Perspectives
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Oga Steve Osuji: This Shettima is different, By Ismail Omipidan
When the American comedian, Groucho Marx, defined politics as “the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies,” he may not have had Nigeria in mind. However, his definition of politics aptly describes our present situation in Nigeria. Otherwise, a cerebral Nigerian journalist would not have picked up his pen to write…
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Who wins? By Raheem Akingbolu
Less than thirteen days to the 2023 presidential election, the die is cast and the hens are coming home to roost. Supporters of the major contenders have been trying to out-do themselves in telling us that their respective candidate is the President-in-waiting. That’s legitimate. But let it be taken to the bank that the presidential candidate of the ruling All…
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Tinubu on currency swap, By Kayode Oyedeji
When Tinubu spoke in Abeokuta on CBN Currncy redesign, he spoke the minds of an average Nigerian on the need for the CBN and the Federal government to address the unintended consequences of the Apex Bank initiative. The Naira Swap Policy has created a supply crisis that has unfortunately led to distortions within the economy, foisting needless hardship on the…
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The cash fiasco – rescuing the people, saving the policy, By Tope Fasua
I had written about the efficacy of ‘following the money’ by changing the currency in order to give Nigeria’s many organized criminals – kidnappers, bandits, drug-dealers, and of course some heavily-corrupt civil servants and politicians some hard times, months before the Buhari government eventually came up with the idea in October 2022. See https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/548804-cleaning-black-money-as-an-urgent-national-imperative-by-tope-fasua.html. When the project was announced therefore,…
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Chrisland – A Legacy in Jeopardy, By Chris Adetayo
In the mid 1970s, Mama Awosika and her late husband, Victor Awosika, ventured into an arena that individuals didn’t go into. Back then, very few thought of sending their wards to private schools. For our public schools were great – great facilities, great teachers, great programmes. Schools were decently funded and even though teachers weren’t the best paid around, they…
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Saluting Bonje at 60, By Lanre Arogundade
At UNIFE……Great Ife…..that period in the early 80s, the students’ socialist movement was fairly large; and all shades of Comrades displayed their ideological and political prowess in ways that suited their fancies – some through mouthing slogans, some through incessant polemical wars against those labelled reactionaries or right wingers. Amidst it all, one Bolaji Adigun stood out for his few…
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Opinion: Nigeria hour of glory is here, by Kola Amzat
Even though, Nigerians are oblivious of the fact that President Buhari two terms tenure of 8 years would terminate May 2023, the consciousness of the election that would produce his successor didn’t actually overwhelm them until the conclusion of the presidential primary(s) that produced the presidential candidates of the notable parties. It was then that it dawned on the citizenry…
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Kankara killings: Fulani militias still enjoying free rein, By Yemi Adebowale
Families across Bakori and Kankara local government areas of Katsina State are still burying bodies of their loved ones 11 days after a clash between Fulani militias and Yan Sakai, a vigilante group set up by Hausa communities. The Hausa vigilantes are found in Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states. Between Wednesday and Thursday last week, in several villages in…
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Benue APC: The resurgence of the spirit of Awolowo and Tarka, By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu
We flew into the hot and humid afternoon of Makurdi to an airport reception as electric as could be expected for a rally in Benue State. They’ve always done things differently in Benue. It is not for nothing that this state was named after Nigeria’s second river. The majestic flow of the Benue courses through Makurdi; and while it enthrals…
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Doctoral feather to Dele Alake’s cap, By Segun Ayobolu
It was dusk in Lagos on one of those tense and tortuous days after the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election decisively won by Chief M.K.O Abiola on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP). He was one of those persons from diverse fields of life under watch by the ubiquitous security agencies because of their…
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