Perspectives
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My fascination with the UK election and related matters, by Omoniyi Ibietan
Labour’s Sam Carling, 22, Commons’ youngest legislator, heads to Westminster to represent North West Cambridgeshire. Dubbed, “Baby of the House”, Mr. Carling, a graduate student of science at Cambridge University, defeated a veteran Conservative Parliamentarian, Shailesh Vara by 39 votes. Yet, Carling called his election a ‘political earthquake’. I think this is quite revolutionary. Indeed, election results do not have…
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LGBTQ Storm in $150 Billion Samoa Deal Teacup, by Farooq A. Kperogi
In the last two days, my social media feed has been suffused with impassioned expressions of grief and outrage from Nigerians over a putative June 28 agreement that the Nigerian government has signed with the European Union to legalize LGBTQ+ rights in the country in exchange for a $150 economic package. It turned out that a July 4 Daily Trust…
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Reflection on Nigerian Civil Service as the “Best in the World” debate, by Prof. Tunji Olaopa
On 22nd June, 2024, at a sporting event organized for civil servants as part of activities to mark the 2024 Civil Service Week, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, made a fundamental claim about the status of the Nigerian Civil Service. At that event, the HCSF commended the hardworking and intelligent civil and…
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Leveraging waterways to unlock limitless tourism opportunities in Lagos
Part of the T.H.E.M.E.S+ agenda of Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is to develop tourism potentials and revolutionize Lagos waterways. This has prompted one of the agencies of the State government to strategically position itself to unlock the limitless opportunities on the State’s waterways for economic greatness. The agency, Lagos State Ferry Services (LAGFERRY), led by a former Lagos…
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Supporting Tinubu’s regime for actualization of regional government, by Kola Amzat
Of all presidents who had been privilege to lead Nigeria in its democratic journey, none was as audacious, decisive, uncompromising, unyielding, resolute, courageous and patriotic like the incumbent. There exists no doubt that the president has knack for taking very tough and difficult decisions particularly, if he’s sufficiently convinced of the appropriateness of such, as well as the benefits to…
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Samoa Deal: The myth and politics of loan for LGBTQ rights, by Gimba Kakanda
At the outset, it’s worth noting that no nation or organization on this planet would provide a loan equivalent to half the size of a borrowing country’s GDP. As of March 31, 2024, Nigeria’s total domestic and external debts stood at $91.46 billion. Yet, we are being told to believe that we are securing a loan of $150 billion for…
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LAGFERRY: With Lagos, every trip is a show, by Uche Nnadozie
The birth of Lagos Ferry Services Company (LFSC) (better known as LAGFERRY) and its continued growth has given birth to a different kind of tourism leveraging the time-hounoured geographical advantage of Lagos State. As a state with about a third of its land space covered by water, marine transportation and it’s twin sister of water tourism should be a given. Though…
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Tinubu regime’s unreserved respect for traditional institution, Kola Amzat
But for the prompt and stern intervention of Federal Government about a week ago, the foremost, highly revered, peace-loving, progressive and very reserved monarch of Sokoto caliphate, Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar would by now be ruminating on next step to take, after he might have been dethroned from the exalted caliphate throne by the Sokoto state…
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Of Ayo Banjo, ‘Femi Falana’ and the heydays of Student Activism at UI, by Prof. Tunji Olaopa
Events, incidences and circumstances often coalesce to bring about the remembrances of things gone and things that make for how the present is constituted out of the past. The months of May and June brought about such reminiscing in the very sad events of the demise of Professor Ayo Banjo, followed almost immediately in June by that of my formidable…
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Sheu Sani: A patriot with knack for truth, by Kola Amzat
Very few Nigerians in all fields are stickler for truth, like Sheu Sani, a Kaduna born politician and social crusader of high repute. Indeed, this virtue was his Achilles heels in his quest for a second term as Senator, Federal Republic of Nigeria, the plum office he was denied by the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,…
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