Perspectives
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Proudly Arewa, By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir
“We are Northern Nigerians. We are proud of our humble origins and remarkable history. We are the children of Sir. Ahmadu Bello Sardauna, Sir. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sir. Kashim Ibrahim, Aminu Kano, J S Tarka, Shettima Ali Monguno, and Ibrahim Imam. We pray for the souls of Brig. Zakari Maimalari, Brig. Sam Ademulegun, Col. Yakubu Pam, Col. Kur Mohammed, Gen.…
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Heavens embrace Tinubu at polling stations, By Kunle Awosiyan
When he arrived Kafi Street, Alausa Ikeja on Saturday morning, the weather suddenly changed. We thought it would rain because the sky unexpectedly appeared cloudy as he walked from Sunday Adigun Street, his mother’s house, towards his own unit to cast his vote. It was so rowdy that I had to climb to peep through the numerous camera lenses to…
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Wining the presidency: The path to victory! By Temitope Ajayi
They took a flight of fancy hoping to win the presidency of Nigeria with Igbo votes in Lagos. Such grand delusion. You can’t win a presidential election in Nigeria just because you think harvesting the anger of few hate-propelled young people, including sexual deviants and luminaries of the cybercrime community, who congregated at Lekki Toll gate, in a choreographed exhibition…
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Ballot prophets. Merchants of violence, By Jiti Ogunye
Forty-four years ago, in the run-up to the 1979 Presidential Election, a Professor Godspower Oyewole, then a renowned psychic, predicted that the name of the destined winner of the election was in the Bible. Many supporters of the Unity Party of Nigeria ( UPN ) and of the Nigerian Peoples Party ( NPP ) were happy and expectant. Awo was…
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A message to my President-to-be, By Abubakar Suleiman
It’s Monday 27th February, 2023. The results are in, the concessions received. You are now Mr President-in-waiting. Congratulations, you have done it. Now the real work starts, there’s no break for nation builders. A reminder:- The FGN is not a big government, not really. We can’t solve our problems by shrinking, we need to do more for more people. Growth…
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Finally, tomorrow comes, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Without a doubt, this is the longest electioneering in the electoral history of Nigeria. The politicians entered the fray in early 2022, with Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, for instance, announcing his aspiration on 10 January after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. But it was between May and early June of that year that…
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I saw the old NNPC die
I was witness to history on Friday last week. I’d been invited to attend what was called NNPC Cutover Ceremony at the corporate head office of the burgeoning National Energy Company in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. What did the event mean, in simple English. NNPC was completing its transmutation from a Corporation to a Limited Company, as required by the…
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Presidential election: We will vote APC, we will win, By Is’haq Moddibo Kawu
I arrived in Ilorin on Monday evening because of a most tragic family death, that’s shocked our entire community. My original plan was to arrive a few days before we go to the polls; but the passing of Her Worship Mariam Kawu-Said hastened my return to Ilorin. This tragedy enveloped us all but the community was also bursting at the…
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Nigeria’s election and the pollster’s albatross, By Azu Ishiekwene
With all the predictions of Armageddon and doubt about whether Saturday’s presidential and national assembly polls would hold it does sound a bit silly to contemplate life after. Even those who grudgingly concede a life after fear it might be worse. Optimism is like playing the Ostrich. Nigeria’s history of electoral violence in the sixties and even in the mid-nineties…
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Emilokan, vigorous campaign and the coming victory, By Tunde Rahman
By the time the results of Saturday’s presidential election are announced and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is declared the winner, as expected, his victory will leave no one in doubt because it will be a well deserved victory. In this election, Asíwájú Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, offers by far the most well thought-out, comprehensive and realistic…
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