Perspectives
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2023: The media, responsibility and integrity, By Segun Ayobolu
It could not have been more tersely phrased. Section 22 of the Second Chapter of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended) on the ‘Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy’ states unambiguously that “The press, radio, television and other agencies of the mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this chapter…
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Afenifere on the boil, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Disagreement within the Yoruba social-cultural organisation over the 2023 presidential race shows a decline in its consensual approach to politics, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, has been embroiled in a political controversy since Sunday. It arose from the visit of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, to the Akure, Ondo State home of…
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Demolish these facts, if you can
It is very amusing to hear people try to denigrate the achievements of the anti-corruption war under President Muhammadu Buhari. But facts are stubborn things. The more you try to deny or contemn them, the bolder they stare at you in the face. Boldly, even rudely. President Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have had three guiding…
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Afenifere: Beyond Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, By Wale Adedayo
The recent visit of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to the Akure home of Pa Reuben Fasoranti continues to raise dust among many Yoruba, with almost all those making comments failing to take congnisance of the historic meaning of the visit and its implications for the Yoruba Nation. For a number of Yoruba, including…
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In Yorubaland, a king is not buried alive, By Dare Babarinsa
Afenifere is in the news again for its own sake. What has triggered the latest soul-searching for the pan-Yoruba political and cultural organisation was the public visit of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to the Akure, Ondo State, country home of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of Afenifere. This visit has…
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Regional commodity exchanges as the ultimate panacea to rural poverty and low agricultural productivity, By Taminu Yakubu
Nigeria has 75 million hectares of land for farming. Of these, only 44% or 33 million has been deployed into production with a yield hardly up to 20% of the average standard threshold. Nigeria has 1.2 million hectares for irrigation, with only 25% of it or 300,000 hectares under cultivation. The observed suboptimal output is certainly due to low productivity…
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Tinubu’s manifesto and the South-East, By Frederick Nwabufo
What is in it for us? When it comes down to brass tacks, this is the question tugging at the heart of zonal political interests in Nigeria. The national integrants think in favour of group interest and protection. How will this government preserve our interest? Will this government be fair to us? Will this government secure our rights and freedoms?…
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Oke – Koto water debacle and the question of the needful, By Olajide Shuaib
It’s no longer a news that the descension of the Pen cinema Agege flyover at Oke-Koto Agunbiade end is undergoing a repair work barely a year after its commissioning. Prior the repair work, driving through the area to Ikeja, Oshodi or Iyana Ipaja particularly in the outgoing rainy season became excruciating as a result of the large failed portions of…
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2023: Who are the Yoruba leaders? By Adewale Adeoye
I dont know if there is division in Afenifere But I watched Pa Fasoranti this evening on TV He said “Tinubu, O maa wo le” which means “Tinubu, you will win.” Chief Olu Falae spoke in the same vein. I guess Baba Fasoranti acted based on his conscience either rightly or wrongful. At the fullness of time in the coming…
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The Igbo insularity and it’s Yoruba wàhálà, By Chimaroke Nnamani
How did the Igbo get to this? Who sold this massive con job? Who are the snake oil salesmen? Why the perceived mistrust of the Yoruba? We never fought? Our properties were never seized? Our businesses thriving in their Homelands? Blossoming intermarriages with multiple offsprings? Common language etymology. They stayed out of Nigeria/Biafra war until the Benin expedition.Fajuyi died for…
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