PERSPECTIVE – Lessons from Osun APC Governorship Primary
By Abiodun Komolafe “As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” - Winston Churchill The Osun APC Governorship Primary, won by…
Category: Opinion
PERSPECTIVE – DELSU fees hike: In defense of school and students
By Charles Ifeanyi Monye The Delta state University Abraka is the epicenter of education in Nigeria.With about 30 thousand students, DELSU symbolizes the fortress of knowledge,acknowledged as the original fundamental light of society from where…
PERSPECTIVE – Ungoverned spaces, ungoverned minds and their governors.
. By Owei Lakemfa Some parts of Nigeria are becoming increasingly ungovernable. The news everyday is, in some cases, grave and the prognosis not so good. The United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, reports that in Borno, Adamawa…
PERSPECTIVE – 2023 zoning and aspirants’ pairing permutations (4)
By Ehichioya Ezomon In the "Mother of All Elections" in 2023, Nigeria is having a heavy dose of speculative news spread by canvassers for aspirants or the media, particularly the online, that trade in "breaking",…
PERSPECTIVE – Ukrainian war: Time to call the Europeans to order.
By Owei Lakemfa THE eight-year war in Ukraine took a dramatic turn yesterday when Russian troops officially rolled into the country on the side of the separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. It was also…
PERSPECTIVE – Another round of smear campaign against NDDC
By Etim Etim Every now and then, a smear campaign against the NDDC, possibly sponsored by self-serving politicians and contractors, would make its way through a section of the media. The kernel of these publications…
PERSPECTIVE – Takeaways from Oyetola’s tour of Osun LGAs
By Abiodun Komolafe Evidently, the strategic engagement tour, recently embarked upon by Governor Gboyega Oyetola, to all the Local Governments Areas (LGAs) in Osun State, was a veritable look-back mechanism, which afforded him a…
PERSPECTIVE – People arrested, prosecuted for alleged killings, mayhem in Idumuje-Ugboko not related to land acquisition
By Fred Akpewe Swipe has several times be taken at persons who ignorantly or out of mischief try to paint the erroneous impression that the land acquisition for university project in Idumuje-Ugboko is related to…
PERSPECTIVE – 2023 zoning and aspirants’ pairing permutations (3)
By Ehichioya Ezomon The rotation of the presidency between the North and South of Nigeria for the 2023 general election remains fluid, even as the number of aspirants for the exalted office swells by the day.…
PERSPECTIVE – Conducting census for the living and the living dead.
By Owei Lakemfa Life in Nigeria is very cheap and living is very costly. But please don’t ask me for the statistics because they are hard to come by. Registration of birth, especially in the…