Perspectives
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Beyond the applause: Tinubu and the Super Falcons’ reward, by Ola Belgore
In a country navigating the turbulence of bold reforms and long-overdue structural change, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent gesture to reward the Super Falcons with $100,000 (Naira equivalent) each, three-bedroom houses, and national honours has sparked a mix of celebration and criticism. But let’s step back and ask: Was it wasteful, or was it wise? The answer lies not just…
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Lagos not burning; Ojudu is fanning the flames, by Seyi Oduyela
By choosing to reduce a complex issue to yet another round of moral panic, Babafemi Ojudu does little more than stoke the very ethnic tensions he claims to decry. His article, dripping with performative concern, ends up projecting a dangerously skewed version of events in Lagos State, where nuance is abandoned for a convenient narrative: that Yoruba assertiveness is synonymous…
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Igbo vs Yoruba: When you instigate, expect us to retaliate, by Fariu Adebobajo
Senator Babafemi Ojudu’s Facebook essay, “Lagos Is Playing with Fire — And Tinubu Must Put It Out,” drapes itself in the robes of patriotism, but behind the flowing fabric lies a deeper, more troubling pattern, one that reeks of selective outrage and ideological backpedaling. For a man who built almost an entire journalistic career attacking the northern oligarchy, Ojudu’s sudden…
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The economy is rising, by Oyedeji Kayode
I just saw Nestle Plc Half Year Results. They follow the same pattern with other manufacturing Companies that have realesed interim results on the Exchange. The significance is clear. One way to gauge the performance of the economy is to analyse trends of sales of manufacturers products. Virtually, all Multinationals are back to impressive profit-making. Yes, the rise in revenue,…
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Juju’s curious case, by Bamidele Johnson
This, it is necessary to point out, is not one of the funeral rites for juju music. Juju is not dead, but it is also not exactly alive in the way we once knew it. Once upon a groove, juju was the big deal in the Yoruba soundscape. Not a big deal, but the big deal. It was never just…
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Response to Sam Amadi: The high cost of cheap ethnic rhetoric, by Bode Opeseitan
Opening Salvo: There is a peculiar madness in the way some Nigerians weaponize memory—remembering every perceived slight, yet forgetting every act of goodwill. Sam Amadi’s recent broadside against Lagos and the Yoruba people is a masterclass in this selective amnesia. It is a sermon of division draped in the robes of grievance, where half-truths masquerade as analysis and hyperbole substitutes…
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Africa at the Table, Not on the Menu, by Abbas Tajudeen
Today in Geneva, at the 6th World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments, I made a clear call: Africa, with its 1.4 billion people, must take its rightful place at the heart of global decision‑making. In this turbulent era – from climate disasters to geopolitical unrest – Africa bears the heaviest burden despite contributing the least to the crises. Yet, our…
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When the griot fell silent, by Folorunso Adisa
There are men. There are griots. And then, there was Faleti, who was both and more. Every time I encounter a poetic performance laced with linguistic precision, cultural depth, and spiritual force, I remember the one who mastered it, Adebayo Faleti. He didn’t merely write or recite; he communed with language as though it were a sacred inheritance passed down…
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Jonah Isawa Elaigwu, political science scholarship and discourse on federalism in Nigeria-By Tunji Olaopa
One of the reasons I always return to my professional starting point in the Presidency is essentially because it constituted a seminal grounding foundational space where several political, non-political and technocratic actors hammered the rehabilitation of the Nigerian state. Indeed, IBB drew into his kitchen cabinet a significant number of intellectuals from the corps of political scientists in Nigeria including…
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Nigeria’s ‘Wheat Trap’ and kangaroo food importation, by Simbo Olorunfemi
No doubt, that Nigeria is faced with an acute food crisis. A report by the Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had projected that about 20 million Nigerians will be faced with food insecurity between June and August this year. While that was explained to issues of banditry, insurgency, displacement, long-term effects of Covid-19 pandemic, high inflation and soaring commodity prices, that…
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