Perspectives
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What Muslim/Muslim ticket are we even talking about? By Jesutega Onokpasa
I do not know the precise religious demographics of All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s family but I know it’s a Christian/Muslim mix. Nevertheless, it is most likely to be the case that Bola Tinubu goes to bed at night in his own house and, yet, he went to bed surrounded by Christians. Needless to say,…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: CAN: Time to be apolitical
The leadership change on Thursday, 28 July in the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) could not have come at a better time. It’s an ample opportunity for the umbrella Christian organization to effect a change in its trajectory. The new CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, took over from Samson Supo Ayokunle, who himself, came on board the association in 2016.…
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The problem with Nigerian university system, By Kayode Adebiyi
I have been doing a lot of research on why we continually have problem with university education in Nigeria. Chief of our problem is funding. Just like every other system in Nigeria, over dependence on government for everything is killing our university education. I am yet to see any country in the world with a working university system that runs…
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SDGs milestones
*N24 billion disbursed to States, 732 water facilities, 494 health facilities, 616 schools built, yet some people say Buhari is not working It’s an eternal battle between light and darkness, truth and falsehood. In fact, they are in mortal combat, and at times, there are fears that the forces of evil might prevail. But one is encouraged by the words…
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The journey of Sisi Abba, By Dare Babarinsa
Young Nigerians may not understand the enormity of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the first Premier of the defunct Western Region (now Ekiti, Edo, Delta, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo and Oyo states). The territory he superintended extended from Badagry in the West to Asaba in the East. He changed our lives. On May 9, 1987, he died. His legacy is imperishable. I…
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South-East should be careful not to repeat mistake of 2015, By Fredrick Nwabufo
The Igbo are loyal, giving and unwavering. They have a predilection for going to the grave with a corpse if need be. They are a dependable ally. If you have the Igbo as a consociate, you have an unrelenting sentinel. But the Igbo’s devotion to a cause, friend or comrade is their curse. They just do not know when to…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Issues in new INEC voters’ registration, By Chris Adetayo
With 96m registered voters, compared to 84m in 2019, we have added 12 million new voters to the list. About 8m of these are reportedly youth/young voters – many of whom hit the voting age of 18 within the last 4 years. This augurs well for our polity – seeing more young people get on the list rather than choose…
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Prayer as commodity, By Bamidele Johnson
In 2006, I took a friend to the American Embassy for a visa appointment. He passed the night in my place, so it was up to me to drive him there. We arrived a bit after 4am and met a shoal of visa applicants already waiting. A few minutes after arrival, a young man came and started singing Christian choruses.…
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Newly-baptised and ordained political clerics, By Kassim Afegbua
And he came with the salesmanship, oh I have joined official PDP bla-bla-bla. And the presidential candidate of the PDP is a “Northern Christian”, whose name is Atiku Abubakar.Isn’t that awry? Isn’t that smelling of hypocrisy. You spoke so glowingly of christianity as if you were born in Bethlehem and just returned from a Holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The next…
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The illusion of leaders and the delusion of followers, By Odi Ikpeazu
The worst kind of leaders, I am sure, are those charismatics who have multitudes that follow them for reasons that scarcely emanate from rational thinking. In that case, I don’t know which is to be found more disturbing – such a leader or his follower? Infinitely more disturbing without a doubt though, is the fact that we have in this…
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