Perspectives
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After the ballots: Blood in Irewole as politics turns to thuggery — by Kazeem Tiamiyu
IKIRE, Irewole LGA — The banners have come down. The campaign vans are parked. The election is over.But in Irewole Local Government Area of Osun State, with Ikire town as its headquarters, the war is not. Three days after results were announced, the smell of burnt tires and the silence of closed shops still hang over parts of Ikire and…
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Bonga South West and Atiku’s desperate subsidy games — by Michael Chibuzo
ADC presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar kicked off his 7th presidential campaign by attempting to make fuel subsidy the central theme of the 2027 general election. He declared that if elected, he would restore fuel subsidy despite earlier promising to remove subsidy during the 2023 campaign season. Of course, this bizzare proclamation elicited instant reactions from every quarters including the President,…
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Did Babajide Kolade-Otitoju lie? — by Simbo Olorunfemi
I have been busy offline for quite a bit, but not to the point of not noticing the concerted efforts in the last week or two by an online group to muzzle, cancel, bully or intimidate Babajide Kolade-otitoju. Predictably, that was largely instigated by that TV Anchor of particular concern whose umbilical cord is apparently tied to the fickleness and…
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Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III at 70: The authority of restraint — by Samuel Aruwan
There are leaders who enter a room determined to be heard, and there are leaders whose presence settles the room before they have spoken. His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, belongs to the latter tradition. His authority has never depended on noise. It rests on composure, judgement and the difficult discipline of knowing when a…
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Who’s afraid of Ede? — by Tunde Akanni
“E lo f’okan bale”, President Tinubu keeps reassuring the nation. And truly, Ede people really are at peace. Victory is sweet, so sweet. Ede will surely rejoice with you once it’s your turn. But for what appears to be the infectious tendency of Edephobia tragically exhibited by a retired professor, this intervention would have been shelved. The professor is an…
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Why is Ojudu still fixated on APC and not his Ekiti cassava farm? — by Kehinde Fasuru
From the first pair of milk teeth to attempting the initial baby steps, the next skill a baby soon develops to communicate is getting cranky and throwing tantrums, obviously to get the mother’s attention whenever desired. But give the baby a pacifier and it quickly gets quiet and contented, sucking away at the toy. It is perhaps the earliest form…
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The sex economy of Nigeria — by Abolaji Rasaq
Nigerians love sex. Sex is our national indulgence, the one appetite poverty never killed. If anything, poverty feeds it. Down on the street, sex is cheap. But climb the ladder, and the price flips. Up top, sex stops being cheap and becomes very expensive. It is expensive because reputation is involved, and reputation in Nigeria is gold. A senator’s reputation.…
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The Three Musketeers and the Lone Ranger: The two greatest African families — by Ben Murray-Bruce
There is a scene I return to more often than I should. Gilbert’s house in Beverly Hills. One of those evenings where the guest list is the story. Standing in front of my host, waiting patiently for a word, is a mayor of a city. And pressed to my host’s ear is a telephone, and on the other end of…
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Good morning, Tony — by Lanre Ogundipe
Sometimes a nation’s cultural argument hides inside a sentence as ordinary as “Good morning, Tony.” That was all it took for a young graduate trainee at the United Bank for Africa’s Graduate Management Accelerated Programme graduation ceremony in Lagos to find herself at the centre of a national argument about respect, corporate culture, Western influence and the changing language of…
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Beyond elections: Why Osun must now unite behind Governor Adeleke for progress — by Kazeem Tiamiyu
Election has come and gone in Osun State. The ballots have been counted, winners have emerged, and the dust of campaign rhetoric is gradually settling. But while politics is seasonal, governance is constant. The real work — the work of building schools, paying salaries, fixing roads, and improving the quality of life for 4.7 million Osun people — has only…
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