The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday February 10th, 2022 – World Pulses Day
World Pulses Day is an international day established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to recognize the importance of pulses (dry beans, lentils, dry peas, chickpeas, lupins) as a global food.
Vice President Osinbajo: To Run Or Not To Run – Osinbajo is up against a formidable political machine by Kola King
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is at once a professor, pastor and politician conducted to the nation’s second highest political position by happenstance. In short, he was catapulted from obscurity to national limelight. He is a beneficiary of the unwritten elite code that has resolved that the nation’s highest leadership would be shared between a Muslim candidate and a Christian running mate or vice versa. In a way, religion has taken a central role in the affairs of the nation such that a candidate will ignore it at his own peril.
The journey of Professor Yemi Osinbajo to national prominence requires a quick recap. In the run up to the 2015 presidential election, the candidate of the newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari had secured the party’s ticket for president and the next thing was to pick a running mate. Simple as it seemed, this presented a tough choice for the new party. The former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who played a key role in the merger of three other parties that subsumed to become the APC was also angling for the vice president ticket. Both Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari are of the same faith. Yet such a ticket posed a real problem for the new party. Besides the new leadership frowned at such a combination, believing it would be a costly mistake the party could ill-afford at such a critical juncture.
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“Interrogatives” #poem by Neil Leadbeater
“Those days we could use interrogatives like
Did I tell you about the heatwave in July?
and get a Yes /No answer
without alarming the young
about global warming”
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Sceptic feathers #028 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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