Perspectives

  • Omeife, Made-in-Nigeria, first in Africa Humanoid, arrives fit as a fiddle, By Omoniyi Ibietan

    What many thought was an abstraction, perhaps a science fiction, has debuted as a concrete, physical expression right in Abuja, the heart of Nigeria, thus rewarding a daring pioneering entrepreneurship in Robotics Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Omeife, a six-foot tall humanoid, characterised as female has just been produced by a Nigerian start-up company, UNICCON Group, chaired by Chuks Ekwueme. Just…

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  • Again, PMB proves critics wrong, By Temitope Ajayi 

    History was made today in Bauchi with the drilling of oil in Northern Nigeria. Nigerian government through the NNPC Limited found over 1 billion barrels of crude oil and 500 billion cubic feet of gas within the Kolmani area of Gombe and Bauchi states. This crude oil find has already attracted $3billion dollars investment. More than anything else, this significant…

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  • Wike

    Wike’s challenge, By Sam Omatseye

    Nyesom Wike is a unique sort of orator. He does not command a bravura class of diction, or the magnificence of phrasing, the sweet bass, the rich sibilant or tenor. But his voice scratches its way to the people’s heart. He has become both speaker and singer, a stagecraft he tops with dancing. His walking stick is a character in…

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  • Zulum: the certainty of victory, By Yakubu Ahmed-BK

    No progressive Nigerian is in any doubt of the potentiality of the victory of Borno state Governor Professor Babagana Umara Zulum in his bid for a second term re-election. In fact, majority of Nigerians see his re-election as a fait accompli. What is the basis for this nationwide confidence that Zulum is about the only governorship candidate in Nigeria that…

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  • What kind of leader should succeed Buhari? By Folabi Ogunleye

    ALTHOUGH it may seem like the case given my recent expressions, I truly do not begrudge others of their alternate preferences for a successor to Nigeria’s President Buhari. On the contrary, I truly believe that everybody has a right to his preferences, good or bad as such preference may be. In fact, on a good day, on any day, I…

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  • Dapo Thomas, the civil war and Nigeria’s perceived Igbo problem, By Segun Ayobolu

    Is there an ‘Igbo problem’ that has persisted and increasingly grown more complex, compounded and nation-threatening in post-colonial Nigeria? In chapter 9 of his slim classic, ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’, titled ‘The Igbo Problem’, the late Professor Chinua Achebe dilated on this issue. According to him, “Nigerians of all other ethnic groups will probably achieve consensus on no other matter…

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  • Death, trauma and roaches’ paradise, By Bamidele Johnson

    Osita Nwajah, currently the head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s communications unit, calls me “The Man” up till today. Once in a while, Niran Adedokun also inserts The Man into our conversations. The name originated from a robbery experience Goodluck Ilajufi Ebelo and I had in May 2000, during which two lives were lost. It was at a…

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  • Iṣẹ́, Ìṣe, Ìṣẹ́, By Simbo Olorunfemi 

    For different related and unrelated reasons, I often find myself interrogating our concept or understanding of work (iṣẹ́), specifically from the Yoruba worldview, which I take the liberty to assume is, in part, representative of the contiguous cultural configurations around the Yorubas, especially in Nigeria.  How do we see work? What, for us, is the essence of work? Why work?…

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  • Atiku eyes southern votes with commitment to power devolution, By Bolaji Adebiyi 

    Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president of Nigeria and the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election was at the Nigerian Guild of Editors’ Forum in Lagos on Wednesday where he laid bare his plans, which he called his covenant with Nigerians. He spoke to a 74-page document that articulates his vision and mission for the country he had…

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  • Buhari: I feel freer when I have nothing

    During his recent trip to London for routine medical checkup, President Muhammadu Buhari had time to meet and greet newly crowned King Charles 111 at Buckingham Palace. The President recounted the encounter thus later: “He asked me whether I have a house here. I said ‘no’. Even in Nigeria, the only houses I have are those I had before I…

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