Perspectives
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Osun: How BVAS exposed PDP’s rigging machine, By Ismail Omipidan
When in August 2022, I announced to the whole world that in Osun, my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, did not lose the July 16 Governorship election, but only lost the vote count, some Nigerians, especially sympathisers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were furious. They called me names. But they could not marshall any reasonable argument to disprove my position. So,…
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With 10mw Solar Energy, President Buhari sets Kano Industry on the march, By Garba Shehu
..City seeks to transform into nation’s Solar State For an electricity distribution area, Kano DISCO that gets between 250-360 Megawatts Hour, on a day by day, many will dismiss the commissioning of the 10mw, Challawa Kano Solar Power Project as inconsequential. Yet, in terms of, both significance and consequential impact, this power plant, the first of its kind in Nigeria…
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When the spirits know your name, Wale Bakare
Gbenga and I saw the coin at practically the same second. We were making a second sweep past Deola’s house, hoping she would come through the open, monkey-gate to go run an errand for her mother. Deola, Gbenga’s love interest, was 12 years old. As was Gbenga.As was I, the ‘follow-go’. I had not needed much convincing when Gbenga asked…
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2023: fuel and naira scarcity, a stich in time, Mr. President, By Aliyu U. Tilde
At the end of his tenure in 1985, the then Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, granted his last interview to Halilu Ahmed Getso of FRCN Kaduna. The answer to the last question in the interview was very informative. What last message do you have for Nigerians? Halilu asked. Buhari, aware of plans to topple him, simply said that if…
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Governor Adeleke, ‘Buga won’ and the Osun Election Tribunal judgement, By Temitope Ajayi
How does the anecdotal reference in the well reasoned judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal that Governor Ademola Adeleke “cant go lo lo lo” to “Buga won” and frolick on fraudulent result invalidate the tribunal’s judgement? Most of our celebrated judges and respected Justices of Appeal and Supreme Court such as Justices Kayode Esho, Chukwudi Oputa, Anthony Aniagolu, Ignatius Acholonu…
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Casting stone, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Exchange of aspersions by leading presidential campaigns suggests deliberate avoidance of issues, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Following a strategic rebound by the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign last week, its Peoples Democratic Party counterpart would seem to have gasped for breath earlier this week. Yet the PDP drew first blood when last year it renovated virtually worn out alleged past misdeeds…
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They have eyes but cannot see. Pity!
It has been a hectic week. Frenetic. We set forth at dawn on Monday from Abuja to Bauchi, to attend the Presidential and gubernatorial campaign of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates. It was only Muhammadu Buhari, the Mai Gaskiya (honest man), that could have commanded the number of people that turned out. Without inducement. Endless sea of heads. He remains…
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What if Emefiele demands your money and your life? By Dare Babarinsa
Trouble is creeping on us like the coming of the twilight and we are too bewildered to do anything about it. It is this that make you wonder who is really on our side; we the people. There is fuel price increase, we take it. There is increase in insurance premium, we accept. There is kidnapping, we pay ransom. The…
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Pastor Paul, By Simbo Olorunfemi
Mama Hilda was the first we got to know. We met her in our study of current affairs back then. She had distinguished herself as a foremost Women rights Activist, personifying at that time the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), which she served for decades. She was as distinguished as one had imagined, seeing her in real life in…
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Ogun 2023: Adebutu’s sabre ranting
By Femi Ogbonnikan The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the forthcoming general elections in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu, is not the kind of candidate one would like to take seriously for whatever the motivation of his ambition to govern the state. Although he has cleared some of the legal hurdles before him, his campaign message to…
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