Perspectives
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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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How I want to be remembered — Pa Fasoranti
Pa Reuben Fasoranti, leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group Afenifere, has said that he hopes to be remembered for his sincere service to society. Fasoranti made this known while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at his residence in Akure. The nonagenarian added that he should be remembered as a man who gave his all in leadership and…
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The fallacy of the ‘decent young man’ — by Wale Bakare
“I know Goodluck Jonathan very well. He is a decent young man, but also inexperienced, and I believe that contributed to his inability to manage the affairs of the country, particularly when he was faced with challenges.” – Atiku Abubakar Around 2016, a groundswell of disaffection with the trajectory of the then 17-year-old ‘nascent’ 4th Republic swept across Nigeria. It…
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Can Atiku–Obi unseat Tinubu–Shettima in 2027? — by Yushau Shuaib
Nigeria’s political landscape is gradually heating up ahead of the 2027 general elections. Yet, beyond permutations of power, recent personal encounters have exposed a deeper concern—how dangerously our national discourse is drifting toward divisive narratives of religion and ethnicity. Recently, I confronted a disturbing social media post by a purported Northern Muslim denigrating Jesus over political provocation. As a devout…
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