Perspectives
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Asiwaju is here! Let’s just do it! By Debo Adesina
The times are tough.It is therefore just appropriate that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shunned all forms of celebration of his 72nd birthday. He has great dreams. And a proverb says a man who wants his dream to come true does not sleep. That is a proverb Asiwaju has lived all his life and is living even more, now! That…
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President Tinubu at 72: Leadership in challenging times, by Tunde Rahman
Today is President Bola Tinubu’s 72nd birthday. Instead of rolling out the drums to celebrate the day, the President directed there should be no celebration of any kind, including placing newspaper, radio or television advertorials in his honour. He urged anyone wishing to do such for him to donate the money to charity organisations. The decision was taken in deference…
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Grieving From The Front, by Bolaji Adebiyi
Efforts to comprehensively deal with violent crimes must be intensified, writes Bolaji Adebiyi President Bola Tinubu was the chief mourner on Wednesday as the 17 military personnel, four of them officers, gruesomely murdered on March 14, 2024, in Okuama in Delta State, were interred at the Military Cemetery, situated near the gate of Abuja, the nation’s capital city. At the…
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It is our duty to protect the families of our fallen heroes, by Bola Tinubu
It is with heavy heart that I join you today to commit to earth, the remains of our officers and men who died in the course of duty on 14 March 2024 in Okuama Community, Delta State. The officers and soldiers who lost their lives that day were patriots, brave and noble men who gave their lives to defend and…
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Kassim Shettima: Nigeria’s exemplar Vice President, by Kola Amzat
While Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was bidding for the nation topmost office, he was conscious of the fact that the presidency is a behemoth that need a closely knitted, politically savvy, result-oriented, as well as resourceful and very envision team to handle. Consequent upon his ugly experience while he was the Chief Executive of Lagos State, he also knew he…
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Adebayo Okunade: Ode to an exemplary teacher, by Prof. Tunji Olaopa
When Henry Adams, the 19th century American historian, states categorically that “A teacher affects eternity,” he translated his observational experience into what millions of people all across the world today can relate with. According to him, either good or bad, “he can never tell where his influence stops.” Teaching is a vocational calling that radiates through many generations. And this…
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EXPLAINER: What the ‘Renewed Hope Infrastructure Fund’ means, by Bayo Onanuga
Background: Nigeria needs $35 billion yearly, up till 2040, to cover its infrastructure expenditure. President Muhammadu Buhari, realising that the government could not meet this huge cost, established the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF), with National Sovereign Wealth Authority, playing a vital role. The PIDF helped in the realisation of critical projects, such as the Second Niger Bridge and the…
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Beware of State Police, by Nsikak Ekanem
State police system remains one of the prominent features of devolution of power among national and subnational governments that true federalism agitators have been ceaselessly pushing to be enshrined in Nigeria’s constitution since the return to democracy in 1999. The Bola Tinubu presidency, which commenced on May 29, 2023, is the first time the clamour is not only gaining increasing…
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The uncommon transformation of water transportation in 1000 days of LAGFERRY’s operations, by Akeem Odusina
Between February 10, 2020 when the commercial operations of Lagos Ferry Services was launched by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at Badore Terminal, Ajah Eti-Osa and March 19, 2024; it has been an eventful journey of one thousandth (1000th) day of commuting Lagosians and businesses of Lagos on the inland waterways. Despite months of lockdown occasioned by the global outbreak of Corona…
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The transformative power of Lagos-Calabar Coastal superhighway, by Temitope Ajayi
Barely a month after the Federal Executive Council approved the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal superhighway, the contractor has moved to site to build what will be a monumental civil engineering project that Nigeria has ever seen. Since the construction of the iconic Third Mainland Bridge that stretched over 11 kilometres across the lagoon, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal road will usher…
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