Perspectives
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Christmas in Mbaise, by Emeka Oparah
Being that it was their first time ever travelling to our hometown, Tito and Muna were understandably more excited than us, their parents. We had prepared their minds for what they were about to experience, and they were super ready for it. Every street is not paved with gold, like Dubai, where we live, and the US, UK and other…
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Biodun Shobanjo: The Railway Boy at 80, by Simbo Olorunfemi and Ade Adefeko
There is a video clip of Biodun Shobanjo on social media platforms that has since gone viral, in which he talks about his love for the contemporary music (Afrobeat, as they call it) of Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, and the rest of the gang. With that Shobanjo-esque boyish grin, he tells how shocked some of his friends were to hear…
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Tinubu’s audacious 2025 appropriation bill, by Kola Amzat
It’s an ambitious figure of N49.7 trillion and could only emanates from a visionary and transformational mind. In the country annals, the budget remains the highest. Indeed, the budget completely overwhelmed that of immediate past year figure of N28.78 trillion by whopping N19.12 trillion (65per cent), considered then, unworkable and most unrealistic by the feeble minds. Meanwhile, the daring 2025…
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Dele Farotimi: Pity rights activist, pity Nigeria, by Dayo Thomas
The case of Dele Farotimi and Aare Afe Babalola is indeed a disturbing example of how state power can be misused to persecute individuals who dare to challenge powerful people in Nigeria. This case involves a dispute between Dele Farotimi and Afe Babalola, with Farotimi accusing Babalola of exerting corrupt influence over the Nigerian judiciary. The situation escalated with Farotimi…
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Sylvester Oromoni: Time to unleash the deities — by Innocent Raphael
Lord! Sometimes, I sit and wonder why Africa, particularly Nigeria, has so many unresolved murder and crime cases. In 2005, I watched a Nollywood movie about a young man who was beaten to death by a village clique jealous of his progress. His family, knowing he hadn’t died naturally, buried him with a machete and enlisted the help of a…
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Embracing Tax Reform: A Call to action for Nigeria’s Youth, by Dare Ojepe
At this significant crossroads, the future prosperity of Nigeria heavily relies on visionary reforms and active civic participation. One such critical reform, currently being pursued by President Bola Tinubu, involves the restructuring of our nation’s tax system—a move that promises to lay the foundation for sustainable economic growth and enhanced socio-economic equity. Let us begin with the essence of the…
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Afe Babalola and Dele Farotimi: On Justice, a Just Society and the Nigerian State, by Tunji Olaopa
The feud between elder statesman, Chief Afe Babalola and civil right activist, Mr. Dele Farotimi, is perhaps the most significant discourse that postcolonial Nigerian state has thrown up for the moment, one in a class of those grand defining disputations that sure will gather dust which will take some time to abate. And it is one case that is fraught…
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Celebrating Oyebanji, the People’s Governor at 57, by Yinka Oyebode
Two major events that happened at two different locations in Ekiti State earlier in the month, again laid credence to the primacy of capacity, character and compassion in the leadership style of Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji. First was the event at Oke Ako Ekiti, in the north senatorial district, which featured the distribution of cheques totalling N160 million…
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Femi Adesina’s submission on Buhari’s unwillingness to remove fuel subsidy: hypocrisy at highest level
While paying tribute to his boss-ex President Muhmmadu Buhari during his 82nd Birthday Anniversary Ceremony a couple of days ago, renowned Journalist and former Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the president, Femi Adesina exuberantly submitted that the retired general opted to continue with the regime of oil-subsidy, justifying this claim essentially on his boss love for the “poor and…
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Re: Death by hanging for stealing fowl
Upholding the Integrity of the Judiciary and Setting the Record Straight on the Conviction of Olowookere Segun and Morakinyo Sunday By Akinwole Olasubomi A. The Osun State Government’s recent consideration of the prerogative of mercy for convicted individuals has drawn significant attention and have invariably stirred public opinion based on incomplete or misleading narratives. While this action demonstrates the government’s…
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