Perspectives
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Between Aregbesola and devil, By Ademola Adebisi
It is not a surprise that the former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Raufu Aregbesola, returned to his home state of Osun after serving as a Minister amidst pomp and pageantry. He has always been hail-fellow-well-met politician. Unlike the former Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo who returned home quietly last week, drums beat for the gregarious politician. As Aregbesola returned…
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Powers behind the throne: Era of ‘go and see Rauf’ appears gone! By Ismail Omipidan
In every corridor of power around the globe, there are people who call the shots. Some are seen. Others are invisible. But you hear and see their exploits. They are real. They wield enormous powers such that the real occupier of the office, on behalf of whom the powers are wielded, most times, defers to them and relies on them…
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Cutting your nose, By Odi Ikpeazu
There is a stretch of road in Onitsha that I could hardly avoid, even if I wanted to. It leads to my nine year old granddaughter’s school. Unless I absolutely cannot, I endeavour to drive her to and from school. Those short journeys enable me spend some of the most precious moments of my life, chatting with her, bantering, reasoning,…
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When preparation meets leadership, Tinubu happens, By Fredrick Nwabufo
The past one week has been one of the most momentous in the life of the nation. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu dared the undared, and triumphed. He passed a knotty test of leadership. The first of its kind. Under a haze of threats of strike by labour unions over the abrogation of petrol subsidy, President Tinubu showed peerless leadership, preparation,…
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Happy birthday, Uncle Jim, By Simbo Olorunfemi
Exactly a year ago, Uncle Jim, as we call him, Jimi Odumosu as he is officially and professionally known, turned 70. I didn’t get to know about it until late in the night, and it was rather too late to string words together to celebrate this legend. I would promise myself to do that in the future before his next…
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Stories that Dokpesi told, By Mahmud Jega
When I heard the news last Monday of the passing of Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, I remembered an occasion in 1996 when he paid a courtesy call at the New Nigerian Newspapers’ head office in Kaduna. I was Deputy Editor of New Nigerian then and our managing director, Dr. Abubakar Rasheed, received him. Dokpesi was then best known as the proprietor…
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TB Joshua: Remembering exit of a world changer
By Dare Adejumo The month of June is a significant month in the anal of Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN). It is the birth and passing of its founder, Prophet TB Joshua that great world changer. Its fifth day makes the second year of his glorious exit from earth and on the twelfth, the great man of God who…
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OPINION: Fuel subsidy removal; key success factor for Tinubu administration, by Kola Amzat
Contained in the 2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) of the immediate past administration of President Buhari is N3.3 trillion proposed to be committed on petroleum subsidy between January and June 2023. Meanwhile, it’s already in the public domain that the immediate past regime expended a whopping N11 trillion on subsidy from 2015 to May 2023 when it exited. Instructively,…
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Learning from our failed prophecies, By Victor Adeyemi
I am very curious about the future and so are most human beings. My first expression of this interest was to read daily horoscope columns in newspapers as a child. I remember our dad taking it further by occasionally buying whole published books covering his star for the year. I later got to understand he had patronized a UK based…
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Disobedient by nature? By Odi Ikpeazu
I think some of us probably have a natural aversion to running with the crowd. One reason is that you will not be able to see your way clear for the stampede. And man, how noisy they can get. Plus, I am sympathetic to the theory that the larger a crowd, the lesser its collective IQ. That being the case,…
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