Perspectives
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The Lagos–Calabar coastal road: something great and transformational, by Segun Showunmi
The world has always run on an immutable order, one generation works tirelessly while the next reaps the harvest, for good or for ill. Humanity lives in a perpetual cycle of seedtime and harvest. Yesterday’s labour becomes today’s foundation, and today’s effort becomes tomorrow’s blessing. With this truth in mind, I joined the Minister of Works, Senator Dave Umahi, to…
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Is the Nigerian media too busy chasing politicians to notice we’re being poisoned? By Akin Olaniyan
A friend shared a TikTok video with me and I was shocked it showed The New York Times obviously investigated a story that should concern us. It confirms something Global automakers knew for nearly three decades – that their lead battery recycling chain was polluting communities. Now, OUR OWN Ogijo in Lagos State is sufferinng! The report found that up…
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Awolowo returns to Ife in bronze and glory, by Ojudu Babafemi
Friday, December 5,2025, was a remarkable day in Ile-Ife. A befitting and imposing statue of Chief Obafemi Awolowo was unveiled at a strategic location on the campus of the Obafemi Awolowo University, the great institution that bears his name and which he conceived. Standing with quiet authority behind the architectural masterpiece known as Oduduwa Hall, the statue faces the iconic…
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Time to fish out the non-Fulani bandits in our midst, by Vincent Akanmode
Nothing can be more cheering than the news that after the initial dust raised by President Donald Trump’s threat to invade Nigeria with American soldiers gun-a-blazing, the United States of America is willing and ready to work with the Nigerian government in the effort to read our country of Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits and other terrorist groups responsible for the…
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How American billionaire named Nigeria most attractive investment destination, by Olabode Opeseitan
One of the most unmistakable traits of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is his energy. Not the kind that flickers and fades, but the kind that fills a room, charges the air, and makes even the skeptical lean in. Boris is what you call the life wire of a gathering. A super spark. A man who ignites conversations with…
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Oyetola vs Omisore: There is always a tomorrow, by Ismail Omipidan
I have, for a long time, refrained from intervening in the ongoing roforofo fight between the camps of my former principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, and his now-estranged political ally, Senator Iyiola Omisore. However, after reading certain planted stories now being amplified by Omisore’s supporters, I felt compelled to do this intervention. Both parties may not like some of the things I…
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The square peg in the square hole, by Bolaji Adebiyi
No appointment in recent memory has gained as much widespread acceptance as that of Chris Musa, the new Minister of Defence-designate, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Even the most sworn adversary of President Bola Tinubu could not resist the urge to applaud his nomination of Christopher Musa, the eloquent Army general and immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, to fill the vacant…
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Obasanjo: Anathema to successive governments, by Kola Amzat
Since curtain were drawn on ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo’s two-term tenures in Year 2007, he has chosen another role for himself: denigrating, demeaning, derogating, embarrassing and humiliating all presidents that emerged after him, as well as attacking their policies, with a view to always holding himself out as the best president that ever happened to Nigeria. Obasanjo arrogantly moves about as…
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What really happened the night before the 2019 Oyo State gubernatorial election, by Mogaji Arisekola
After the APC primary that served Olasunkanmi Tegbe an unpalatable political breakfast, Baba Isa Funtua urgently summoned an APC stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja. At that tense gathering, he implored all candidates to rally behind the party’s governorship flagbearer, Chief Bayo Adelabu. But curiously—and suspiciously—the incumbent governor, Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi, was nowhere to be found. I was instructed to call…
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Omoyele Sowore, the marathon man, by Simbo Olorunfemi
For Omoyele Sowore, it has been a long, long race, an unending marathon of sprints and marathon of struggles, a life-long commitment to Activism. Since he set his foot on the track about 30 years ago, it has been a marathon for Omoyele. Looks like he might have, early on, taken the Mandela vow to make the struggle the centrepiece…
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