Perspectives
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Azuka Onwuka and the illusion of press freedom under siege, By Ayo Olasoji Peters
Mr. Azuka Onwuka, a usually not perceptive columnist with The Punch newspaper on Tuesday, December 20, weighed in in his column on the recent media exchanges between the Boards of Editors of the THIS DAY/ARISE media group and two key media strategists of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Strategic Communication and…
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Tribute to Rev Allen Angus, Igbobi College first principal, By Bolaji Akinyemi
Now we praise great and famous men, The fathers named in history; And praise the Lord who now and then Reveals in man his glory. Praise we the wise and brave and strong, Who graced their generation, Who helped the right, and fought the wrong, And made our folks a nation. Praise we the great of heart and mind, The…
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Why I will vote for Tinubu, By Aliyu Tilde
On 25 February 2023, I will pick this voter’s card, walk to the polling centre and cast my vote for His Excellency, Chief Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the Jagaban Borgu. This is a firm commitment given after a history of association, honour, demographic reality, constitutional requirement, weighing pros and cons as well as the personalities of the candidate and his running…
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Emefiele and his friends, By Bolaji Adebiyi
It had all the trappings of fake news as it made the rounds in the Social Media space in the early hours of Monday. The story was that the Department of State Services, one of the nation’s ubiquitous secret police establishments, had lost a surreptitious legal battle to have Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, kept behind…
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Security: Comforting thoughts at Christmas
We are not fully there yet, but anyone that is honest and not filled with bile against the government of the day will agree that very significant advances have been made in the past year against the insecurity that had beleaguered the country for more than one decade. Is the Eid-el-Kabir not behind by many months? Is Christmas not ahead…
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Gods, Greats and Goats, By Simbo Olorunfemi
If you have followed football long enough, chances are that you would have seen some of the gods in their element, you would have being in awe, seeing greats at work. If you have followed the game long enough, you must have seen masters who danced with football at their feet, soldiers who stood as barricades before the goals and…
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Sadism towards the rich and famous is all the rage, By Bamidele Johnson
Safe to say, at this point, that Basketmouth, accomplished giver of laughter, is unlikely to find laughter easy to come by. The announcement, made today, of the collapse of his 12-year marriage, grim for him, wife and their children, is already sparking laughter on the social media. Running alongside that is the reboot of the regular howls of derision at…
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Selimat and the Train, By Wale Bakare
As Selimat approached the makeshift level crossing, her mind was a whirlpool of thoughts. The events that had played out with her Supervisor as she was rounding up her shift the day before were still very fresh in her mind. She wasn’t looking forward to going to work and had almost called in sick. But it wasn’t in her nature…
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Re: Dr. Doyin Okupe – setting the records straight! By Tolu Babaleye
A lot of misgivings and distortions have been given about Dr. Doyin Okupe and his conviction today by the Federal High Court Abuja as everyone and every authority was just writing whatever pleases them. The facts are as follows: In January 2018, Dr. Okupe was charged along with 2 other companies, Value Trust Investments Ltd and Abraham Telecoms Ltd. The…
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Messi’s Emilokan, By Sam Omatseye
Lionel Messi always inflicted me with a binary disease. I love him, but not his country. Any time I saw him play, he revived the maestro of my boyhood fancy: Haruna Ilerika. He is small, just like Haruna. He is a leftie, just like Nigeria’s former number nine who clutched Africa player of the year honours twice. He enjoys the…
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