Perspectives
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The University of Lagos and its transformational impact, By Toyin Falola
The ideological foregrounding of the University of Lagos was heralded as a discerning response to the charted trajectories of the City of Lagos, Nigeria’s federal capital, the Lagos State, West Africa, and Africa. Tracing back through time, within which Lagos has grown, and the resounding projection of an encouraging future for the city, the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has accompanied…
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On the liborous Oshoma outburst on certain ministers collecting bribes to bring investment into the country, By Tope Fasua
Dr. Tope Fasua (SA on Economic Affairs to the President OFVP) writes: Paul Alaje has called to clarify his position that he doesn’t mean that the Tinubu govt is collecting bribes just for investments to come in. He said he meant some people may be demanding bribes and they don’t have to be govt officials. I advised him that his…
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Monday Lines: Akeredolu, death desires and 2024, By Lasisi Olagunju
The first day of the year is never a good day to write about death and dying. Rotimi Akeredolu spent the last three or four years hard-headed on the frontline. As planted in his name, Akeredolu, he was a small man who nurtured himself to bigness on life’s battlefield. He was not my friend. Apart from one media engagement where…
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FULL TEXT: President Tinubu’s New Year address to Nigerians
Dear Compatriots, It gives me immense joy to welcome each and everyone of you – young and old- to this brand new year 2024. We must lift up our hands to Almighty God, in gratitude, for his grace and benevolence to our country and our lives in the year 2023 that has just gone by. Though the past year was…
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The Great Buhaba: Toyin Falola at 71, By Professor Serges Kamga
Gathering in Dakar, Senegal, a notable group of scholars and activists decided to cumulate all the iconic names for which TF is known—Iwin, Anjonu, Yemoja, and Irunmole to just one, the Buhaba, an iconic elevation to “The Supreme of the Supreme.” Everything that TF touches turns to greatness. I affectionally call him “The Great One.” Happy birthday, Great One, our…
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A Review of Our Punch Years: Reminiscences of and insider accounts by former editors and staff of Nigeria’s most widely newspaper at 50, By Tunde Akanni
COURTESY Please, permit me to adopt the already established protocols. Most sincerely, I feel immeasurably honoured and deem it pleasurable too, undertaking this assignment. It’s a call to special service comparable only to that of an uncommon food taster who certifies delicacies fit for most distinguished guests. Here I am, officially enabled to harvest trans-generational experiences of heroes, lapping up…
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A yuletide reflection on Nigeria’s blue economy, By Omoniyi Ibietan
I was at Gordon Resort Hotel by McCarthy Beach before, during, and after Christmas, in giving expression to my annual personal retreat. For reasons connected to the global economic challenges, I had no White Christmas, but there’s so much to thank God for. So, I seized the opportunity of the tranquillity of the Ethiope River’s bank at Urhuoka, Abraka, where…
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Late Ghali Na’Abba: Salute to an avatar of democracy, By Ali M. Ali
Ghali Umar Na’Abba was a man with a protean face. Hate him or love him, no one will deny him his progressive credentials. Any wonder why when he breathed his last on Wednesday in Abuja, the nation’s political capital where he once held court as the lead lawmaker in the Green Chamber of the National Assembly, the panapoly of reactions…
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Between Aketi and Lucky, By Simbo Olorunfemi
“Interests, not ideas, dominate directly the actions of men” Max Weber Events, as have played out in Ondo State over the last few months, sobering as they are, come with lessons on different fronts – life, politics, relationships, interests, grace, fate, and possibly more. Just as you never know with life, you can never tell with politics. In the contestation…
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Has Israel forfeited her right to exist? By Femi Fani-Kayode
The genocidal monster and strange little creature that appears in a video which I posted on X boastfully proclaiming that “every single Gazan is an enemy of Israel” & that “every man, woman & child in Gaza should be killed”, proves that the Jewish state is now a nation of demonically-inspired souls that are in the grip & power of…
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