Perspectives
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US mid-term election: A timely lesson for Nigerians, By Uche Diala
The much awaited American mid-term election has come and is going and the results as they pan out all but defy all projections, expectations and known traditions of American mid-term elections regarding a ruling party. Significant to note is that the predicted “red wave” did not happen. In the lead up to the election, Republicans especially its ‘MAGA’ wing led…
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How not to talk with Africa about climate change, By Muhammadu Buhari
Part of my nation is underwater. Seasonal flooding is normal in Nigeria, but not like this. Thirty-four of the country’s 36 states have been affected. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced. Together with drought-driven famine in the Horn of Africa, cascading wildfires across the North and wave upon wave of intensifying cyclones in the South, climate disasters in…
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Ortom’s ceaseless diatribes against Atiku: A call for restraint, By Terry T Waya
It has become necessary for me as a mutual friend of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, Wazirin Adamawa and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, to intervene and correct some misleading insinuations peddled in recent media outbursts. I wish to begin by stating that I have stood by Governor Samuel Ortom through all his political challenges beginning from his unfair treatment…
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A new agenda for telling Africa’s stories, By Omoniyi Ibietan
As a theory of knowledge, perspectivism speaks to the notion that our knowledge and perception of anything is shaped by the interpretation of those observing the occurrence of things. Interestingly, we now have the grace to glean as many perspectives as the number of people observing events. Thanks to the reigning paradigm of public digital communication culture that gives unprecedented…
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As PDP schemes a return to power through the courts, By Jesutega Onokpasa
I just read with exceeding consternation that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, is presently prosecuting a most shamefully self-centered and shamelessly opportunistic case seeking to have absolutely each and every candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the next elections disqualified on grounds that they have been illegally presented for the polls, having been so put forward by allegedly…
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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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