Perspectives
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When the pump price goes up in Tehran, we bleed in Lagos —by Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
The price of petrol in Nigeria rises with global shocks such as wars in Iran, Ukraine, and elsewhere. A war conceived in Washington and executed over the Persian Gulf now threatens Nigerians with increased costs, paid in naira and in daily hardships. Understanding this pattern is the first step to breaking it. Nigeria’s vulnerability to external shocks is not an…
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Iran’s war of the damned and shortsighted Africans — by Seun Kolade
The US-Israel-Iran war has entered its fourth day, and the world is already learning, again, how quickly “civilisation” can be peeled back to reveal the old grammar of power: intimidation, punishment, and spectacle. Saturday 28 February 2026 now stands as a turning point. On that day, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran was assassinated in a US–Israeli…
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Not by tribe, but by tactics: Disu, the pragmatic policeman — by Folorunso Adisa
“It takes a special kind of person to serve in law enforcement. Most people run from danger. Law enforcement officers run toward it.” — George H.W. Bush The romance of the uniform is easy, but the reality is not. Policing is not rhetoric but risk, hierarchy, intelligence coordination, and command discipline. At some levels, it also becomes unavoidably political. That…
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State Police : IGP Disu, take your flowers! — by Ismail Omipidan
When the immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, left office, I gathered that part of the reason he was removed was his reported opposition to the establishment of State Police. At the time, I was hesitant to buy into that narrative, largely because of certain things I knew and the complexity of the issue. However, with the inauguration of…
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Tinubu: Unique leader with penchant for rewarding talent and loyalty, by Kola Amzat
Almighty God has configured the universe, as well as human beings He deliberately created to populate it, in a way and manner that no one is imbued with capacity to ascend to prominence on his own without the intervention of a specifically assigned Angel, Prophet or a Destiny Helper. Even Abraham, the father of faith ascended to eternal glory &…
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FCCPC: Tell us, is air travel also not for the poor? — by Bola Bolawole
David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark, remember him? This man was the military governor of Niger state between 1984 and 1986 (straddling the military juntas of Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida). He, therefore, must have been a prominent member of the group that staged the coup that ousted the country’s first (though, fraudulently?) elected civilian president, Shehu Shagari, thereby truncating democracy in…
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Nigeria and the burden of strategic choice — by Oluwadare Ayeni
The war in the Middle East, marked by escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, and widening instability across the Gulf, has unsettled global markets, redrawn diplomatic calculations, and injected uncertainty into the international system. For fragile economies, it is a storm. For complacent governments, it is a threat. For Nigeria, it is something far more consequential: a moment of reckoning.…
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Why Iyabo Obasanjo’s Ogun State governorship bid will fail — by Bamidele Johnson
Iyabo Obasanjo is throwing herself into this governorship bid with admirable stamina. I hope she fails. Why? Because I am a man of spite and loathing. Not the recreational kind. Mine is sorta personal interest-driven. IO (nee IOB) represented Ogun Central in the Senate. Ogun Central includes Lambe, my former hood, and the stretch of neglected humanity that answers to…
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Harvesting hope: Governor Hyacinth Alia’s agricultural transformation in Benue — by Babajide Fadoju
While in Makurdi, I found myself in a sun-baked field just outside Gboko, standing beside a man named Terseer Ikyo. He wore a faded cap and held a small digital tablet awkwardly, as if it were a foreign object he had only recently learned to trust. Terseer is in his late forties, a third-generation yam farmer whose family land once…
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Abioye’s new beginning and the questions it provokes by Kayode Adebiyi
There are some stories that just can’t be contained within the walls of a church. They seep into public discussions, not because people are hunting for scandal, but because they resonate deeply. The recent development surrounding Bishop David Abioye and Bishop David Oyedepo have become one of such stories. This is not an attempt to tear or run anyone down.…
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