Perspectives
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Honours, memory, and those yet to be honoured, by Osita Chidoka
When President Bola Tinubu announced the Democracy Day honours list in 2025, many Nigerians, myself included, assumed that evident omissions would be addressed in subsequent rounds of national recognition. That expectation now appears difficult to sustain. The recent conferment of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on a businessman whose career included close association with the…
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Power and money are not a Nigerian exception – A rejoinder, by Kayode Adebiyi
The original article below by Tosin Adeoti on Gilbert Chagoury is compelling, dramatic, and emotionally satisfying. It gives readers a villain, a system to blame, and a familiar conclusion: Nigeria is uniquely broken because rich men know powerful politicians. But that conclusion collapses the moment we step outside Nigeria and look honestly at how power works everywhere else. What the…
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Witches, pastors, and the abdication of responsibility in Yorubaland, by Bamidele Ademola-Olateju
For along time, I wanted to write this. Today I found the time and inspiration to touch a very painful truth, deserving serious examination among the Yoruba. Belief in witches is destroying Yorubaland, not in some abstract, philosophical way, but in the most practical and intimate sense. It is hollowing out families, emptying villages, isolating elders, distorting faith, and paralyzing…
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Oil in Tongji: What Ogun must remember before the first drill, by Segun Showunmi
The commencement of oil drilling in Tongji marks a historic moment for Ogun State. It is a milestone many believed would take decades to arrive, and it deserves recognition. Ogun State can be congratulated for reaching this point, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserves commendation for creating a national environment that supports exploration, investment, and the expansion of Nigeria’s resource…
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Tinubu and the discipline of builders: Ojúmọ́ Kan, Àrà Kan, by Olabode Opeseitan
This is what the Yoruba call “Ojúmọ́ kan, àrà kan”: each dawn brings a new sign, a fresh proof of progress. Day by day, brick by brick, President Bola Tinubu is laying the foundation of an irreversible Nigerian renaissance. While others bait him with noise, he builds with vision. While they hurl insults, he secures investment. “È ébú ò so”:…
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Royal rumble: This is not A-laafin matter, by Folorunso Adisa
There is something unsettling about how often Yoruba royalty now finds itself locked in arguments over rank while the land they preside over groans under neglect. The Yoruba are heirs to a tradition renowned for philosophical depth and political sophistication. Sadly, today, the loudest royal conversations are no longer about schools, markets, roads, industries, or jobs, but about who stands…
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A house without walls, by Kashim Shettima
We cannot meaningfully market the opportunities that abound in our nation without first building a structure for engaging the world. Nations do not prosper in isolation. We are where we are today because we opened our doors to the world, and because we have so much to offer a global economy still in search of balance, growth, and shared prosperity.…
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Professional and ethical imperatives of good journalism in AI Era, by Omoniyi Ibietan
Last month, I was invited by Daily Post to keynote the 2025 annual retreat of its employees. The event took place on December 11, 2025. With weekly impressions totaling 15 million, Daily Post is one of the five leading online newspapers in Nigeria and a very defining actor in Nigeria’s emergent Fifth Estate. This post recalls my thoughts as evinced…
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Towards a better understanding of diplomatic terms and practice in Nigeria, by Sola Enikanolaiye
Introduction Over time, it has been observed that diplomatic terms and practices are largely misused and misunderstood in Nigeria. There are publications in the media and commentators who, in their public discourses, make glaring errors, blunders, goofs, and sometimes misinterpret diplomatic terms in the context of Nigeria’s diplomatic practices. Although diplomatic practice is universal in line with the provisions of…
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Trump’s politics are not America first —they’re me first, by Thomas Friedman
I have never trafficked in the conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and Russia. I never thought that he was a Russian asset or that Vladimir Putin had some financial leverage on him or sex tapes to blackmail him with. I have always believed it was much worse: that Trump, in his heart and soul, simply does not share the values…
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