Perspectives
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Iyabo Obasanjo, one small political step — by Olusegun Odegbami
A week ago, it was reported that Iyabo Obasanjo, a former Senator, a professor of veterinary medicine, a scholar, teacher and socio-cultural activist, has registered as a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State. That move was unexpected because she had been out of Nigerian politics for a few years.Her action immediately set off ripples of speculations…
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How Nigeria became world’s poster nation for transformative reforms – by Olabode Opeseitan
From painful adjustments and political firestorms to World Bank praise and a new global benchmark for economic courage Something rare happened on an ordinary Tuesday in Abuja this week. In the cool formality of the Presidential Villa, far from the street-level jokes about “suffering and smiling,” a quiet verdict was delivered on two bruising years of economic upheaval. A senior…
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The appreciating naira: Not so fast –by Victor Ogiemwonyi
The Nigerian Naira appreciated and reached an exchange rate of N1,386 to the Dollar this week. This shift is partly due to the weakening US Dollar and struggles in other global currencies, like the Japanese Yen, which is trading at ¥153.While seeing the Naira gain value is encouraging, we must be careful. We need a stable and predictable Naira more…
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Obasanjo’s ‘Not My Will’: A review with a rejoinder – by Ladipo Adamolekun
Fair comment on any piece of writing would require that the author’s objective should be the reviewer’s major reference point. The objective of Not My Will (Ibadan, 1990) is stated in the Introduction as follows: “I have endeavoured to put this book out before the third republic and early in the last decade of the twentieth century as part of…
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Ondo yesterday, today and forever – by Olu Verheijen
Origins Fifty years ago, on this soil, a dream took root. On the 3rd of February 1976, the old Western State was transformed into three brand-new states, one of which was named Ondo, after the existing province of the same name. The 18,165 square kilometres of land carried the hopes and aspirations of 2.7 million people, blending ethnicity, language, religion,…
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Would Ahmadu Bello still recognise today’s north? – by Adebayo Abubakar
The political air is thick with accusations from a section of the northern elite, alleging the marginalisation of their region under the current administration. This narrative, often weaponised to heat up the polity, conveniently sidesteps a monumental and uncomfortable historical truth: for approximately 46 of Nigeria’s over 65 post-independence years, the nation’s helm was held by leaders of northern extraction.…
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FDI: Why reforms must balance ratings and reality — by Testimony Akinkunmi
On January 23, 2026, the African Export-Import Bank did something unprecedented in development finance: it fired its credit rating agency. Afreximbank’s termination of Fitch Ratings followed a bitter dispute where Fitch downgraded the Cairo-based institution to junk status (BB+) before withdrawing coverage entirely. The bank’s statement was blunt—Fitch’s methodology was “analytically and legally flawed,” failing to recognise Afreximbank’s treaty-based preferred…
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How President Tinubu’s NELFUND provides equal access — by Dare Ojepe
In a country where identity often arrives before ability, it is no small thing when a public policy chooses to listen differently. Nigeria, with its many tongues and temperaments, has long struggled with the burden of translation of names into networks, of accents into access, of origins into opportunity. Too often, the gates of progress have opened not to merit…
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From misstep to myth: Deconstructing the Türkiye spectacle –by Abayomi Ishola
Public life has a peculiar cruelty: it can seize a fleeting human slip and inflate it into a symbolic sentence. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s brief loss of balance in Türkiye has been stretched beyond proportion, transformed from a momentary physical miscalculation into a sweeping allegory of decay. In Farooq Kperogi’s rendering, gravity ceases to be physics and becomes prognosis. A…
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Tax reform is policy not politics – by Aderonke Atoyebi
Every administration is ultimately judged by its willingness to confront difficult structural problems. For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government, tax reform represents one such necessary but challenging intervention, designed not for political convenience, but for long-term national stability and economic renewal. The recent controversy surrounding the newly enacted tax laws, particularly claims of falsification and lack of transparency, deserves to…
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