Perspectives
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ADC: A coalition without direction, purpose, or political future, by Abdulhakeem Alawuje
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has clearly demonstrated that it is a political gathering going nowhere. This reality is now an open secret, one that has triggered panic, suspicion, and deep internal unrest within opposition camps. ADC members appear eager to move, yet they lack a destination, a compass, and a shared vision. What exists within the party is not…
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Rethinking global finance on Africa’s terms – OpEd, by Ade Adefeko
“Africa does not suffer from a shortage of capital. It suffers from a shortage of appropriate financial architecture.” This Op-Ed reflects Africa’s place in a rapidly changing global financial architecture, drawing from discussions at Africa House during the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos. It argues that Africa’s development challenge is not capital scarcity, but the misalignment of global financing…
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Fela Kuti, Africa’s revolutionary struggle and Nigeria’s neglected history, by Oluwadare Ayeni
Fela Anikulapo Kuti remains one of Africa’s most fearless cultural revolutionaries and political voices. He was not merely a musician; he was a movement, an ideology, and a constant reminder that art must speak truth to power. His contribution to the African revolutionary struggle and the birth of Afrobeat stands among the most powerful legacies in modern African history, yet…
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Democracy without sacrifice: The myth of Obi and Atiku-By Seye Oladejo
The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) finds it imperative to interrogate-without sentiment or euphemism-the so-called democratic credentials of two serial presidential aspirants, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, who have recently anointed themselves as the conscience and moral barometers of Nigeria’s democracy. Democracy is sustained by consistency, sacrifice, respect for institutions, and fidelity to the will of…
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Looking past the Davos applause for Canada’s Prime Minister, by Gimba Kakanda
I feel goosebumps watching Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, deliver this speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and for students of history, it must evoke the knowledge of smaller powers rising up to a bully that begins to cross the boundaries of tolerance, just as European states came together to stop Napoleon. But there’s nothing the…
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Fela: Stoning the orange tree, by Folorunso Adisa
When the Yoruba, in their enduring ingenuity, coined the saying “Ọmọ osàn ni ń kọ́ pọnpọ́ bà ìyá ẹ”(that it is the orange fruit that makes us stone the orange tree) they may well have been anticipating a moment like this. It is difficult to find anyone who does not revere the memory of Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti. Musicians who walked…
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Ibadan is Oyo, by Lasisi Olagunju
On Monday, 25 March, 1946, Chief I. B. Akinyele, Chief James Ladejo Ogunsola, Messrs D. T. Akinbiyi and E. A. Sanda, the very cream of the Ibadan educated elite, met behind closed doors with Oyo town delegates at the secretariat in Ibadan. One of them got home that day and wrote in his diary that they “could reach no agreement…
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NLNG v. NIMASA (2026), by Mide Alabi
The first time I met Dr. Babs Omotowa, the former CEO of Nigeria LNG, I was struck by how calm he seemed. It was surprising because, if you’ve read his book, From Storeroom to Boardroom, then you know the man has weathered storms that would make most CEOs crumble. He wrote about a company that was battling market forces while…
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Rivers crisis: A word for outgoing governors, by Yemi Kolapo
Last week, issues around the renewed face-off between Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and his estranged godfather, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, dominated the media space. The first few episodes of the Season 3 of this seemingly interminable Nigerian succession movie have been as exasperating as they’ve been comical. No one would have thought that…
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How do you solve a problem like Dave Umahi, by Olabode Opeseitan
How do you solve a problem like Maria? That whimsical line from The Sound Of Music, split down the middle between exasperation and affection, was the convent’s lament over a young woman who refused to conform. Maria was too spirited, too spontaneous, too full of life for the cloistered rhythms of abbey life. She sang when silence was expected, danced…
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