Perspectives
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‘I am Jagaban, they can’t scare me’ — by Lasisi Olagunju
“Even a corpse put in a coffin will defeat Tinubu in 2027.” ADC chieftain and northern politician, Buba Galadima, gave that promise at the ADC convention last Tuesday. He was wrong. The corpse, the coffin and the carpenter will be buried by Hurricane Tinubu in the election of next year, unless… Unless what? Unless they remember that he is Jagaban…
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Why Nigeria won’t go back to years of the locusts- by Seye Oladejo
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) considers it imperative to once again remind Nigerians that our nation has irreversibly moved beyond the dark, wasteful, and inglorious era that history will forever remember as the Years of the Locusts. As the 2027 electoral season gradually comes into view, certain familiar political actors, now huddled under the banner…
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A generation under siege as Nigeria’s drug crisis deepens — by Blaise Udunze
This piece speaks directly to the current consciousness of many Nigerians as some crises erupt with noise, explosions of violence, economic shocks, political upheavals and then some unfold quietly, steadily, almost invisibly, until their consequences become impossible to ignore. Nigeria today is living through the latter. Today, this hardly or rarely dominates the front pages of newspapers with the same…
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Sola Oshunkeye at 70 — by Ismail Omipidan
Journalism brought us together, though I did not initially know we were both from Osun State. I only discovered he was my kinsman around 2009, when I was planning to sue Senator Grace Bent over allegations that I had collected money to defame her. To refresh readers’ memory, Senator Bent had earlier dragged me and The Sun before an FCT…
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Prosperity gospel: Between Pastor Yinka Yusuf and former Vice President Osinbajo — by Richard Akinnola
For a pastor that l admire, I’m highly disappointed in Rev. Yinka’s Yusuf’s shade at Prof. Yemi Osinbajo over the latter’s stand on “prosperity gospel”. He said inter alia: ”Accusing and bashing pastors instead of our politicians for the monumental failure of the Nigerian state is a sign that our psychiatric hospitals in Nigeria needs urgent attention”. Really? He went…
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Re-open letter from Kio Amachree! — by Segun Showunmi
Your letter is long on theatrics and short on restraint. It is heavy with sweeping claims, grand threats, and an air of inherited authority, yet ultimately collapses into little more than empty boasting dressed up as intervention. Let me be clear from the outset: you are not your father, Godfrey Amachree, and no lineage however distinguished confers on you the…
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Easy places are full: What my Lebanese friend taught me about business in Nigeria — by Kemi Adeosun
Before you scroll off in anger: calm down. He is real. He has been in Nigeria longer than some of you reading this have been alive. His children go to school here. His grandchildren may well be buried here. The Lebanese community in Nigerian business is not a rumour, not a colonial hangover awaiting apology, and not going anywhere. They…
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World Bank report, Peter Obi and misinterpretation of data — by Michael Chibuzo
Your latest post about a World Bank report on Nigeria’s federation account deductions, coming just days after Atiku posted his own, simply reinforces the reality that you are confused about many things. You often muddle things up and even end up contradicting yourself without realising it. For someone who aspires to lead the world’s 8th most populous nation and the…
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Clarification: On Sunday Dare, economic reform, and the Nigerian public square — by Pat Utomi
I was genuinely thrilled to read Sunday Dare’s response to my recent commentary on the management of the economy. Setting aside a regrettable touch of incivility, his engagement could have served as a stellar contribution to the marketplace of ideas—the very essence of a functioning democracy. I know Sunday Dare well. For many years, he was often the one who…
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Segun Showunmi: A response to your cowardly defence of Gilbert Chagoury — by Kio Amachree
Otunba Showunmi,I have been made aware of your published attack on me in the Punch newspapers, in which you chose to dismiss my documented exposé on Gilbert Chagoury as “misinformation” and to encourage the Chagoury Group to sue me. I am writing this letter to ensure that you understand, in terms you cannot misread, what you have done — and…
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