Perspectives
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When home becomes a punchline: Kemi Badenoch and the politics of disavowal, by Folorunso Fatai Adisa
“I went to a secondary school. It was called a Federal Government Girls School in a place called Sagamu, and that was like being in prison.” – Kemi Badenoch Kemi Badenoch has made a habit (indeed, a politics) of narrating Nigeria as a failed origin story. In doing so, she weaponises personal discomfort as public evidence, turning her own biography…
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The impossibility of telling Igbos to leave Lagos, by Tunde Olaoye
Anybody saying all Igbos should leave Lagos is unrealistic, it is absolutely impossible. How can we say Jude Chukwuka that is one of the hottest MCs at Yorùbá heritage festivals leave? It is any Igbo, Yorùbá, Ijaw, Hausa, Edo etc that is always complaining, hating and denigrating Lagos that should be advised to leave. If the place doesn’t pay anyone,…
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Kano State Climate Change Policy: A breath of fresh air or another paper tiger? By Fatima Damagum
When the Kano State Government recently launched its Climate Change Policy and Environmental Pollution and Waste Control Regulations (2025), it felt like a long-overdue sigh of relief. For once, environmental health, something that has been choking (pun intended) under the weight of burning plastic, clogged drains, and unplanned urban sprawl, got a seat at the table. A well-scrubbed, government-approved, officially-launched…
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Ahmadu Bello children’s territorial politics, by Festus Adedayo
There was territorial tension in Nigeria last week. Like in the famous fable where animals gathered in the forest to delineate their individual boundaries, last Tuesday, Northern Nigeria regrouped in Kaduna in aid of its territory. Western Nigeria Awurebe music lord, Late Ibadan, Oyo State-born Dauda Epo Akara, has the patent of a folklore that captures this fictional animal gathering.…
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Why Bago was endorsed at the expanded APC caucus meeting, by Abdullberqy Ebbo
In Niger State politics, and indeed the nation as a whole, political and second-term endorsements are often treated as ceremonial nods and ritualistic formalities driven by the client-patron-network system, political experience, or even unspoken deals. Rarely do you find these firmly rooted in genuine acknowledgment of performance or excellence. In Niger State, that wasn’t the case when the endorsement of…
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Yilwatda’s strategic election and the daunting task ahead, by Tunde Rahman
Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda may not roll easily off the tongue or be instantly recognisable to many Nigerians. Its provenance is the Ngas ethnic stock, also known as Angas, in Plateau State, which produced the late Joseph Gomwalk, the first military governor of the defunct Benue-Plateau State. Yilwatda hails from Dungung, Kanke Local Government Area of Plateau. Although Yilwatda, the newly-elected…
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Lest we forget! Professor Chinwe Christie Achebe is 90, by Omoniyi Ibietan
Professor Chinwe Achebe is a scholar through and through, educator and great teacher who left her mark in many citadels of learning, particularly Queens College, Lagos, University of London and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Not many people know how much this woman has offered humanity and quite charitably. She seems perpetually tied to the strings of her inimitable, iconic husband,…
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Monitization wahala: Why Nigerian Facebook views pay pennies, by Chioma Ahaghotu
A Nigerian content creator can pull 1 million views on Facebook or YouTube and still make less than an American creator with 50,000 views. Sounds unfair, right? But here’s the truth no one tells you: not all views are equal. Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok don’t pay you just for the number of people who watch your…
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Ekiti: Before we crucify Oyebanji, by Ismail Omipidan
I have only met him once, and I am not sure he knows me. Therefore, this intervention is being made as part of my efforts to contribute to political discourse by promoting accurate information and countering the spread of unverified claims, half-truths, and propaganda. Lately, I’ve come across a series of narratives suggesting that there are plots to edge Dr.…
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Aproko Doctor and the genetically modified gospel of convenience, by Akin Olaniyan
There is no way we can know everything but at least, when it comes to social media, we know that the most harmful lies are disguised in slick but poisonous bottles of certainty – pushed by smiling charlatans pretending to be specialists. You see them mostly in dumbed-down videos with every inconvenient nuance edited out, just for one purpose –…
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