Perspectives
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 d𝗮𝘆 m𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 r𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 c𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵, by Ojudu Babafemi
Friday, October 10,2025 we buried Kenny — anally, a politician, and a woman of rare courage. Kehinde Adebowale Ajifolawe , nee Olokesusi, fondly called Kenny Ise, was a trader in Fayose Market, Ado-Ekiti. Years ago, she left for America, started a family, and somehow found herself in a situation . Life brought her back to Nigeria — separated from her…
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Comrade Abiodun Aremu, history will absolve you, by Omoniyi Ibietan
About this time 72 years ago, precisely on 16th October 1953, Fidel Castro made a speech in self-defence, titled, “History will absolve me.” It was during his trial following the attack by revolutionaries on Moncada Barracks in Santiago, Cuba. That speech would become the manifesto of the July 26th Movement. That Movement was founded on June 12, 1955 as the…
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Running riot with grey areas, by Simbo Olorunfemi
Politics Today on Channels TV last Friday. Standing in for Seun Okinbaloye was Terry Ikomi. Among the issues for discourse was the plot in America to designate Nigeria as a ‘country of concern’ on allegations of genocide. Two guests were lined up for the evening. One was Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister (1985-87). But things took a slightly…
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Oyo 2027, Adelabu, and the Emilokan mantra, by Taiwo Adisa
Sunday Tribune columnist, a modern-day philosopher in his own right, Festus Adedayo, had in his offering on August 24, 2025, asked this question: “Is Emilokan audacity or incantation ritual?” In that essay, he also went ahead to dissect the possibility of the words of candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2023 electioneering campaign carrying more than the ordinary effects. He…
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Otakikpo crude oil export terminal: A witness to history, by Temitope Ajayi
This past week, Wednesday to be precise, in Andoni, Rivers State, I was a witness to history at the grand inauguration of Green Energy’s $400 million Otakikpo Crude Oil Terminal. President Bola Tinubu was represented at the event by Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri. The Otakikpo Terminal is significant in many ways. One, it is the…
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Senator Ladoja: The uncommon Olubadan, by Tunde Rahman
The emergence of Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja as the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland on Friday, September 26, at the ancient Mapo Hall in the heart of Ibadan, is uncannily symbolic in many respects. The symbolism lies not just in the rare recurrence of the number 44 in his life’s journey—as seen in his year of birth and his position in…
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New INEC boss and Tinubu’s visibilization of northern Yorubas, by Farooq Kperogi
Everyone who is familiar with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unabashed Yorubacentricism expected him to appoint a Yoruba person to succeed Professor Mahmood Yakubu as INEC chairman. However, because, as I pointed out in my September 20 column, no president, prime minister, or head of state has ever appointed an INEC chairman from his immediate geopolitical region, Tinubu’s Yorubacentric excesses had…
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Navigating ‘conflicted’ communication cultures, by Omoniyi Ibietan
In 1977, the desire to enrich human communication experience with a modicum of fairness in the patterns of information exchange among countries, especially between the North pole and the global south, reached a tipping point when the UNESCO-backed MacBride Commission was instituted. There was an upsurge in opinion that information flow had become a ‘one-way street’ where the Northern Hemisphere…
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Revitalising Nigerian sports: A call for President Tinubu’s intervention, by Olabode Opeseitan
Mr. President, Nigerian sports are dying. They need your surgical intervention. Despite the inspiring victories of the Super Falcons and D’Tigress at continental tournaments, the broader sports ecosystem in Nigeria remains in critical condition. Our athletes train on crumbling infrastructure, wear substandard kits—as revealed by world record holder Tobi Amusan at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo—and navigate a…
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A warning to Senator Ted Cruz, by Femi Fani-Kayode
American Senator Ted Cruze is the joker of the century. He is the AIPAC-sponsored village idiot and asinine fool who says he wants to save Nigerian Christians from what he has described as ‘Christian genocide’ whilst three others, namely Congressman Riley Moore, Congressman Chris Smith and American Secretary of State Senator Marc Rubio, are his happy cheerleaders. An Israel-loving, genocide-enabling,…
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