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The feud between the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, and the Governor Gboyega Oyetola may not end soon, as Aregbesola has openly declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is sharply divided. Aregbesola, at the commissioning of the Digital Nigeria Centre (DNC) at Ijesa Muslim Grammar School, Ilesa, confirmed the existence two factions in Osun APC: one chaired by Rasaq Salinsile and the other chaired by Gboyega Famodun and loyal to Oyetola. Before Aregbesola visited the state, yesterday, to commission the ICT centre, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Ismail Omipidan, had said, on a radio programme,…

In sports, victory has many associates, just as defeat is an orphan. Before the kick off of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroun, not many football fans in Africa gave the Super Eagles the chance of winning their opening game against the Pharaohs of Egypt, considering the shoddy preparation Nigeria had before the tournament. From the furore over the sack of former coach, Gernot Rohr, to appointment of Augustine Eguavoen on interim basis, as well as the refusal by some European clubs to release some key players, the Super Eagles was seen as a team that will only make up the numbers in…

In anticipation that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will zone the Presidency to the southern part of the country in the 2023 general election, the Southwest and Southeast geopolitical zones have started gearing up for the impending battle. It is becoming clearer by the day that both zones are not willing to leave anything to chance as they keep perfecting their strategies to produce the next president of the country. Although there are gladiators eyeing the number one position from other parts of the country, aspirants from the Southeast and Southwest…

President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Sam Ohuabunwa, has said he is poised to deliver quality leadership to Nigerians and run the nation’s affairs like he will a business. This is as he informed the Peoples Democratic Party of his intention to contest its ticket in the 2023 presidential election. Addressing correspondents after meeting with the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja Thursday, Ohuabunwa warned against seeing the country’s security challenges as sectional problems. According to him, creating distinctions between Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, or the killings and kidnapping in other parts of…

Fola Ojo The alert on my phone roused me up from my sweet sleep in cold Wisconsin weather on Monday with the news. The screaming headline in a Nigerian newspaper bayoneted the story: “I am a kingmaker; I want to be king.” The audaciously resonant statement was made by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of ruling party, All Progressives Congress. Tinubu went on to say to reporters, “I have never seen where it is written in the rule book anywhere in any country in the world that a kingmaker cannot become king.” And the accompanying noise lurking in…

Ayo Olukotun “The military formations, the uniforms, the starch, the saluting aides-de-camp, the parade-ground precision might look, at last, like the decisiveness of purpose that Africa needs in its leadership. They camouflage a regimented sterility of ideas and social policy” –Ruth First, “The Barrel of a Gun”. Mali, once a poster nation for orderly and qualitative elections, has in the last two years become the butt of global derision and pungent jokes on account of anti-democratic behaviour. The so-called transitional junta presided over by Colonel Assimi Goita increasingly exemplifies how quickly a once orderly country, even if poor, can…

After executing his first game of the tournament with maximum result against a crack opponents as the Pharaohs of Egypt, Interim Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen is firmly focused on tomorrow’s AFCON 2021 Group D clash with Sudan. “I am focused on winning against Sudan for now; I don’t want to think about any record or how we go about our third match. Sudan is in focus now and we have to deal with that, squarely,” Eguavoen fondly called Cerezo in his playing days told NFFTV in Cameroon Apart from the 4-0 win over the Eagles in…

“If everything is for sale, including the courts and the police, trust evaporates, credit vanishes and business withers” – Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, p 257 (2016) It is no longer news that Nigeria’s courts have normalised corruption and abuse of power. They have also put the corruption of courts and judges beyond the realm of accountability. Having developed into a country incapable of generating indignation for these perversions of high judicial office, Nigerians nevertheless wonder why the country has descended into an orgy of violent self-help. What follows is a recent timeline of how.…

The world seems to be lacking depth on the leadership front, visionary and impactful leadership now resides in Santa’s bag and that’s if COVID-19/Omicron allows Santa to open the bag at all. Present-day ‘leaders’ are held up in sectoral politics and individual interests, which are bearing devastating effects on the businesses/the world and threatening to make them fall apart. Since the passing of Prof Kofi Anan and Nelson Mandela, two outstanding leadership templates of the African continent, almost every news bit from the continent on leadership has been an echo of disappointment. From the poor management of the continent’s resources…

Abimbola Adelakun We always knew the day would come when former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, would declare his interest in running for president. In a country where politics is about seizing power, his presidential ambition has been especially obsessive. After leaving government in 2007, he has been calculatedly amassing the resources that will land him in Aso Rock. Unfortunately, Nigeria cannot afford a Tinubu presidency. Following the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s locust years with the impotence that Tinubu’s leadership portends is to doom the country. After eight years of maladministration by Buhari, we cannot waste one more…