Perspectives
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As President Bola Tinubu goes to Paris, by Simbo Olorunfemi and Ade Adefeko
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be visiting France in a few days to be hosted by French President, Emmanuel Macron on a State Visit. While President Tinubu has visited France at different times since he assumed office, most of the trips have been private. However, his first official foreign trip in June 2023, less than a month after his inauguration,…
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France : A strategic push for economic growth and regional stability and the agenda before President Tinubu, by Jamil Auwalu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to France may seem to many just another matter of diplomatic routine. However, for those attuned to international relations, President Tinubu’s visit to France is an important strategic opportunity. Indeed, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s three-day state visit to France is more than a symbolic gesture; it is a strategic move with potential to lift…
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Measuring national progress, NBS data, and scepticism, by Bayo Onanuga
Recent reports from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have become a focal point of criticism and scepticism, especially by the political opposition and perpetual doubters of any positive report about our country. In its Q2 labour survey report, the NBS says the unemployment rate fell from 5.3 % in Q1 to 4.3% in Q2. Compared to the unemployment rate…
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K1 and Fuji: The debate is pointless! By Olawale Olaleye
I’m not inclined to join the filthy debate on Fuji supremacy. The controversy has never come to a sensible close and may never do. Not even when ego has crept in, and every Fuji artist is now boasting some level of financial security. Good thing, actually! But whichever way anyone chooses to interpret the unceasing muscle-flexing and the curious resolve…
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What is Obasa’s crime? By Innocent Raphael
What should have been a memorable budget presentation for Lagos State took an unexpected turn, as media coverage focused on an imagined political conflict rather than the budget’s content. Recent criticisms of Speaker Mudashiru Obasa of the Lagos State House of Assembly have sparked debates about his leadership and alleged political ambitions. However, when examined closely, these accusations appear baseless,…
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Umar Ganduje: a political stabiliser-in-chief, by Kola Amzat
Besides several political blunders committed by the immediate national chairman of APC, Adamu Abdulahi in the build up to electing APC presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections, amongst which was his singlehanded bid to present Ahmed Lawan, an immediate past senate president to ex-president, Muhammud Buhari and the party leadership hierarchy as the consensus candidate, the former Nassarawa governor…
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VAT attribution and derivation: A personal appeal to all parties, by Muhammad Nami
I have read a ton of views on the proposed Nigeria Tax Administration and other tax reform bills. On one hand, some stakeholders decry the bills as being a contrast to the current administration’s championing for local government autonomy. Some, like the National Economic Council (NEC), last month recommended the withdrawal of the bills, stating that there were too many…
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Our partnership is rooted in mutual respect and shared values, by Bola Tinubu and Emmanuel Macron
In the present era, international relations are often framed as if there were only two possible outcomes for States: to dominate, or to be dominated; to vassalize, or to be vassalized. Nations are supposed to make a choice in favour of this or that hegemon, this or that bloc. The lesson we are learning from our experience as Heads of…
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One President, many spokesmen, and mixed messages amid misery, by Farooq A. Kperogi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unparalleled appointment of three official, cabinet-level spokesmen—in addition to 9 other senior media aides— symptomizes an insidious governmental malaise. It shows a government that is obsessed with public relations at the expense of public welfare, propaganda at the expense of progress, and mind management at the expense of meaningful management. On November 14, Daniel Bwala, the…
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LAGOS 2027: Between Obasa and Seyi Tinubu, by Sunday Babatunde
The race for the 2027 governorship race seems to have started earlier than expected in the Centre of Excellence, Lagos State, albeit on a very dramatic note. The presentation of Lagos State’s 2025 budget proposal on 21 November was expected to be a milestone event, but the session at the House of Assembly became a noteworthy spectacle of discord and…
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