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Flaws in Oyetola, Aregbesola: Public Relations Perspective

By ISAAC OLUSESI isaacolusesi@gmail.com The trade of snarls on the past and present State of Osun governments of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by commission or omission, is counter productive. The quid pro quo, for most of the time has generated controversies. Out of relics. Painfully, the latest altercations have only instituted sweeping commands from ...

The Bola Tinubu they don’t know

Cocaine Bust: Marwa rewriting history in NDLEA

Adeleke’s victory, not blood-stained

Osun 2022 guber: Truth and justice

The Electoral Act 2022 allows an ‘aspirant’ to be nominated as ‘candidate’ of another party for same or different elective office

Osun guber: YIAGA’s revelations vindicate my position

Ismail Omipidan Let me state from the outset that this is not a media trial of the case before the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal. Far from it. This is just an attempt to ‘synchronise’ what I said recently with respect to the outcome of the July 16 election with the revelations from The Youth Initiative ...

Strengthening NBA-SBL for enhanced performance

Adewale Kupoluyi The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has elected new set of officers to steer its affairs for the next two years. The coming on board of seasoned lawyers is an opportunity to consolidate on past achievements and develop fresh strategies that would made the section a force to be reckoned ...

Why National Assembly must reject National Grazing Reserve Council Bill — Austin Monye

I decided to read a copy of the National Grazing Reserve Council Bill and I was surprised at what I saw. The Bill creates a council to be chaired by a Chairman to be appointed by the President. The council shall have the power to take your land anywhere the land is located in the ...

A nation in chains

By Dakuku Peterside Something remarkable happened last week at the 2022 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) conference in Lagos. However, social media was awash with mundane, trivial, irrelevant, and cosmetic portrayals and representations of the Vice-Presidential candidate of APC at that event. They focussed on the appropriateness, type, and size of the shoe the ebullient Senator ...

Understanding Governor Oyetola

Kunle Oyatomi I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. – Horace Walpole (1717-1797). The contemporary political history of Nigeria reveals one universal truth: leadership or headship of a government is beyond winning elections. Victory at the poll is the cherished desire of ...

Who is Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke?

By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The headline above is not originally mine. Rather, it is the title of an online publication by ng.news247.com on 30th May, 2021, the eve of Osodeke’s election as the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Osodeke took over the mantle of leadership from Prof. Biodun ...

Bua group: The other side of the story

By FEMI ADESINA The common, and perhaps, popular narrative for political, baleful and pernicious reasons, is for people to say that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has run down the economy of the country completely since its advent in 2015. The fact that the global economy is spiraling out of control with inflation, stagflation, recession and ...

‘I still believe in Buhari’

By FEMI ADESINA To be troubled in trouble is to have your trouble doubled, so goes a saying. And for Hassan Usman, a lawyer, it didn’t just rain on March 28, this year, it poured. He was not only onboard the Kaduna-bound train attacked by terrorists, his wife, Amina, was also there. They both got ...

Open letter to the people of Osun

Kunle Oyatomi I write this missive against the background of the outcome of the Osun gubernatorial poll conducted on July 16, 2022, with the main protagonists being incumbent Gboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress, APC , and Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. It is also in the context of the decision ...

Unmasking the masquerade: Erasmus Ikhide’s House of Representatives quest

By Igbotako Nowinta Today, the political track in Nigeria is being filled and charged with aspirants of all shades, sizes and colours wishing or seeking to represent the people by using the fast approaching 2023 general elections as a scaldfold to showcase themselves, with a view to winning the hearts of unsuspicious members of the ...

Osun guber election: Why it’s illegal for a Governor-elect to question a sitting Governor

By KOLA OLABISI There's nothing that Akpan will not witness at the gate of his master! The series of the latest horrendous happenings in Osun State political sphere today where the governorship election has just been lost and won are scary, strange, disheartening and primitive. The subset of the nation is becoming a geographical expression ...

2023: Between Atiku and Tinubu

By Kassim Afegbua This is the era of political campaigns where all manner of subterfuge are allowed to flourish to confuse and convince the undiscerning mind in a bid to raking up votes for the election. I have listened to, and dissected both personalities of Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Tinubu in terms of experience and ...

Politics of forced congratulatory messages over Osun guber election

By KOLA OLABISI It is not unusual for a genuine exceptional performance to witness a litany of congratulatory messages from well-wishers, friends, relations and acquaintances. Such congratulatory messages should however, not be at the behest of the person being celebrated. For a congratulatory message to have its deserved intended meaning, it must genuinely come from ...

Egungun and its misinterpretation

Egungun festival is one of the most celebrated events in Ogbomoso, the land of valiant. It is mostly observed by the traditional religion faithfuls and others who have keen interest in tradition. The inception of this festival can’t be traced to any year in order to forestall history from being distorted; several attempts to get ...

Losing in Osun is against the run of play

By Davidson Ayoade Ojeniyi On Osun election, Oyetola lost the election not because he didn’t perform as a Governor. In the same token, he didn’t lose totally because he had a problem with Aregbesola. He lost simply because he governs a state of a generation which doesn’t seem to understand what it is actually looking ...

We must take flooding more seriously

Adewale Kupoluyi The issue of flooding has assumed frightening proportions going by what was recently experienced in Lagos State and other parts of Nigeria. Flooding has become part of life in Nigeria because of its unique geographical features. This is not to mean that the problem is peculiar to the nation. No. It is a ...

Alleged non-payment of full salary: Do not believe the rumour

By ISAAC OLUSESI isaacolusesi@gmail.com Albeit, the event, its leadership was entirely a National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) affair, I get drawn characteristically to public issues, opinions and events on their non-intuitive values and germane exigencies, prompted, in the instance by Comrade Jacob Adekomi’s alert, asking the State of Osun labour movement to shun ...

Osun 2022: Oyetola’s second coming

By Kassim Afegbua (July 12, 2022) It is very obvious that the APC candidate in the Osun State election for Saturday is already decided for victory on account of his silent achievements and breakthrough in the State of Osun. Oyetola, by his nature prefers to be unsung, allowing his achievements to speak on his behalf, ...

Barkindo’s final words to me

By FEMI ADESINA Here today, gone tomorrow is a common saying. But with the then outgoing Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, it was here in the morning, gone at night. On Tuesday, July 5, 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari had a schedule by 10 am to receive Barkindo, ...

What’s wrong with Muslim-Muslim ticket?

Adewale Kupoluyi As the political cloud thickens ahead of next year’s general elections, the selection of the running mate or vice-presidential candidate for the respective presidential hopeful remains topical. This is because the position of presidency is the highest in the land and everyone is concerned and interested in who emerges as this would go ...

Addressing stunting among children

Most people are unmindful of the connections between nutrition and physical growth of their children, especially in Africa, heath experts have observed. According to them, it sometimes seems insignificant when people see stunted children being called names and it stops at that. They have also predicted that with this unawareness, poverty and other issues such ...

Bridging the gap in Nigeria’s health sector beyond COVID-19 pandemic

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) describes the COVID-19 pandemic as a defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge faced since World War II. The UN agency argues that since COVID-19’s emergence in Asia in 2019, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. It says the pandemic is in fact much ...

Providing quality legislative representation

Political analysts observe that one of the factors that determine growth and development in every democratic government is the quality and the commitment of the representatives elected to coordinate the political affairs of the electorate. According to them, in most advanced countries where democratic government is the driving force to growth and development, quality representation ...

2023: Between the rock and hard place

By Bola Bolawole turnport@gmail.com 0807 553 5533 In December 2019, I attended a FICAN (Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria) workshop sponsored by the NIDC (Nigeria Insurance Deposit Corporation) held at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State. The university is said to belong to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, recently crowned the presidential flag bearer ...

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