Perspectives
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And Debo jumped! By Wale Bakare
As Debo walked past her desk, Maureen looked up at him and smiled. He returned the favour and for the first time in weeks, the smile went beyond his lips. His eyes held a certain quality this morning that had been missing the last few weeks. Today, he did not have the weary, tired look he had taken to sporting…
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Rufai Oseni: Let us interrogate the numbers, By Temitope Ajayi
From his utterances and notoriety for talking down on his guests, Arise TV’s Morning Show co-anchor, Rufai Oseni, warts and all, has turned into a loose cannon, without a doubt. Truth be told, his unconvincing pseudo intellectual posturing is sure not doing him any good. His chip-on-the-shoulders, arrogant, and I-know-it-all demeanor while on air, though excitable to him, is not…
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A handful of men and the making of the society, By Odi Ikpeazu
I’ve been thinking lately about these things. This curious Monday ‘sit-at-home’ syndrome in the South East has always intrigued me for its lessons in mass behaviour. Initially, it was a phenomenon ingrained in the local population by force of sheer fear that had taken root in the minds of most. The consequences of non-compliance were clear for all to see…
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Frantic efforts to put out bushfires, By Bolaji Adebiyi
The two leading political parties, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, are still busy putting out the bushfires inhibiting their efforts to hit the campaign trail. Though the other two main ones, the Labour Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, have also not shown a structured head start, the challenges in the APC and the PDP…
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Wike’s drunken moment and a hopeless House of Assembly, By Wale Bakare
We are an amazing people. When otherwise intelligent persons hail Wike as some sort of hero because of his brash and often uncouth approach to governance, I just laugh. When the Supreme Court removed the impostor Governor Omehia (and rightly so) in 2007 after 5 months, it should have ended that ignoble episode. However, 8 years later in 2015, in…
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Buhari’s footprints on waterways
It’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? You can’t physically see footprints on water, but then, that’s what President Muhammadu Buhari has done with the country’s waterways. He has planted his footprints on them, and they are some of the things that will stand him in good stead as he exits May 29, next year. Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority…
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API’s Nigeria social cohesion survey: A scary report spiced with hope, By Omoniyi Ibietan
Earlier today (October 6, 2022) up till early evening, about two hundred Nigerians, listened raptly to Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, lawyer, ex-Central Banker, scholar, public intellectual and former presidential candidate in the 2019 Nigerian elections, as he delivered the keynote speech at the public presentation of the 2022 Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey Report conducted by Prof. Bell Ihua-managed Africa Polling Institute…
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The West must return Africa’s stolen assets, By Muhammadu Buhari
Nigerians were delighted by the news this summer that 72 artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, held by the Horniman Museum in London were returning home, 125 years after being plundered by British troops. The clamour for repatriation of looted treasures is becoming irresistible. There was once a similar clamour for the return of Africa’s stolen assets, and I see…
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Elizabeth and the land of the sad pilgrims, By Dare Babarinsa
Many people, who are familiar with the history of British colonialism in Africa, will be surprised about the genuine affection that many Africans felt about the late Elizabeth II, the Queen of England and Head of the United Kingdom. Elizabeth, when she came to the throne in 1952, was also the Queen of Nigeria and 18 other African countries including…
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Where is Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi? By Fredrick Nwabufo
Could this be the eclipsing of a coruscating star? Could this be the sectioning of a gadfly? Could this be the end of a political odyssey? Could this be the domestication of the fabled Lion of Ubima? Could this be Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi’s nadir? Amaechi’s political tapestry has been the craftwork of a benevolent fate. At 27, he was the…
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