Perspectives
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Death is just the beginning, By Simbo Olorunfemi
Late last night, the news feed brought me a photograph by Biyi Bandele. That was quite a late feed, as he had put the photo up on Sunday. For some reason, I keyed into the photo intensely, seeking meaning, wondering what the Photographer was trying to say through it, wondering what was on his mind. So lost was I trying…
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Still on that Omatseye’s ‘Obi-tuary’
By Mohammed Adamu Preamble They say that my erstwhile National Concord senior colleague, Sam Omatseye’s harmless titular use of the phonic pun-word ‘Obi-tuary’ was an ominous death-wish on their Labor Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Plus they had warned that if anything happened to Obi, Omatseye would be held responsible! And I was like: what, in Jove’s name, should we…
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Yusuf Alli: Tribute to the world’s kindest soul, By Musikilu Mojeed
My boss, friend and mentor – Alhaji Yusuf Alli – clocks 60 today. I am exceedingly happy to celebrate with this amazing human, a man whose good attributes are in the extreme. He is exceptionally kind. He is excessively humble in ways that know no boundary. He is so hardworking and committed to his craft that some of us, his…
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Babachir, Dogara: Unmasking the Judas dragging CAN to disrepute, By Yakubu Dati
The Christian Associations of Nigeria (CAN), established to make peace reign in the country by settling ethnic and religious crisis has gone through a lot over the years. Since it has elected a new leadership to steer its affairs, it is pertinent to offer the body a word or two of advice to save it from being used by politicians…
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OPINION: Emefiele, the worst Nigerian CBN governor ever, By Kola Amzat
Since the turn of 60s when Nigeria became independent, the Apex Bank has never lacked men of quality in control, with outstanding intelligence and brilliance, keen and shrewd minds, admirable banking and financial skills, helicopter views on economy and above all, undoubted patriotism. From the era of Alhaji Aliyu Mai Bornu, the first indigenous CBN governor to Dr. Clement Nsong…
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Questions presidential candidates must answer, By Simon Kolawole
Next month, campaigns for the 2023 elections will kick off officially. I used the word “officially” advisedly: campaign has practically taken off on TV and Twitter. Many presidential candidates are already marketing themselves. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his All Progressives Congress (APC) opponent, even took time off the other…
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Akin Mabogunje: A rare breed departs, By Waziri Adio
On Thursday, one of Nigeria’s most accomplished intellectuals, Professor Akinlawon ’Ladipo Mabogunje, breathed his last. He passed on ten weeks shy of his 91st birthday. He was a man of great thought and consequential action, one of those that balanced theory with practice. His impact extended far beyond the boundaries of his primary field, and he was rightly described as…
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How to make our university system work, By Eyitope Ogunbodede
President Muhammadu Buhari recently gave a 2-weeks ultimatum, which has since expired, for the negotiating parties to resolve the Federal Government-ASUU imbroglio. Some of us who had been in the educational sector long enough and had witnessed the aberrations knew it was a tall order and more fittingly, an impossible condition. This is not because the matter cannot be resolved…
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Love yourself, your neighbour is fine, By Odi Ikpeazu
The hatred of one’s self is a strange mental disease since the human emotion is from all indications, wired towards self love and self preservation. As a result, the apparent masochism which afflicts the Nigerian mind should be the subject of international psychiatric study or at least demand investigation by neutral expert mass psychologists. The eagerness and glee with which…
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Enough of ASUU’s garbage, By Yemi Adebowale
Last Tuesday, the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities. It declared: “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the…
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