Perspectives
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Awo and the truth about Baba Layinka, by Dare Babarinsa
Were Chief Obafemi Awolowo to be alive, he would have turned 106 yesterday, March 6, 2024. Thirty-seven years after his death, Awolowo’s thoughts remain a dominant element of the Nigerian political landscape. Many members of the political class, who may not have read a paragraph of Awo’s writings, love to wear the fez cap that became a symbol of Awolowo’s…
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Gov. AbdulRazaq in the race to sparkle economic opportunities through KW-SAPZ Programme, by Sangodare Ayinla
“In the next two years when our Agro-Processing Zones are launched, you will see that Kwara will be the leading state in dairy production and milk production as well” Above were His Excellency’s re-assuring words when he was responding to a reporter’s questions in Cairo-Egypt some months ago during the “Intra-African Trade Fares 2023” to reiterate his government’s resolve to…
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Military intervention; never again!
Very dominant in the public domain, especially in the social media platforms in the last couple of weeks was coup scare against the government of President Bola Tinubu. Even though, the military has stoutly denied the unpalatable story through its Ag. Director of Communication, the fact remains that such destructive and very expensive rumour has some iota of truth. Also,…
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No to false bill on Local Government Autonomy, by Adewale Adeoye
I have read about the bill seeking autonomy for 774 Local Governments in Nigeria. This is a bill that seeks to castrate Nigerian indigenous people and tie the fate of their political economy to the Abuja hegemon. We must think critically, and employ symbolic logic to understand the immediate danger this bill represents. We must kill it. The day this…
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The day of glory and falsehood on Aba Power Project, by Sam Amadi
Congratulations to Professor Barth Nnaji and his crew for the successful completion of the Aba Power project after many years of setbacks. This is a day of jubilation for Aba residents and people of the five southeast states. Governor Alex Otti and his officials deserve praise for their contribution to the completion of the Aba Power project. Aba is the…
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The seven fruits of President Tinubu’s Qatar trip, by Dada Olusegun
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, once again, continued his aggressive marketing of Nigeria as the investment destination of the next decade as he displayed his charming charisma on his last trip to the State of Qatar as he did in India and Germany. The President is back in Nigeria with a bag of goodies; this time with seven major agreements in…
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Tinubu’s Reforms: We admonish no retreat, no surrender, by Chief Niyi Akinsiju
To understand the nation’s current economic milieu, we have to go back to June 15, 2016. Nigeria’s central bank, on that day, announced it would abandon its currency’s dollar peg in preference for a free float of the Naira in an effort to alleviate the chronic foreign currency shortages choking growth in Africa’s biggest economy. Under one week after the…
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Yetunde follows Father-U Turn, by Femi Adesina
Remember the hit track by Father U-Turn titled ‘Yetunde’ in his 1999 album, Padlock Your Mouth? Well, that was the song I used to tickle my friend and professional colleague, Yetunde Oladeinde (née Francis), who passed on just over two weeks ago. Yetunde Yetunde o Yetunde mi da Yetunde Yetunde Yetunde o Yetunde mi da Yetunde Yetunde o, my darling…
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View from Abroad: Nigeria’s economy not in a mess, by David Roberts
I lived and worked in Nigeria for many years as a British diplomat, and one of the issues that most disturbed me was the sustenance of the fuel subsidy regime. Why would a country with a severe infrastructural deficit invest more money on a wasteful expenditure such as cheap petrol instead of building schools, hospitals, dams and a national railway…
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Building hope and investing in the future, by Babafemi Ojudu
This is my birthday month. There can be no better gift than what is happening today. In 2002, I lost my mom, Raliat Boluwade Ojudu, to a brain tumor. She was 65. For three months after her passing, I would wake up in the morning, sit at the edge of my bed, and sob. To bring closure to the tragedy…
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