Perspectives
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Building future generations: the three black professors making us proud, By Strive Masiyiwa
Today I wanted to say congratulations to three esteemed Black African intellectuals: my friend Prof Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, and Prof Kwame Anthony Appiah. Last week they each received honorary degrees from University of Cambridge in the UK (one of the highest that the University can bestow) for outstanding achievement in their fields. Both Professor Appiah…
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The cottage industry ‘bring Tinubu down’ is becoming comical, Wale Alonge
It is so comical to see how much energy and bandwidth are being dissipated on social media on the most trivial and most inconsequential issue that has zero impact on the crushing problems that confront common everyday Nigerian. Rather than focus on the existential structural problem of a center-heavy unitary system that is crushing our country’s future, and working out…
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Letter to Osun young minds, By Ismail Omipidan
It is 18 days to the Osun governorship election. Have you got your PVC? Well, I just got mine. Before I came to Osun in 2019, I had worked in Kaduna, Maiduguri, Abuja and Lagos in that order. My principal too had distinguished himself credibly well before emerging governor in 2018. Will it therefore be wise to try someone who…
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For Osundare, literary acolytes rise to meet the rocks, By Akeem Lasisi
The legendary rocks, waterfalls and other icons of Ekiti must be in an elated mood today as they receive friends, associates, students and mentees of their great son, Professor Niyi Osundare. It is at the 2022 edition of the Niyi Osundare Poetry Festival, holding at Fountain Hotel, Ado Ekiti. The legends – the likes of the Orole and Olosunta hills;…
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Opinion: Desperation to halt Tinubu’s march to Aso Villa, By Kola Amzat
Contained in the political hatchet-men ‘out of date’ Armory are sets of ‘old fashioned’ Arsenals which they unleash from time to time to gauge the mood of the nation and with the sole objective of undermining and railroading Bola Tinubu presidency project. They gullibly lay ambush to release a new weapon as soon as they realize that the one earlier…
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Archbishop Ladigbolu: From Pulpit to the Throne? By Temitope Ajayi
I have seen some media reports that suggest retired Methodist Church Archbishop, Ayo Ladigbolu is in the race to be the next Alaafin of Oyo. This is quite an interesting twist in the race of who succeeds the late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. I have always been enamored by the active involvement of Bishop Ladigbolu with leaders across the country and…
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If Lee Kuan Yew was a Nigerian, By Tope Fasua
Nigerians like to quote Lee Kuan Yew and the successes of Singapore ad nauseum. Every seminar is replete with quotes from the gentleman. Every Nigerian loves to brag about having read his fat book, From Third World to First. And the more cerebral ones will tell of his references to Nigeria in 1961 as a nation that was unlikely to…
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Nigeria, Ekweremadu, hypocrisy and kidney failures, By Seth Akintoye
Kidney diseases and failures are one illness that I will not imagine my enemy to have. It will drain all your resources and at the end the patient will still die! At The Guardian on Sunday, I did a story on the epidemic of kidney failures in Nigeria over 20 years ago. It was a front page story; in fact,…
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Dealing with Peter Obi’s pandemic of distortions, By Olabode Opeseitan
It is time for Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party to pause and ask if he is deliberately distorting facts to feed gullible Nigerians with false information to win their hearts and gain their confidence or if the misrepresented facts he has continued to use are genuine mistakes he urgently needs to fix. In the context of…
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NIGERIA: Deliver us from restless idealism, By Folabi Ogunleye
Look ehn, me, the people I dread the most to be in positions of power are the barely tested talkers – including the ones who spend more time going on about what is wrong than what, specifically, they will do to fix what is wrong. It is worse when these people are lone-rangers who have no established support system of…
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