Perspectives
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Nigeria 2023: We stand on Tinubu’s mandate! By Wale Adedayo
Among all the politicians jostling for the Presidency of Nigeria only Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has what it takes to preside over the affairs of a country like ours in today’s ever-changing world. He has proved it several times over in Lagos State to the admiration of his worst critics, a category to which…
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For Alaafin, so long a journey, By Dare Babarinsa
Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, the late Alaafin of Oyo, learnt his job of being king in the most difficult way. When he was born on October 15, 1938, his father was a dashing prince, who had witnessed the end of the old order. Adeyemi’s grandfather, Oba Adeyemi the First, was the principal figure among Yoruba princes, who signed the treaty…
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Buhari’s ministers and their multi-million naira nomination forms, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Despite the public outcry against the exorbitant nomination forms of the dominant political parties, Abdullahi Adamu, a senator and national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, insisted earlier in the week that anyone who could not boast of N100 million in his account had no business wishing to govern Nigeria. His arrogant response to a legitimate concern about the…
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They claim Buhari has done nothing. UN Scribe, Antonio Gutteres, says not so
The Yoruba people of South-west Nigeria have a saying: when a child rejects instructions at home, it is from outside that such child is trained. And that was exactly what happened on Tuesday and Wednesday, this week, when United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Gutteres visited Nigeria as part of a three nations African tour. He said it was “a visit of…
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ECONOMIST: Yemi Osinbajo on the hypocrisy of rich countries’ climate policies
Africa needs more energy. Total electricity use for more than a billion people, covering all 48 sub-Saharan African countries except South Africa, is less than that used by Spain (home to just 47m). The dearth of power hurts livelihoods and destroys the dreams of hundreds of millions of young people. We must close the global energy inequality gap. Africans need…
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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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