Perspectives
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Lagos Today: Like Tinubu, like Sanwo-Olu, By Babajide Fadoju
The prayer of every father is to see his son bask in the euphoria of his legacy while making efforts to keep the records straight and adding new records to the ones already made in the days of yore. Bola Tinubu will obviously be a proud father to see how history has unfolded since 1999 when he took over the…
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Osinbajo: His presidential bid and possession by the spirit of Satan , By Babachir Lawal
I have tried to resist the temptation of joining in on the VP discourse first because he was one of my only two bosses while I was SGF. Secondly because like me, he is a Christian and a pastor to boot. Thirdly, I had visualized the matter as a Yoruba ethical and moral issue that is best handled by the…
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Peter Obi, infrastructure and his Bangladeshi model, By Simbo Olorunfemi
I like Mr Peter Obi. Trust me, I do. I first got to know about him way back in the 90’s, while he was still in the UK, I think, courtesy of the early editions of Ovation, before the magazine morphed into what people now know it as. Already wealthy then, his simplicity and outlook to life was quite unlike…
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Retrieving the philosophy in the PhD degree in Nigeria, By Prof Tunji Olaopa
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported in the second quarter of 2020 that there were 76, 526 PhD holders in Nigeria. Indeed, in the absence of current and useful data, we can conservatively approximate the 2022 figure to be somewhere around 85,000. And there are approximately more than 20,000 PhD students in Nigerian universities. This ought to be beautiful…
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Nigerian workers used their zeal and sweat to build our nation, By Prof Yemi Osinbajo
“The Nigerian worker in every real sense laid the foundations of our sovereignty and freedom with their blood and tears, and nurture it till this day with their sweat and zeal.” SPEECH DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE 2022 WORKERS’ DAY RALLY THEMED: ‘LABOUR, POLITICS, AND THE…
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Why I left Osinbajo support groups, By Funke Cole
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”Cassandra Clare Tongues have been wagging on why I abandoned the campaign train of the Vice-president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and jumped on the train of another aspirant in their bid to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari as…
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Why it is worth listening to Bola Ahmed Tinubu on sovereign economics, By Tope Fasua
Or I should title this; “Why Does APC Never Listen to Bola Tinubu (BAT)?” Well, there is surely something that the followers of Bola Ahmed Tinubu see in him, which some of us don’t. What we see more often is the bad news, the purported greed and alleged ownership of half of Lagos, and so on. But some years back,…
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Awujale, tradition and good governance, By Segun Ayobolu
On April 2nd, 2022, the paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Awujale Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Ogbagba 11, clocked 62 years on the throne of his forefathers. Preceding Oba Adetona’s ascension to the ancient stool of Ijebu, there had been 57 Awujales starting from Awujale Olu-Iwa to the incumbent’s immediate predecessor, Awujale Daniel Adesanya, Gbelegbuwa 11, who was the traditional ruler of the…
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Iran ramps up oil exports as China pulls back on Russian crude, By Benoit Faucon
Iran is ramping up oil exports and benefiting from a rise in oil prices as its main buyer, China, pulls back on its purchases of Russian oil due to the war with Ukraine. Iran oil exports—which go almost exclusively to China apart from rare deliveries to Syria and Venezuela—rose to 870,000 barrels a day in the first three months of…
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Akinwumi Adesina strikes again!
Anytime he traverses the land, air or sea like a troubadour, he must bring good tidings. Each time the Nigerian President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) comes to see President Muhammadu Buhari, he never comes empty handed. He must bring goodies and goodies for his home country. Tuesday this week was not different. Dr Akinwumi Adesina, former Minister of…
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