Perspectives
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Rufai Oseni/Peter Obi Interview: My nominee for 2026 Oscar Award – by Seye Oladejo
I had always assumed that the finest dramatic performances were the exclusive preserve of Hollywood. However, after watching the recent interview between Rufai Oseni and Mr. Peter Obi on Arise Television, I may have just found my nominee for the 2026 Oscar Award. Please note that the suggestion of the Oscar award is deliberate since Mr. Peter Obi is obsessed…
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Kanu’s life conviction: Obi’s hypocrisy and desperation for power, by Kola Amzat
While preparing for 2023 presidential elections, Peter Obi-the then LP party presidential candidate anchored his electioneering campaign on two major manifestoes-religious sentiments and ethnicity. Indeed, his campaign was hugely rooted in ethnic-centric campaign, heavily relying on regional markets and Igbo-dominated areas. He devoted much effort to tribal sentiment. He also treated the election as a “religious war”, overtly or subtly…
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Why the centre-states’ partnership and alignment matter — by Tunde Rahman
Twenty-seven years into unbroken democracy, Nigeria’s federal structure remains our best tool for managing diversity and delivering development. But federalism is neither a contest between Abuja and the sub-nationals, nor is it a zero-sum competition for relevance. It is a covenant, an agreement to work together – keep some powers and grant some others to the central government for proper…
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FILM REVIEW: The Polygamist’s Gomorrah — by Folorunso Adisa
Broken hearts. Broken lives. Shattered homes. Fractured families. At the centre of it all stood one man whose unbridled carnal appetites proved larger than his wisdom. Jonasi’s greatest tragic flaws were his abundance of Rand and his insatiable desire for women. He believed money could purchase anything he wanted, especially affection wrapped in feminine form. To him, every child born…
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Funeral rites in Igbo tradition — by Kelechi Deca
One of the most teary aspect of the modern day apostles of traditional revivalism in Igboland is that it is driven mostly by arrogant ignorance. Tellingly, a culture that does not adapt is a culture that is dead. But a culture that abandons its core is a culture that has been conquered. Dynamism, therefore, is the Igbo way of life:…
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Babajide Sanwo-Olu: Thank you for not dropping the ball — by Azuh Arinze
Leadership is often a relay race. And the true measure of a leader, as a matter of fact, is not merely how fast he runs his own lap, but how effectively he receives the baton, preserves momentum, and passes it on stronger than he found it. In Lagos State, Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has demonstrated this principle with remarkable consistency,…
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Infrastructural development: How Tinubu is transforming the South-East — by Babajide Fadoju
For decades, the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria has worn the heavy cloak of marginalisation. It has been a narrative repeated in town hall meetings, on radio call-in programmes, and in the corridors of power. The region that gave Nigeria its first indigenous President, its most renowned industrialists, and some of its finest intellectuals has, paradoxically, often complained of being…
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How to move Nigeria from stabilisation to transformation — by Olufemi Awoyemi
The direction of travel is real, but so are the household pain and fears. This now appears existential to a growing number of citizens, and this is not helped by growing ‘NOISE’ getting in the way more than the govt would like, I suppose. This reality cannot be dismissed, explained away, or buried beneath the language of macroeconomic success. As…
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How Ibadan raised a king for Oke-Ila Orangun — by Tunji Oladejo
Can you believe it that Ibadan raised a king for Oke-Ila Orangun? Kabiyesi Oba Adedokun Abolarin, Aroyinkeye 1, the Orangun of Oke-Ila, last week, recounted this story to me, “Ibadan raised me”. But wait a bit. Let me preface the story this way: how lbadan raised a king for Oke-Ila Orangun. On April 3, this year, I published a piece…
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How South Africa’s xenophobic online machine was rebooted in 2026
South Africa’s latest wave of xenophobic mobilisation did not begin with a political speech or a major violent incident. It began with a missing-person campaign. Yet this resurgence would not have been possible without the groundwork laid by a movement that has spent the past six years building audiences, networks and narratives around anti-immigrant mobilisation, dating back to the emergence…
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