Perspectives
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Tinubu’s proxy electioneering — by Bolaji Adebiyi
Time will tell whether the President’s campaign strategy will secure him victory, writes Bolaji Adebiyi At last, the crowds are gathering, signalling that politics is about to heat up. Welcome to the electioneering season. Politicians have been politicking, many of them beginning almost immediately after President Bola Tinubu was inaugurated on 29 May 2023. Something akin to permanent politics has…
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From reform to prosperity: The work to re-elect this president starts now! — Ima Niboro
Today, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu formally inaugurated the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council. With that ceremony, the work of presenting the case for his re-election to Nigerians begins in earnest. For those of us in the Media and Strategic Communications Directorate, however, the work did not begin today. We have been at it since August, putting together the structures,…
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OSUN’S strange bedfellows – Tinubu, Adeleke and the new politics of 2027— Kazeem Tiamiyu
In Osun politics, dance has always been more than entertainment. When Governor Ademola Adeleke, famous for his dancing steps, danced beside President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the inauguration of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, the symbolism was not lost on politicians back home. Two days earlier, the APC had released its revised…
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Social media influencers as the new political middlemen — by Adebayo Afolabi
Nigeria’s political campaigns have infiltrated spaces where no one goes looking for politics. A quick scroll through TikTok for comedy, an Instagram check for fashion, or a few minutes on X to catch up on the day, and a campaign message inevitably slips into the feed. It arrives disguised as praise for a policy, an attack on an opponent, or…
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A day of reflection at Adeleke University, Ede — by Adedokun Abolarin
It was a beautiful, solemn and deeply soul-searching day for me inside the auspicious and magnificent Performing Art Theatre of Adeleke University, Ede. I sat attentively as Prof. Adelaja Odutola Odukoya, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, delivered an audacious, brilliant and intellectually stimulating lecture titled “History, Power and Accumulation: Reimagining Africa in the Globally Disorderly…
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Takeaways from the APC Presidential Campaign inauguration — by Fredrick Nwabufo
Broad Consensus Beyond its political significance, the APC Presidential Campaign Council Inauguration held on Wednesday was an avouchment of the complexion of leadership in Nigeria today — expansive leadership. A leadership that pulls together, not puts asunder; which opens itself to new ideas, not keeps out divergent voices; and which considers all Nigerians, irrespective of political affiliation, as a monolith…
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Oba, doctor, alhaji, pastor, professor— by Dare Babarinsa
The highest title you can attain in the Yoruba traditional society is that of Oba. There is no title higher than Oba. In every state, each Oba is also defined by a title peculiar to his state. In Ife, he is the Ooni, in Oyo, the Alaafin, in Okemesi, the Owa Ooye, in Warri, he is Olu, in Ondo, he…
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Why we are providing free health insurance for residents of Eti-Osa — By Gbolahan Yishawu
Health is one of the clearest tests of whether public service has meaning in the everyday life of the citizen. A person may not immediately understand a motion on the floor of the House. They may not follow every debate on policy, budgetary allocation or public finance, but they understand the difference between being able to take a sick child…
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Lagos, public transportation and her impatient driver — by Bamidele Johnson
I do not know if the Lagos I came to in the early 90s still exists. Things have changed, drastically. But I suspect that in certain corners, the more things change, the more they remain the same. That is a suspicion, not knowledge. I grew up in Ibadan, a city that sits at the opposite end of the temperament scale…
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Beyond 23% MPR, should CBN reconsider 45% CRR to unlock credit?, by Blaise Udunze
The last Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was its 307th meeting, held on September 21 and 22, 2026. The decision taken was to reduce the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 26.5 percent to 23 percent. The decision of the Committee brings back a question about how well monetary policy works in an economy…
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