Perspectives
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10 reasons why Peter Obi needs a strategy if winning in 2027 is the actual goal, by Chioma Ahaghotu
Fans don’t interrogate blind spotsObidients are emotionally invested. That emotional attachment makes it hard to admit weaknesses in messaging, alliances, or voter appeal. Strategy requires people who can say “this won’t work” without fear of being labeled enemies. Strategy needs realism, not vibesWinning elections is not about moral superiority or Twitter applause. It’s about numbers, turnout, geography, incentives, and trade-offs.…
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Dirty Christmas, Ini Edo, and CAN censorship of creativity, by Leke Alder
I don’t know Ini Edo. I’ve never met her. What I do know about her is that she’s an accomplished auteur who has paid her dues and has now produced a movie allegedly banned by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). I hope this is not so because it takes Christianity back to the 7th century. Indeed, it is not…
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Dangotes allegation: Why is Farouk Ahmed silent on the corruption claims, by Yushau Shuaib
When a billionaire suddenly becomes an overnight anti-corruption crusader, one should pause. Not because activism is wrong, but because power rarely moves without an agenda. In Nigeria’s oil sector—where money, regulation, and influence intersect—nothing happens in isolation. I was drawn into this debate long before the current drama peaked. In July 2024, during the first public clash between Alhaji Aliko…
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TRIBUTE: John Ajayi: When death hit below the belt, by Raheem Akingbolu
It was John Donne, the poet, that once said: “Every death diminishes me because I am involved in humanity.” The death of John Olulope Ajayi, the one I used to nomenclature ‘Egbon John’, did not diminish me. It reduced me. Ironically, it did not reduce me physically because my physique has not changed but my inner strength has taken a…
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Striking a balance between food supply and farmers income, by Kayode Oyedeji
Food Inflation fell from 39.93% in 2024 to 11.08% in 2025, a remarkable and gladdening feat. However, this has sparked debates on likely impact on farmers profitability in view of goverment’s flexibility to food supply. Policies have consequences. When you raise tax or reduce tax, there are consequences. When you increase or reduce tariff, there are consequences. Polxy makers do…
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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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