity, not even the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos, the 2nd Niger Bridge in Onitsha/Asaba, or the Abuja-Kano expressway comes close. It is simply a world-class iconic project. Before I go further, I want us to take a…
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Power Minister Adelabu: How not to communicate, by Tonnie Iredia
Nigerians are visibly facing hard times following reforms in critical sectors involving petroleum, power and foreign exchange issues. President Bola, Tinubu, the First Lady, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu and to a large extent, Vice President Kashim Shettima have quickly learnt how to show empathy to the suffering masses. They say they fully appreciate the gravity of the impact of the reforms…
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The PDP mid-life crisis: An abstract! By Olawale Olaleye
For many and as with institutions, the time to start the journey of self-discovery and perhaps personal growth usually comes after a later-life crisis. It is the stage people reconcile their reality with their fears for a reassessment of what is possible and important in their lives. From state to state, the challenges of leadership that the PDP faces are…
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Who has bewitched our beloved America? By Femi Fani-Kayode
I really do wonder whether those great patriots that fought a long and bloody war against British colonial rule and founded the United States of America in 1776 like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and so many others envisaged what has happened to their beloved country today? I wonder whether the Pilgrim Fathers and great and wise…
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Africa and the imperative of South Korea’s development model, by Tunde Rahman
To say the economy of the Republic of South Korea is a developed and strong economy is to say the obvious. South Korea’s economy had been vastly developed, and its economic structure radically transformed since after World War II in 1945 and the Korean War in 1953. The Korean War was a war of attrition between two brother-nations – North…
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A Landmark of problems, by Chris Adetayo
I sympathize with the guys at Landmark. I know how that area looked in 2009. We were scouting for a venue to host a major event and met their representative. At the time, the area was virtually empty, devoid of structure and form. It took serious money to get it to become what it is today. However, I disagree with…
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Khalil/NASENI and the take from the Tinubu trip, by Bala Ibrahim
It is no longer news that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is out of the country. He left the shores of Nigeria since last week, on an official assignment to some countries, prominent among which is the Kingdom of the Netherlands, where he had a one-day engagement at the invitation of King Willem-Alexander. The Nigerian delegation was made up of eminent…
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Labour’s rising restlessness over minimum wage, by Bolaji Adebiyi
The warning by organised labour on Wednesday over the new minimum wage could not have come as a surprise to keen watchers of Nigeria’s industrial relations. “The NLC and the TUC have made it clear, and emphatically, that should the minimum wage negotiation continue and linger till the end of May, we can no longer guarantee industrial harmony in this country,” Joe Ajaero, the president…
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The billionaire Police commissioner, by Olusegun Adeniyi
Mr Aderemi Adeoye retired yesterday as the Commissioner of Police (CP) in Anambra State. By his own admission, his net worth is now N20 billion! And he has set his eyes on displacing Alhaji Aliko Dangote as the richest man in Africa within the next ten years. I am also quoting him. “I have been privileged to be trained in…
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National Assembly Committee on Constitution Review – a journey to nowhere, by Ladipo Adamolekun
The 1999 Constitution… is neither the product of plebiscite, referendum, nor a national conference. It was bequeathed to us in 1999 by the departing military, and promulgated into law by military fiat. The result has been a litany of contradictions, omissions and inconsistencies…” – Former Senate President, David Mark, in Vanguard, November 20th 2008 IN my commentary, “JCCR’s Journey to…
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