Perspectives
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Ade Ori Okin, by Simbo Olorunfemi
Ascending the throne of the forefathers, as it is traditionally framed, is hardly ever straightforward among the Yorubas, even back in the day, even where ascendancy is linear and should ordinarily be straightforward. The process of appointment is sometimes visited by intrigues threatening to torpedo what was hitherto taken as settled. But it is what it is. I doubt that…
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Doris Ogala: Deserved pain of the pastor’s paramour, by Bamidele Johnson
It takes a special kind of illness, the sort that ought to qualify one for the devoted attention of senior psychiatrists, not to leap up and dance with reckless joy after watching the viral video of that woman bawling her eyes out over having been shagged for eight years by a pastor answering to the name Chris Okafor. Doris Ogala,…
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Oyebanji’s magic wand in Ekiti, by Bolanle Bolawole
It has been quite a while since I travelled in Ekiti state. I used to, on a weekly basis, between 2016 and 2018 when the then governor of the state, Peter Ayodele Fayose, extended an invitation to me. Taking off from Lagos (when the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was still a nightmare) and braving the more decrepit Ibadan – Ife – Ilesa…
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Reclaiming ungoverned spaces in the heat of a polycrisis, by Simbo Olorunfemi
We have obviously now found ourselves in that difficult place in which we are not only faced with multiple and interconnected crises, but an ever-evolving violent extremism that has been metastasing and changing form as it grows. We are faced with what suggests itself as a polycrisis, a term coined by Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern over two decades…
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On the Road to Kisumu, by Omoniyi Ibietan
My most pleasant visit to Kenya occurred last week because it was the first visa-free visit. I am so happy that President Ruto gave unequivocal expression to a concern he had raised in a video I saw two years ago where he bemoaned why an African should require a visa to visit any African country. As I write, save for…
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A necessary question: who really broke the Arewa compact? By Umar Ardo
The constant various calls for a detribalized, irreligious Arewa leadership are noble and emotionally appealing. Yet if we are serious about recovering the strategic unity exemplified by Ahmadu Bello and his team, as so severally eloquently put out, then we must be ready to confront an uncomfortable but necessary question – i.e. who initiated the religious rupture that ultimately dismantled…
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The origins of Detty December, by Ikechi Uko
Today is the birthday of the man who visioned “Detty December.” I credit four people with the success of Detty December as a tourism product. I would not discount the annual mass return of the Igbos and other people from the South who go home every December for Chrismas. But for the purpose of this tribute, I count four persons.…
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Our Ayatollah has gone mad again? By Segun Ayobolu
After what must have, for him, been a memorable spell on the stage of public prominence as Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and later Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, Malam Nasir el’Rufai went on to serve as governor of Kaduna State for eight years between 2015 and 2023. Those…
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Why young men are now running away from marriage, by Aderemi Ogunpitan
We have great conversations in our office. Its an open plan arrangement, with a high percentage of my staff GenZ. We talk about a lot of stuff. Marriage is one of them. Well, feedback is that it ain’t so sacred anymore. Or, is it that they’re scared. Well, that’s the vibe they give me. The notion of marraige as the…
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Prophets, poppycock and the media’s blind spot, by Bamidele Johnson
I am sad at how happy I am at seeing that yarmulke-donning heistmeister, Primate Ayodele, caught in the glare of embarrassment. I have wished for this moment for a long time. A man with the morality of a viper deserves no less. In fact he deserves far more. He insists he never demanded money from the Power Minister he attempted…
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