Perspectives
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Owo massacre: Forensics, investigation, prosecution & adjudication, By Adeniji Kazeem
Background On 5th June 2022 Nigerian’s woke up to learn of a dastardly attack by yet to be identified gunmen on Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Owo, in Ondo State killing and wounding several people. The gunmen allegedly came with automatic rifles and explosives with which they launched an unprovoked attack on worshipers. Till date the security agencies have made no…
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X-raying the policy options before Atiku, Tinubu and Peter Obi, By Babatunde Akin-Moses
What do you think would be the policy focus of the leading Presidential candidates? Based on their strengths, time in office, publicly available documents and utterances, here are my thoughts: Atiku – Atiku’s disposition suggests that he would primarily focus on a private sector driven economy. Such an administration would most likely bring about more privatization and liberalization. If we…
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June 12 and I: Setting the records straight, By Doyin Okupe
Yesterday some ignorant young men tried to disparage me by classifying me as one of those who promoted or sided with the perpetrators of June 12. This to me was an exceptionally sad development and evil rhetorics against my person, honour and integrity. The facts: I was not the National Publicity Secretary of the NRC at the time of June…
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A Muslim running mate to Tinubu, By Femi Onibonoje
Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from the Southwest and the APC presidential candidate is yet to choose his running mate. In recent elections, Nigerians have always made religion and ethnicity major issues in the presidential contests. Sadly so, but the issues have always come from religious suspicion and identity politics. There is a present agitation by the Christian community…
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The imperative of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for APC, By Abdussamad Umar Jibia
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is no doubt a party that brings together some of the most outstanding politicians in Nigeria. However, what makes the APC most attractive is the fact that it is in power. It seized this power from the PDP, a party that ruled Nigeria for 16 years and adjudged to be a failure by majority of…
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Ebun Adegboruwa’s juvenile hysteria and emotionalism, By Ayo Oluwole Peters
Were he not well recognized as a lawyer of repute and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to boot, one would have been forgiven for ascribing a personally signed press statement this week by Mr Ebun Olu Adegboruwa to the theatrical antics of an ignorant and deliberately mischievous mind. In his statement, Adegboruwa accused Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State…
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ECOWAS in a cul de sac with military juntas in West Africa, By Paul Ejime
ECOWAS, from the tune of the Communique of its latest extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana on 4th June 2022, on the political situations in three member states under military rule, would appear to have run out of ideas on how to restore constitutional order in the affected countries – Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso. The pattern has become predictable. Soldiers…
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A Pan-Nigerian ticket, By Sam Omatseye
They wanted to shred the list but it ended a watershed for democracy. Some said it was down to seven, down to three. A frenzy in Abuja air. Other aspirants broke out in arms. Lawan as consensus turned out a con. Eventually, they let a thousand flowers bloom. In the pageant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged the fairest of them…
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I hope I have not gone gaga! By Seth Akintoye
I don’t know if I have entered into any stage of dementia or just going gaga! But at the end of this article readers should be able to help seek appropriate treatment if you think so. I woke up early on the morning of Sunday, June 12, 2022, musing seriously upon life and my country, Nigeria. A popular American preacher,…
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How far can Atiku go without Obi? By Kunle Awosiyan
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, former vice president Atiku Abubakar cannot win the 2023 election without the eastern bloc behind him. And by extension he will need somebody like the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi to go far. But for pride sake, I do not see Obi jettisoning his presidential ambition since he left PDP…
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