Perspectives
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How mentorship changed my life, by Chichi Eriobu
In 2023, I had the privilege of speaking at the Global Mentorbridge Summit—and I didn’t leave the same way I came. It wasn’t just another conference. It was a room filled with clarity, honesty, and perspective—a safe space where founders, career professionals, and mentors came together to speak truth into our journeys. It reminded me of something I sometimes forget…
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The president landed at Gateway Airport, and floodgates of goodwill were opened, by Kayode Akinmade
It is a great person, say the Yoruba, that does great things. But this is also true in plurality: great people do great things. In Ogun, Nigeria’s Gateway State, the people and the government are building a prosperous future together, and Nigerians are taking ample notice. For years, the site that now hosts the airport city within which the Gateway…
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A response to Moses Ochonu on Farooq Kperogi’s Aisha Buhari apology, by Bukola Adeyemi
Dear Dr. Moses Ochonu, Your recent defense of Farooq Kperogi’s apology to Mrs. Aisha Buhari demands a blunt and honest rejoinder. You portray Kperogi’s public apology as a “humane act” and insist it was not a retraction of any falsehood. In your telling, Mr. Kperogi merely showed compassion by apologizing for publicizing a true but “sensitive” private matter, all while…
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For Aisha Buhari at a time like this, by Funke Egbemode
She was only 18 years old when she got married in 1989 to her husband who was already a national public figure. Indeed, her husband was already a former Head of State when they became husband and wife. And no, she did not marry him for money. Her grandfather, Alhaji Muhammadu Ribadu was Nigeria’s first Minister of Defence. Aisha Halilu…
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Kemi Badenoch: The intellectual dishonesty of a neo-colonial mindset in crisis, by Jide Adesina
In a world where citizenship and identity intersect with politics and personal history, few public statements reveal as much about the speaker’s inner contradictions as the recent comments by Kemi Badenoch. A figure of considerable political ascendancy within Britain’s Conservative Party, Badenoch’s claim that, as a woman, she cannot confer Nigerian citizenship on her children, stands not only as a…
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Buhari; soldier, statesman, struggler, by Dare Babarinsa
General Muhammadu Buhari lived a good life despite the struggles, the set-backs and the triumphs that attended his career. When he died on July 13, he richly deserved the eulogies that attended his passing. He also became the second Nigerian President to die abroad, joining his kinsman, President Umar Musa Yar’Adua who died in 2010. He was also a lucky…
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Humble, calm, and supportive Nana Shettima hits golden age, by Ismail Omipidan
One evening in 2011, while on a phone call with her husband, I suddenly heard him say, “Aboki na ne, gaashi ku gaisa” (It’s my friend, take the phone so you can greet him). That was the first time I ever spoke with Hajia Nana Shettima, wife of Nigeria’s Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima Today, as she marks her golden…
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Vigilance in the age of deception, by Folabi Ogunleye
Two days after he was appointed by the Tinubu Administration as chairman of the Bank of Agriculture, unverified claims emerged that Muhammad Babangida had written to reject the appointment. The claims came in the form of a well-worded letter, allegedly written by Mr. Babangida to the Nigeria presidency, declining to serve as the agency’s chairman. A supposed copy of the…
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Okpebolo’s unforced error and his critics, by Simbo Olorunfemi
There is no sugarcoating it, Governor Monday Okpebolo was out of line in declaring that if Mr Peter Obi chooses to make another visit to Edo State without clearance from him, he should take responsibility for anything that happens to him as his security cannot be guaranteed. Even if his premise might have been well founded on grounds that the…
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Farooq Kperogi’s false claims on Buhari: A moral and legal reckoning, by Bukola Adeyemi
Although Nigeria just witnessed a change of leadership and the passing of former President Muhammadu Buhari, one “columnist” has been busy peddling falsehoods and toxic commentary around these events. Dr. Farooq Kperogi – a professor of journalism turned social media provocateur – recently retracted a blatantly baseless claim about the Buhari family and offered a public apology. As one of…
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