Independence address, endless promises no specifics
By Dele Sobowale Bayo Onanuga, the Senior Special Adviser to the President, accused critics of writing their responses without reading Tinubu’s address. That is certainly not true about me. In fact, the address was read to me by Uncle Sam, the Publisher of Vanguard, in his house – while asking for my comments on a […]
The Communion of the Saints and Spiritual Interrelationship
The mystery of the communion of saints underscores the profound interconnectedness of all the faithful, both living and dead, within the Christian faith. This doctrine highlights that our spiritual journeys interweave, given our shared life in Christ.
$1trn economy by 2030 Achievable — Bagudu
…Says Tinubu’s reforms have set economy on growth path By Babajide Komolafe, Economy Editor Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, has expressed confidence that Nigeria can achieve President Bola Tinubu’s $1 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) target by 2030. Speaking in Abuja during a courtesy visit by the European Union (EU) Parliamentary Committee […]
Coups and rumours of a coup, by Rotimi Fasan
There has been a remarkable shift in the political landscape of West Africa in the last few years. Soldiers are again making an odious entrance into the corridors of power. Silently but steadily, they are returning and the martial strains of their voices are getting louder. It’s becoming fashionable to speak of soldier-rulers in the same […]
The Dollar fetish, SUVs and the colonisation of the African mind, by Usman Sarki
“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards”,– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks In the nineteenth century, many African communities exchanged their lands and even their kin for beads, mirrors, trinkets, and other fanciful objects of vanity that European traders dangled before them. These […]
Politics of Lagos Igbo property demolitions, by Ochereome Nnanna
The emergence of Senator Bola Tinubu as the “winner” of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship ticket on December 21,1998, unknown to many, marked a major historic turning point for Lagos State. Ordinarily, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the man in charge of the party’s primaries in Lagos, should have insisted on a rerun. He did not, mainly […]
