Perspectives
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Dar Es Salaam declaration and President Tinubu’s relentless quest to give Nigerians stable electricity, by Dada Olusegun
Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu left Abuja for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on January 26th to attend the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit. His mission to Tanzania was straightforward – to further galvanise efforts, multilateral support and investments aimed at increasing electricity access to Nigerians. The Misson 300 initiative itself is aimed at expanding electricity access to 300 million people…
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31 States: There must be an end to nonsense! By Ismail Omipidan
Since my encounter with the National Assembly, first as a reporter, reporting its activities and later as a political appointee, I have always defended its actions. I do it deliberately because I believe the actions of our lawmakers are most times misconstrued. Last year, when the House of Representatives, through the Office of the Speaker, held a summit on National…
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Increase of 2025 appropriation bill to N54.2trn: salute to a transparent President, by Kola Amzat
Literally, government budget is a projection of government’s revenues and expenditure for a specific period, usually referred to as a fiscal or financial year, which may or may not correspond with the calendar year. As fundamental as Appropriation Bill to government fiscal planning is, as well as maintaining financial focus in governance, successive leaders of government had totally been found…
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Africa in the post-idea world, by Vice President Kashim Shettima
Being the speech of His Excellency, Senator Kashim Shettima, GCON, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Dr. Kayode Fayemi Commemorative Symposium and Launch of the Amandla Policy and Leadership Institute, with the theme “Renewing the Pan-African Ideal for the Changing Times: The Policy and Leadership Challenges and Opportunities,” at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja,…
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Kayode Fayemi at 60: A profile in courage and determination, by Raheem Akingbolu
As he sat inside the plane and his thoughts hovering between trepidation and confidence, John Kayode Fayemi, then a veritable tool to the then National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, was in Nigeria as part of efforts to set up the now defunct Radio Kudirat, the guerrilla radio station that was an irritant to the despotic regime of the late General Sani…
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Reading list For public servants and reform managers, by Tunji Olaopa
Since its inauguration many decades ago, public administration has generated a permanent discursive framework that ensures that it has the theoretical and practical contents to sustain the professionalism and efficiency that the public service requires to complement the state everywhere. This becomes even more critical given that the democratic imperative keeps articulating and aggregating the significant political preferences of a…
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Routine rush to join ruling party, by Eric Teniola
On Friday December 19, 2008, Prince Vincent Eze Ogbulafor (24 May 1949- 6 October 2022) from Olokoro, Umuahia South local government of Abia State declared that his party the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) would rule Nigeria for the next sixty years. At the time he made the declaration, he was the fifth National Chairman of the party. Before him, the…
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2027: El-Rufai, Amaechi, Aregbesola, Fayemi have no electoral value to unseat the President, by Kola Amzat
Keen observers of developments in the nation political sphere would not be disappointed at vituperations and ranting of the quartet of El-Rufai, Amaechi, Aregbesola and Fayemi at APC, the ruling party and even, to the president. In recent times, they’ve all seized the platforms of an Annual Abuja Political Conference and other different political fora they’re separately invited, to…
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Beyond the Triumphalism of Trumpism, by Simbo Olorunfemi
“What is soft is strong” – Lao Tzu If there was any doubt that the return of Donald Trump as the President of the United States of America would usher in another round of chaos in the international arena, unsettling allies and international institutions, provoking foes and neutrals, throwing up in the air laws, norms, and conventions that had been largely considered…
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Lagos indigenes in GAC must stand firm against Obasa’s rumored return-By Lasisi Robert
If the rumored reinstatement of Obasa as Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly becomes reality, it would suggest that Lagos indigenes within the Governance Advisory Council (GAC) have compromised their stance—becoming what K1 De Ultimate once referred to as GANUSIans. Obasa was lawfully removed on January 13, 2025, by 32 out of 39 honorable members of the House,…
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