Perspectives
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Nigeria’s 2026 budget: From repair to results? By Aderemi Ogunpitan
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2026 budget speech is more like it. It reads less like a promise and more like a reckoning. For the first time in years, a sitting President finally admits what citizens already know: reforms alone can not feed families, create jobs, or fix broken roads. Delivery does. His budget speech was never meant to be comfortable.…
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Lessons from victory, lessons for 2027, by Kashim Shettima
Politics rewards memory, and today, memory must begin with gratitude. Before we speak of maps and margins, we must acknowledge the singular role of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in building the very culture of opposition that brought us here. Long before power came calling, he stood when it was unfashionable to stand, organised when it was dangerous to organise, and…
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Buhari, Ajimobi, Makinde and Alaafin’s prayer, by Simbo Olorunfemi
Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, shared an interesting story two days ago at an event in Abuja. In 2007, Muhammadu Buhari, as ANPP Presidential Candidate, Abiola Ajimobi, ANPP Governorship Candidate in Oyo State, and Seyo Makinde, ANPP Senatorial Candidate for Oyo South paid a courtesy call on the then Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. As it’s the custom,…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: A new Awujale – same old problems, by Chris Adetayo
Succession in Yorubaland has become increasingly problematic. It took 3 years to find a successor for Alaafin Lamidi Adeyemi – with the Governor overriding traditional process and procedure to get it done. In Ogbomoso, 2 years lapsed before Oba Ghandi succeeded Oba Oyewumi Ajagungbade. Other examples abound. Now we are witnessing the unseemly drama playing out over who becomes the…
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Meteoric rise in Nigeria’s trade surplus shames the naysayers, by Olabode Opeseitan
Nigeria’s Q3 2025 trade data delivers a thunderous rebuttal to its critics: a ₦6.69 trillion surplus, 116% growth in non-oil exports, and a government actively reshaping the trade landscape through data-backed reforms. The facts are not just stubborn. They are triumphant. NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC MOMENTUM: A Data-Driven Rebuttal to Cynicism In a global economy riddled with volatility, Nigeria’s Q3 2025 trade…
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Setting the record straight on Buhari & Osinbajo’s presidential bid, by Ojudu Babafemi
Recent excerpts circulating from a book authored by Dr. Charles Omole, Muhammadu Buhari: From Soldier to Statesman, purport to recount events and attitudes within the Buhari presidency, particularly as they relate to the presidential ambition of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Because these accounts touch directly on matters I was personally and professionally involved in, I consider it necessary—indeed, a duty—to…
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Malami’s malady, by Chris Adetayo
The story of Abubakar Malami, immediate past Attorney-General, is cautionary. For 8 years, he was untouchable. His word was law. He did as he pleased. With his connivance, a Chief Justice was unceremoniously removed from office through a code of conduct tribunal whose Chairman was not fit to carry the bag of the CJN. He permitted semblance of State Police…
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Restorying ‘Ogbori Elemoso’: Oba Ghandi and Lere Paimo’s tears, by Folorunso Adisa
I have learned that there is an ongoing dispute between the legendary Baba Lere Paimo and the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi, regarding the remake of the epic movie, ‘Ogbori Elemoso.’ I hope the matter is resolved amicably. Below is the piece I wrote about the film back in 2020 REMINISCING ABOUT OGBORI ELEMOSHO Among the three literary genres, Drama…
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The Adesina-Oramah legacy: Lessons for Nigeria, by Simbo Olorunfemi and Ade Adefeko
What a year it has been for Nigeria, one that might yet go down in the country’s foreign relations history as one of the most consequential. Not since the era in which Nigeria played a frontline role in decolonising Africa and ending the ignoble reign of apartheid in South Africa, and then her defining role as the team leader of…
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Peter Obi’s 2027 declaration: timing, terrain, and the hard politics ahead, by Chioma Ahaghotu
Peter Obi has formally stated his intention to run for president again in 2027. On the surface, it sounds like continuity. In reality, it reopens unresolved questions about structure, party viability, and the shifting balance of power in Nigerian politics, questions that are now sharper than they were in 2023. This declaration does not happen in a vacuum. It lands…
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