Perspectives
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Guns, silence and the sahel, by Titilope Anifowoshe
Africa has entered a dangerous season not merely of political instability, but of moral confusion. I remember a freezing winter evening in Tianjin, China, sitting in the cramped cubicle of a Ugandan friend, when I met a West African sister from Burkina Faso. What began as casual conversation turned into a two-hour ideological battle; democracy versus military rule, ECOWAS versus…
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Rivers: Why Fubara may fight again! By Ismail Omipidan
The return of Governor Siminalayi Fubara after the expiration of the six-month emergency rule has been widely applauded by many Nigerians. To avoid any unguarded utterances, the governor, on his return to the state, appeared to tactfully distance himself from his army of supporters who had thronged the Rivers State Government House on Thursday. Instead, he showed up yesterday, and…
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Fubara’s budget coup: A governor in contempt of democracy, by Olabode Opeseitan
There are infractions, and then there are insults. What happened in Rivers State on Friday was both. In a move that defies constitutional logic and democratic decency, the Rivers State Executive Council, through the Governor’s Special Adviser on Economic Matters, Prof. Peter Medee, announced the “approval” of a ₦1.854 trillion 2026 budget. Not a proposal to the legislature. Not a…
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Governor Seyi Makinde’s own goal, by Simbo Olorunfemi
From afar, Seyi Makinde strikes you as a gentleman. He comes across as an easygoing man, like someone ti’o lagbaja. He is one that you will look at and write off the possibility of a career in politics for. I wouldn’t have imagined him as one cut out for the hurly-burly of Nigerian politics, especially in a state like Oyo…
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Imprisoned by ambition : Peter Obi’s reckless misreading of politics and power, by Sunday Dare
If the recent decamping of Peter Obi from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress was intended to detonate like a political bombshell, it failed spectacularly. What arrived instead was a dull thud—unremarkable, unsurprising, and terminally familiar. Nothing more. Nothing less. The script had been written long ago, recycled endlessly, and now—ironically—with this latest move, even that script has…
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The naivete of Pat Utomi and other intelligentsia, by Dele Momodu
PROFESSOR PAT ITOMI is one of the brightest Nigerians I love and respect. We still spoke two days ago when he called me. He gave a speech at my 40th birthday lecture some 25 years ago. I truly admired him as a young man who managed VOLKSWAGEN Nigeria in those good old days. I have followed his trajectory ever since.…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: On OYSG’s “wait and see” policy, by Chris Adetayo
I read that Explainer by the Oyo State Govt on the N30B received from the FG. That was a car crash of a press statement. It was so self-indicting one is tempted to suspect sabotage. You applied for N100B emergency support President approved N50B N30B was released. Awaiting N20B You left the N30B in FirstBank while waiting for the N20B.…
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Bodija explosion victims, FG N30 billion intervention fund, and Makinde’s hypocrisy, by Oladeinde Olawoyin
The Oyo State Government under Seyi Makinde will go down in history as the most nakedly hypocritical in its poorly veiled mendacity since the begining of the 4th republic in that state. And this mendacious tendency—enabled by an opposition in disarray, a conspiratorial local media, and an equally janus-faced civil society—is nauseating in its juvenile insipidity. I stopped talking politics,…
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Flying on the wings of destiny helpers, by Simbo Olorunfemi
Bi a ko ba r’eni feyinti, bi ole la ri. Difficult as it is to explain to those not inclined to an acceptance of the fact that there is more to life than can be seen or empirically proven, if you have, like I have, seen the hand of God at work in miraculously pulling you out of seemingly intractable…
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Building a successor generations of journalists: The Gidado’s example, by Ismail Omipidan
Are you a believer in responsive and responsible journalism practice in Nigeria? Are you also worried about the dearth of a successor generation of young, brilliant and committed journalists? If yes, then worry no more. There is a young, smart and visionary journalist, Gidado Yushau, who is making deliberate and commendable efforts to fill this yawning gap. He is doing…
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