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Opinion: Transformational leadership in the 21st century
By Muideen Adebayo Ibrahim “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis I sincerely welcome you all to the maiden edition of this column and by His grace it will be a weekly affair going forward. I just had a brainwave to embark on this journey simply because I observed with dismay […]
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Opinion: Insecurity and the plight of kidnap victims (1)
By Abiodun Komolafe Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times. A native of Ilesa in Osun State, Fayehun’s ordeal started on March 2, 2021, when he, alongside others in his vehicle, fell into the hands of some Fulani kidnappers along Osogbo-Ibokun-Ilesa Road in the state. While some of the passengers were killed and […]
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Opinion: Why Osun should appreciate Governor Adeleke for transparency
By Ismail Abdulganiyu In public office, there is what is called Oath of Secrecy. Its aim is to control the flow of information, in and outside the Government. Past administrations in Osun oftentimes hid under this public service principle to deprive their people accountability and transparency in governance. However, in the case of Governor Adeleke, […]
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Opinion: The Death and Resurrection of Mohbad
By Busy Brain He fought but lost the battle along the line. He voiced out but his voice could not be heard by colleagues. We all gathered to post Rest in Peace. We all could have done better to raise our voices against tormentors. He is dead but the light is on. No excuse, we […]
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Opinion: States are broke, nothing done in 100 days
By Dele Sobowale Money talks”; and virtually all the state government just finishing their first 100 days in office had very little to say because they are broke. In the past, print media was bombarded with 100 days reports from every state. We sometimes had insufficient space for them. Now, we have next to nothing […]
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Opinion: Obasanjo and Obas – A Clash of Protocols
By Temitope Oyetomi (Gentle Topman) Plus, times Minus is equal to minus. + x – = -OBJ delivered a right massage (+) in a wrong manner (-). So, we will multiply + by –, which is -. The fact is, there is State Protocol. State Protocol requires that when the Number 1 citizen of the […]
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Opinion: These Palliatives Are Not Getting There
By Taiwo Adisa Last week, I witnessed a scene play out in one of the states where agents of the government were busy distributing palliatives to the “poorest of the poor” in line with the lingo that got popularised in recent years by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. An open-roof truck, call it a minivan was […]
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Ipade Imole: A precept for good governance
By Sarafa Ibrahim Oftentimes, we relish the progress in advanced societies and hope that similar experience be replicable here. As good as those thoughts usually are, we do miss one critical factor, and that is the existence of a proper feedback mechanism that is applicable in those environments that primarily account for the growth and […]
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Opinion: Osun APC And The Gabby -Garrulous Verbose Of A Sooko
By Oladele Bamiji In the last couple of weeks, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressive Congress, intermittently angering in their incredulous gaze at the weight of catastrophe, which ruptured on them through the July 16 2022 verdict of the indomitable people of Osun State, has engaged in collapsable epistles exposing the party’s political […]
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OSUN APC: A Group Of Cynic Vampires
By Olalekan Badmus (Phoenix) ‘Inferiority’ is a complex that affects its victim’s mentality and destroy their emotions. A psychologist, Dr. Michael Brustein opined that “people who feel inferior and have low self-esteem” often fall into the habit of projecting their own feelings of not being good enough onto others. For several years, the people of […]