Perspectives
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Inside tycoon Mike Adenuga’s 20-year Glo brand, By Funsho Arogundade
If there is any man who has successfully proven that innovation and hard work need to co-exist for business growth and leadership, that man is Dr. Mike Agbolade Adenuga Jnr. The multi-billionaire tycoon is a man known for perfection, peerless noble qualities and enchanting endowment, a winning combination he brings to bear in the running of his forever flourishing business…
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I challenge Wike on police impunity, By Owei Lakemfa
Government officials and security agencies are seizing parks and green areas and building on them. Minister Nyesom Wike, if you are to be taken serious, let me throw a public challenge: the Nigeria Police Force has just seized the beautiful Berger Junction/Wuse Zone 6 public park and commenced massive construction. Can you check this rape of the environment by sending…
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Mathematical Olusegun Patrick Odegbami at 71, By Maxim Uzoatu
Nigeria hardly ever celebrates her heroes. I am writing now to celebrate an evergreen Nigerian hero – Patrick Olusegun Odegbami, alias Mathematical, on his 71st birthday. When Nigeria won the coveted African Cup of Nations on home soil in Lagos in 1980 Segun Odegbami gave multitudes of Nigerian ball fans paroxysms of joy by scoring two of the goals in…
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Aregbesola and his macabre dance, By Kola Amzat
Ordinarily, the ex-governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola presently supposed to be in charge and full control of some key segments in Aso Villa, collaborating with the president to run the affairs of the country. But this phase seems dead, as the center could no longer hold between him and the iconic & illustrious ex-Lagos state governor, President Bola Ahmed…
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Federal Civil Service Commission and illegal recruitment into the service, By Tijjani Mohammad
A core mandate of the Civil Service Commission, as an agency of Government, is the recruitment and deployment of officers with requisite qualifications into the civil service. A major plank on which the commission seeks to realize its vision of building a core of highly focused, disciplined, committed and patriotic civil service is the advertisement of vacancies for the ultimate…
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Tinubu’s useful northern idiots, By Nasir Aminu
To be clear, the term useful idiot is not an insult. It is the term used to describe political puppets. It is regarded as a Machiavellian technique, a calculated move to use others as tools for personal or political advantage without regard for their autonomy or awareness. The notion that Tinubu is a master political strategist can be confirmed by…
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Ministers: Surpassing the momentum, By Kola Amzat
Since his inauguration into Nigeria topmost office on May 29, 2023, President Bola Tinubu has never left anyone in doubt that governance has transmuted into a new realm of urgency, purposefulness, resourcefulness, selflessness, probity, and accountability. Reminiscent of Jesus Christ in Matthew 15:29-30 who came nigh unto the Sea of Galilee and went up into a mountain where the great…
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Book review: Cyber politics – Social media, social demography and voting behaviour in Nigeria, By Azu Ishiekwene
My job today is to review the book, and not the man. But since the man made the book, I would, to slightly paraphrase Oscar Wilde, overcome by yielding to the temptation of reviewing the man. In case you didn’t know the meaning of the “P” as it appears in the middle of the author’s name on the cover of…
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Why you must not change your values, By Tony Elumelu
Yesterday, I spoke to a group of brilliant teens at the THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD TEAP Zone Teens Career Conference 2023. I told my story as Tony Elumelu, the business man and the father. I have learnt a lot of life lessons on this journey, and I shared with the teens – hoping to inspire them as they…
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A Biblical perspective on marine and blue economy, By Temitope Ajayi
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.” Psalm 107:23-24 KJV “Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee.” Isaiah 60:5 The…
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