Perspectives
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A nation in need of peace builders, By Simon Kolawole
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, prominent Igbo politician and businessman, was in the news last week for his comments on the Yoruba-Igbo face-off in Lagos. Speaking at the first anniversary of Prof Chukwuma Soludo’s governorship of Anambra state, he appeared to be pursuing a reproachment between the two largest ethnic groups in southern Nigeria. But he started with a tough tone, saying:…
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Ogun governorship election: OGD hiding behind the needle, By Tunde Salako
Since the presidential and governorship elections, the media has been inundated by reports of organized protests by the opposition parties and their candidates calling for the cancellation of results of the polls that have been adjudged to be free, fair, and credible. In point of fact, at no time in our recent past had the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
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Death of lies and time to heal the “Obidients”, By Kunle Awosiyan
It is always difficult to nurse a lie to adult, it will produce a deformed truth. This is not the time for the fans of the All Progressives Congress to gloat over their victory but the time to help the losers who had bet their lives on winning the presidential election. When you sponsored lies to demarket your opponents and…
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2023 elections and a memo to the Yorubas, By Tope Fasua
These peculiar times send us all back home to reexamine our Nigerian-hood and even go further. We knew, and I warned, that the 2023 elections would have consequences for relationships especially as it took on a tribal and religious coloration from get-go. Politicians did what they had to do to win elections – including the Muslim-Muslim ticket (which could at…
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A false sense of victimisation: a response to Olumide Akpata, By Rotimi Adeyeye
These are all rhetorics to justify painting pot calling kettle black. In Anambra State, where the same election took place the same day, We saw video clips of IPOB unknown gunmen killing their own Ibo people for the election, yet LP won just 8 seats, and APGA won 17. In such case, there was no “voter suppression, right”? In Anambra…
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The silly bill seeking to legalise cannabis, By Yemi Adebowale
For three members of the House of Representatives – Benjamin Kalu representing Bende, Olumide Osoba representing Abeokuta North and Miriam Onuoha of Okigwe North – All they have to offer Nigerians in appreciation of the over N9 million they each take home monthly, are bills seeking to legalise the cultivation, sale and recreational use of Cannabis (Marijuana). They talk about…
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On the brink of treason, By Segun Ayobolu
It was certainly bound to come to this. I refer to this week’s press statement by the Department of State Security (DSS) warning those engaged in any agenda to truncate the country’s ongoing democratic process to desist from their plans or face the full wrath of the law. While it is better late than never, the security agencies ought to…
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Appreciation in defeat, By Ademola Adebisi
It is no longer news that Dr. Obawale Adebisi lost the contest for a seat in the House of representatives. Despite the fact that he got a loss, I should like to thank all those that stood by him during the contest. As Frank A. Clark rightly said, “if a fellow is not thankful for what he has got” or…
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Oil in Nasarawa: Buhari does it again
First it was at Kolmani, in Bauchi/Gombe States, and now President Muhammadu Buhari has struck again. In a region some people have said was fated never to produce even a cup of oil, the second exploration exercise was flagged off this week. The spud-in ceremony of the Ebenyi-A, Middle Benue Trough, was conducted virtually on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, pedestaling…
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Interim contraption, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Last Tuesday, the Department of State Services issued an alert that some citizens with entrenched interests were plotting to foist an interim government on the country. “The plot being pursued by these entrenched interests is not only an aberration but [also] a mischievous way to set aside the constitution and undermine civil rule as well as plunge the country into crisis,” Peter Afunaya, the secret…
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