Perspectives
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Advantage of disadvantage, By Ray Ekpu
Any person who is a lover of books must endeavour to read a book titled: “David and Goliath” authored by Malcolm Gladwell, the famous author of Tipping Point. David and Goliath is a practical yet philosophical exploration of the Advantage of Disadvantage as well as the Disadvantage of Advantage. I want to contextualise the recent presidential election bearing this philosophy…
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The week after, By Olatunji Dare
The last installment of this column appeared on this page the day before the Independent National Electoral Commission announced the definitive outcome of the presidential election. In the week leading to the poll, the internet bristled with rumours, the content of which ranged from the apocalyptic to the farcical. You could dismiss more than 95 percent of them with a…
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Rigging claims don’t add up, By Mahmud Jega
A member of the British House of Lords, when told that money is difficult to come by these days, said he is nearly 90 years old but cannot remember any time in the past when money was easy to get. I have been watching Nigerian elections since 1979 and I cannot remember a time when those who lost the election…
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Beyond Nwelue: An enabling environment, By Wole Soyinka
I feel compelled to intervene without further delay in this affair, having come across the following in Onyeka Nwelue’s efforts to “set the record straight” over his entanglement with the British university establishment, Nwelue revealed in his response that: The first message I received, when the article was published, was from my Canadian publisher…. telling me, they will remove my…
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Tinubu: Surmounting the odds and healing the wounds, By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz
For a hurdler who laboriously surmounted many hurdles on his way to the finish line, there could be the temptation for chest-beating and gloating. The victory was well earned. He worked for it and it came as a vindication that through acts of providence and hard work destiny could be fulfilled in spite of mountainous challenges. But for Asiwaju Bola…
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Decision 2023: the BVAS revolution, By Dan Agbese
The conduct of our national elections suffers from two historical disabilities that are deleterious to its health. One is trust deficit and the other is a template, which provides the basis for judging all our elections the same way, no matter what progress we might have made in our leadership recruitment process. The first disability posits that no Nigerian should…
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A man of faith, By Sam Omatseye
What Asiwaju Bola Tinubu – the president-elect – just pulled off is a miracle but the merchants of miracles in our midst are not shouting hallelujah. They are still querulous. Rather than see a divine halo in the man’s march to his hallowed dream, they were trying to choreograph the divine poise. They did not see his seesaw of obstacles…
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Tinubu: Now that you have been elected, By Ayobami Oyalowo
Let me start by congratulating you on winning what is probably the most keenly contested election in Nigeria, since the return of democracy in 1999. Without a doubt, you would have gotten an enormous number of congratulatory messages both locally and internationally, I therefore join all Nigerians, your well wishers, supporters, and the global community to wish you all the…
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Kashim Shettima, Dutse and the Emir’s coronation, By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu
We landed at the Dutse Airport at 1105HRS. For me, this was a moment of poignant remembrance. Between 2013 and 2014, I drove to and from Dutse, dozens of times. I was part of a team of media experts that then governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, had put together to help midwife Jigawa State Television. True to his NEPU/PRP…
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How PDP is pushing Osun Civil Servants to keep their eggs in one basket, By Samuel Adereti
We have learnt about the plan of a class of senior civil servants in Osun State to coerce, persuade and cajole their junior colleagues to vote for all candidates of the PDP in the next Saturday’s house of assembly elections. They run on a propaganda that voting APC candidates would be unwise because they would be combative to the administration…
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