Category: Opinion
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Not the Iran We Thought It Was: What has changed in the Persian Gulf
Iran’s strike on Tel Aviv
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Light of Hope: The Enduring Legacy of Dr. Nasir Sani Gwarzo By Saleh Faruq Gagarawa
By: Saleh Faruq Gagarawa As I type these words with a cannula in my hand, I find a striking resemblance between perseverance through pain and the unyielding dedication of Dr. Nasir Sani Gwarzo, mni to the service of humanity. Leaders emerge in different forms—some through rhetoric, others through action. Dr. Gwarzo belongs to the latter…
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One President, Many Spokesmen, and Mixed Messages Amid Misery by Farooq A. Kperogi
By Farooq A. Kperogi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unparalleled appointment of three official, cabinet-level spokesmen—in addition to 9 other senior media aides— symptomizes an insidious governmental malaise. It shows a government that is obsessed with public relations at the expense of public welfare, propaganda at the expense of progress, and mind management at the expense…
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Tinubu Dramatises Hollowness of Nigeria’s ‘Independence’ by Farooq A. Kperogi
By Farooq A. Kperogi OCTOBER 1 is celebrated as Nigeria’s Independence Day. But Nigeria isn’t independent. It is, for all practical purposes, a dependent state, a satellite state, whose political and cultural elites are still tethered to the coattails of colonialism and neocolonialism. Its economy is almost literally run by the World Bank and the…
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Tinubu and the “Yoruba Emir” of Kano by Farooq A. Kperogi
The contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explicitly ethnic turn a few days ago when Hashim Dungurawa, the Kano State chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was protecting Bayero from deposition and humiliation by Kano’s NNPP government because of Bayero’s…
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I am Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired By Farooq A. Kperogi
When I sat down to write my column this week, I was overwhelmed by the multitude of issues I wanted to address: the presidency’s pushback against New York Time’s factual reporting on the unprecedented economic crunch in Nigeria that was exacerbated by President Bola Tinubu’s twin policies of subsidy removal and floating of the naira,…
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“New” National Anthem is National Self-Debasement by Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi Nothing in my adult life has made me more ashamed to be a Nigerian and more inclined to completely divest my emotions from Nigeria than the readoption of “Nigeria, We Hail Thee,” a colonially created national anthem whose first stanza drips wet with the spit of racist condescension, gender exclusion, and stodgy,…
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EFCC Vs Yahyah Bello: A Well-Deserved Embarrassment
EFCC Vs Yahyah Bello: A Well-Deserved Embarrassment BY BUSY BRAIN 🧠 For the past two weeks, the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been making news and forming opinions in the media. From the Bobrisky money laundering saga to the Cubana Chief Priest case, and now, the EFCC has migrated the…
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NIGERIA’S FRAGILE ECONOMY AND CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP by Ishowo Malik Ayomide
By Ishowo Malik Ayomide Since my sojourn in this world, it is noticed that the economic structure in Nigeria has always been a major source of concern for all Nigerians. However, one of the obvious reasons Nigeria itself is a fragile nation is apparently due to the kind of leadership we have been ‘wilfully’ producing…
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Put ASUU matter to rest
For more than one year, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been grappling with the nightmare of eight months withheld salaries following last year’s strike. It’s a miracle that after that assault on their psyche they still remain sane. Consider the progression of the assault, then reflect on the outcome, and then make…