Perspectives
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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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Atiku’s subsidy u-turn: The bankruptcy of desperate ambition — by Sunday Dare
In the architecture of modern political opportunism, few spectacles rival the breathtaking hypocrisy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s recent policy pivot. To watch a self-styled statesman—who less than four years ago cast himself as an uncompromising apostle of market-driven reform—scramble to promise the reintroduction of petrol subsidies is nothing short of political apostasy. This isn’t merely a tactical policy disagreement; it…
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Apo-Karshi Road to open in December after 15-year delay, says Wike
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has assured residents that the long-delayed Apo-Karshi Road will be completed by November and inaugurated in December. Wike gave the assurance on Saturday in Abuja after inspecting the progress of work on the 13.5-kilometre Apo-Karshi Road and the 14-kilometre Bwari-Kubwa Road. He said the Apo-Karshi Road, originally awarded under a…
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Osun polls: The days after and implications for 2027 — by Tunde Rahman
Osun State woke up last Sunday with the same government it went to bed with: that of Governor Ademola Adeleke. With Adeleke’s victory in the August 15 election, the opposition may be having a new talking point for 2027. The governor ran on the Accord Party platform, polling 511,067 votes to defeat his main challenger, Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji of…
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How Atiku Abubakar wants to bring back the ‘scam’ he promised to destroy! — by Dada Olusegun
Just days ago, former Vice President and the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar took to Facebook Live and dropped a bombshell where he promises to restore the petrol subsidy if he wins the 2027 presidency. On the surface, it sounds like he cares about the hardship of Nigerians. But if you look at his actual track…
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Steve Osuji: Let us debate the law, not attack my personality — by Monday Ubani
I have read Steve Osuji’s Expresso column titled, “Monday Ubani: Gani Fawehinmi Is Weeping In His Grave!” I am compelled to respond, not because criticism of me is forbidden, but because the column grossly misrepresents my legal argument and proceeds to attack a position I did not take. My position was simple, clear and founded on my understanding of the…
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Tinubu’s flourishing stats still not touching cost of living — by Yemi Adebowale
Last Wednesday in Abuja, the Finance Minister/Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, spent hours lecturing Nigerians on the positives from the over three years of sweeping economic reforms by the Tinubu government. It was during the presentation of President Tinubu’s “Reform Scorecard: The Benefits, Costs and Harm Prevented.” As usual, the flourish stats poured. The biggest was that the…
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Farooq Kperogi and the economics of Atiku’s subsidy dream — by Kayode Adebiyi
Farooq Kperogi is right about one thing: Atiku Abubakar’s obsession with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s old forfeiture controversy and the Chicago State University saga has yielded diminishing political returns. Nigerians have heard these arguments repeatedly, and neither controversy addresses the economic reality confronting households today. But Kperogi makes a serious analytical mistake when he moves from that legitimate observation to…
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