Perspectives
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How far can Peter Obi go? By Olusegun Adeniyi
THISDAY headquarters on Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos was not far from Mr Peter Obi’s corporate office. So, we visited each other regularly before he became Governor of Anambra State. Not only has our friendship endured, but Obi has remained the same man I first encountered more than two decades ago. Simple. Gracious. And, as I have learnt over the years,…
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Media-induced anxiety over 2023 polls, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Media reports on the possibility of postponing or cancelling the 2023 general election earlier in the week agitated many quarters. Abdullahi Zuru, chairman of the Board of Electoral Institute, a parastatal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, was reported to have quoted his boss, Mahmood Yakubu, the chair of INEC, to have suggested that rising insecurity across the country, if…
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From N’East with good tidings
Who feels it knows it all. Perhaps the region most affected by the insurgency that almost strangulated the country since 2009 is the North East. It was there that Boko Haram started, proliferated, and spread to other parts of the land. I was in two States in the region early this week, joining President Muhammadu Buhari to take part in…
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Osun Tribunal: They can run, lie but law, truth shall prevail, By Ismail Omipidan
Barring any die-minute change, the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal will this Friday, January 13, see the parties in the governorship election litigation adopt their final written addresses. Since 1999, outcomes of Election Petitions Tribunal sittings have in no small way helped to deepen the country’s electoral system. I am persuaded that this particular case will not be an exception. Like…
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The Homecoming, By Wale Bakare
The flight from Schipol Airport, Amsterdam, to Lagos was about a third of the way in when I got up and walked to the back to stretch my legs. This was a habit I had developed over years of frequent flying over long distances and I seriously recommend it to other travellers that have to make long, international flights. That…
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Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art: The beauties that represent our enigmatic continent, By Toyin Falola
People have different qualifications for art: some say it is therapeutic; others say it is inspirational; there are, of course, those who see it as educational. To Prince Shyllon, art is indeed all of these things, as documented in the impressive Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art based in Pan-Atlantic University (https://museum.pau.edu.ng). However, art’s ability to heal, educate, and inspire is…
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Dapo Olorunyomi, emerges first African Fellow of the Poynter Institute, By Omoniyi Ibietan
Oyekunle Dapo Olorunyomi, founder of Premium Times Group, multimedia journalist and media entrepreneur, and the most celebrated journalist in contemporary Nigeria, has been announced the first African Fellow of the Poynter Institute. The Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism, fact-checking and media literacy education, just announced Olorunyomi and 26 other leaders in media across the globe for the 2023…
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Who pays back the debt we owe Nigeria? By Kunle Ilupeju
This is a question that popped up in my mind sometime ago while having an intercultural discussion with a Canadian friend. I informed her during the discussion that Education is very cheap in Nigeria when compared to Canada principally due to its subsidized nature by the government. I further stated that most Nigerians, especially in Canada, are highly educated as…
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My worst flight experiences, By Bamidele Johnson
May 3, 2002. That was the first day I met Shina Badaru, then IT Editor of This Day. It was a chance meeting on a flight from Abuja to Lagos. I was returning with Simon Kolawole, then Editor of This Day on Saturday, and Ademola Adegbamigbe, editor of TheNEWS, when we met him on the plane and got introduced to…
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The thundering turnout for Tinubu in Yola, By Bala Ibrahim
The people of Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, and home to the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have joined the bandwagon, by going in the popular trend of supporting the increasingly attractive train of the Tinubu/Shetima campaign caravan, which has made an alarming appearance in the city today. The trio of President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Chairman of the…
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