Perspectives
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Malami, Farouk, and question Nigeria refuses to answer, by Folorunso Fatai Adisa
Sir: In The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Armah offers one of the sharpest moral metaphors in African literature. The chichidodo, he writes, hates excrement with all its soul, yet feeds only on maggots, which thrive best in filth. It despises corruption but survives on its proceeds. That contradiction is its tragedy. It is also ours. The spread…
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Tunji Olaopa and the reimagined bureaucracy, by Paul Onomuakpokpo
When the German writer Franz Kafka directs his narrative genius at the civil service – after spending a princely part of his working life in it – he leaves us with a dark and tragic vision of a bureaucratic system inexorably trapped in detachment from its duty to serve the people. This is inevitable since in his reckoning, the system…
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Diaspora has not learned leverage, and $21 billion proves it, by Chioma Ahaghotu
The Nigerian diaspora loves to talk power, but has not learned leverage. In 2024 alone, Nigerians abroad remitted about $21 billion into the Nigerian economy. Not hypotheticals. Not projections. Real money , officially recorded, and likely undercounted. That figure is larger than Nigeria’s foreign direct investment and dwarfs many other external inflows. Yet none of this has translated into organized…
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States: The bane of the Nigerian nation, by Odi Ikpeazu
For me, one glaring sign that we are arguably not serious as a nation, is the agitation for the creation of more states. That we do not see the utter lack of need for these garrulous guzzlers of our scarce national resources, is a thing of dismay. I was watching some fat-fed politician out of the South East the other…
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How Uba Sani’s inclusive leadership is reclaiming Kaduna’s soul, by Alhassan Ibrahim
For decades, Kaduna State occupied a paradoxical space in Nigeria’s national imagination. It was at once a land of immense promise and painful contradiction: a cosmopolitan centre of culture, faith, and enterprise, yet also a theatre of recurring ethno-religious tension. The state’s diversity, rather than being harnessed as a strength, too often became a fault line. But history, as Kaduna…
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Nigeria’s Reckoning: Why peace begins where terror ends, by T.J Ishola
Nigeria stands today like an old baobab scarred by lightning—upright, stubborn, alive, yet bearing the burns of storms it did not invite. For more than a decade, insurgency and banditry have carved fear into the nation’s northern landscapes, turning farmlands into frontlines and villages into verbs of flight. What began as an eruption of extremist violence metastasised into a sprawling…
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Is President Tinubu turning Nigeria into a one-party state? By Reno Omokri
People should be careful about bandying terms that they obviously don’t understand. And one such phrase is the misuse of the term ‘one-party state’. Please fact-check me: A one-party state is a type of governance structure where only one party is legally registered by the body responsible for managing political parties and elections. The meaning could also be stretched to…
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Seyi Makinde: A tyrant masquerading as a democrat, by Olabode Opeseitan
Who is a democrat? Not the one who chants slogans or wears party colors, but the one who submits to the rule of law, respects vibrant opposition, defends free and fair elections, and protects press freedom. These are not ornaments, they are the building blocks of any real democracy. Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has recently enriched the national…
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The emergency called Christmas, by Dare Babarinsa
My cousin left Abuja last Friday at 5 a.m and reached Lagos 28 hours later at 9 a.m on Saturday. There was no accident on the way nor a vehicle breakdown. There was neither an encounter with kidnappers nor robbers. But then Kogi traffic happened. They entered Kogi traffic in the morning and did not exit until evening. There were…
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Tribute to James Abiodun Faleke at 66, by Kola Amzat
Scientifically, it’s been proven that one’s birthday has a direct relationship with how one progresses in the journey of life. It’s instructive that Hon James Faleke shares the same birthday with Lord Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our fate. The readers are at liberty to make their deductions. Of course, of millions of APC faithful and members presently…
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