Perspectives
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Buhari Incarnate: Imperative to halt One-Party State, by Osita Okechukwu
These days it is rare for one to tune any of the news channels or scroll the social media and escape the ugly cacophony of voices emanating more from eminent patriots, who are bemoaning our dangerous slide into One-Party-State. One is compelled to share their apprehension, because all indications point towards that direction. For it is impossible to ignore such…
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Doyin Abiola, media trailblazer, soldier of democracy, by Bola Tinubu
I received with deep sadness the news early on Wednesday of the passing of Dr. Doyinsola Hamidat Abiola, a trailblazing journalist, editor, and former managing director of the defunct Concord Group of newspapers and wife of the late Bashorun MKO Abiola. Doyin Abiola, 82, was an Amazon and an icon in Nigerian journalism. She stayed in the journalism course since…
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Supreme Court Justices vs Concord: Why I disobeyed Doyin Abiola, by Richard Akinnola
On January 5, 1994, nine Supreme Court Justices instituted a N450 million libel suit against the Weekend Concord published by Concord Press Ltd and owned by Bashorun Abiola.This was a novel legal move in the annals of Nigeria where most of the Justices of Supreme Court would jointly file libel action against a newspaper.The Justices were: Mohammed Bello (then Chief…
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Doyin Abiola drops the pen at 82, by Adegbenro Adebanjo
Dr Doyinsola Abiola former Managing Director of the Defunct Concord Newspapers is dead.Dr Abiola wife of the late Chief MKO Abiola passed on on Tuesday August 5 at the age of 82. Profile of Doyin Abiola Nee Aboaba Doyin Abiola was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria where she earned a degree in English and Drama in 1969. After…
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Artificial Intelligence, bad actors and the future of human race, by Aderemi Ogunpitan
We are entering a turbulent period that feels like the beginning of a global dystopia. Across the world, wars, shifting power blocs, collapsing economies, and the erosion of trust in institutions, show how fragile freedom, accountability, human connection, and morality have become. AI is also impacting our world in new and consequential ways. This disarray is not caused by artificial…
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Charly Boy or Baddo bus stop: Two sides to an argument, by Bola Bolawole
“A fruit, as they say, does not fall far from its tree. And when we develop the habit, and savour the taste, of throwing ourselves into a fray, we run the risk of becoming what a judge once described as busybody and meddlesome interloper!” The raging controversy over the naming or renaming of some bus stops in Lagos is, in…
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MMIA renovation Bruhaha—what do Nigerians really want? By Tunde Moshood
When the news broke that the Federal Executive Council had approved N712 billion for the complete renovation of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Terminal 1 in Lagos, the backlash came swiftly and loudly, mostly from the comfort zones of social media. Suddenly, everyone became an infrastructure economist, a seasoned aviation planner, or worse, a self-styled corruption watchdog. But in…
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The Peter Obi vow! By Gbemiga Ogunleye
Peter Gregory Obi, former two-term Governor of Anambra State, who dazzled the country in the 2023 presidential election on the banner of the Labour Party, is on the match again! Obi, who has a foot in the Labour Party and the other in the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has promised to serve only for one term if he is elected…
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David Mark, Dele Giwa, Abiola and other stories, by Lasisi Olagunju
Who killed Dele Giwa? Who was Gloria Okon and where is she today? How did David Mark accurately predict in 1994 that Sani Abacha would spend five years in power and would attempt to contest a multi-party presidential election with only himself as candidate? Why did M. K.O. Abiola contest the 1993 election even after he had been told eight…
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El-Rufai’s hypocrisy: A failed reformer turned bitter critic, by Tayo Mabeweje
Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai’s latest tirade against the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not the voice of a patriot—it is the cry of a man consumed by bitterness and political rejection. Once paraded as a reformer, El-Rufai’s real legacy is a trail of controversies, failures, and arrogance that helped fracture the very foundations of governance he now pretends to defend. His…
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