Perspectives
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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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Atiku and Muslim-Muslim ticket, By Segun Ayobolu
It is instructive that the kidnappers that attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28 killing some and holding 63 others hostage and demanding a ransom of N100 million Naira for each of the victims to gain their freedom, have most disturbingly threatened to kidnap the Commander-In-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as governor Nasir el-Rufai…
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A toast to my brother at 68, By Kehinde Bamigbetan
Former Ambassador to Cuba, Senator Segun Bamigbetan Baju is 68 today. This occasion brings so many memories of growing up under his tutelage that I will have to select the most profound if this piece is not to end up as a book. My earliest recollection took me back to the room. In the one storey building that our father,…
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Wike, a governor possessed by spirit of flyovers, By Yemi Adebowale
He enjoys grandstanding and all the attention that comes with it. This man also does virtually everything to the extreme. That’s Nyesom Wike, the springy and tyrannical governor of Rivers State. Few weeks back, he gleefully announced that his government had decided to award contracts for two additional flyovers in Port Harcourt. When completed, it would be his administration’s 12th…
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