Perspectives
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For Osundare, literary acolytes rise to meet the rocks, By Akeem Lasisi
The legendary rocks, waterfalls and other icons of Ekiti must be in an elated mood today as they receive friends, associates, students and mentees of their great son, Professor Niyi Osundare. It is at the 2022 edition of the Niyi Osundare Poetry Festival, holding at Fountain Hotel, Ado Ekiti. The legends – the likes of the Orole and Olosunta hills;…
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Opinion: Desperation to halt Tinubu’s march to Aso Villa, By Kola Amzat
Contained in the political hatchet-men ‘out of date’ Armory are sets of ‘old fashioned’ Arsenals which they unleash from time to time to gauge the mood of the nation and with the sole objective of undermining and railroading Bola Tinubu presidency project. They gullibly lay ambush to release a new weapon as soon as they realize that the one earlier…
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Archbishop Ladigbolu: From Pulpit to the Throne? By Temitope Ajayi
I have seen some media reports that suggest retired Methodist Church Archbishop, Ayo Ladigbolu is in the race to be the next Alaafin of Oyo. This is quite an interesting twist in the race of who succeeds the late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. I have always been enamored by the active involvement of Bishop Ladigbolu with leaders across the country and…
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If Lee Kuan Yew was a Nigerian, By Tope Fasua
Nigerians like to quote Lee Kuan Yew and the successes of Singapore ad nauseum. Every seminar is replete with quotes from the gentleman. Every Nigerian loves to brag about having read his fat book, From Third World to First. And the more cerebral ones will tell of his references to Nigeria in 1961 as a nation that was unlikely to…
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Nigeria, Ekweremadu, hypocrisy and kidney failures, By Seth Akintoye
Kidney diseases and failures are one illness that I will not imagine my enemy to have. It will drain all your resources and at the end the patient will still die! At The Guardian on Sunday, I did a story on the epidemic of kidney failures in Nigeria over 20 years ago. It was a front page story; in fact,…
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Dealing with Peter Obi’s pandemic of distortions, By Olabode Opeseitan
It is time for Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party to pause and ask if he is deliberately distorting facts to feed gullible Nigerians with false information to win their hearts and gain their confidence or if the misrepresented facts he has continued to use are genuine mistakes he urgently needs to fix. In the context of…
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NIGERIA: Deliver us from restless idealism, By Folabi Ogunleye
Look ehn, me, the people I dread the most to be in positions of power are the barely tested talkers – including the ones who spend more time going on about what is wrong than what, specifically, they will do to fix what is wrong. It is worse when these people are lone-rangers who have no established support system of…
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Warning shots from Kigali
On the sidelines of the 26th edition of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) holding in Kigali, Rwanda, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team Thursday morning visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which is one of the monuments in memory of about a million people that were killed in the 1994 pogrom. The Hutus had in 100 days of rage and…
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The Sino-American parley: An eye-opener for Nigeria, By Bola Ahmed Tinubu
“We have been here a week. This was the week that changed the world.” The above quotation were the words of President Richard Nixon in his toast at the concluding banquet on February 27 1972 during his state visit to China. Some might have said his comment was an overstatement, but the event truly changed the course of history of…
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JKF: No longer ‘the apprentice’, By Olawale Olaleye
Last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, has stoked some interrogations on the political artery of the state, with ideology at the centre of it all. There’s also been interesting reports and opinions about the fact that the feat of Saturday had broken 23 years succession jinx in the state. But a few people have equally been stifled by the…
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