Perspectives
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The head is never ordinary: Egbaliganza and the Egba language of power — by Lai Labode
A cultural note on history, symbolism, and public memory “If some saw Sparta, I saw something older: the Yoruba truth that the head is never ordinary. Our fathers did not go bareheaded into history, and we should not go bareheaded in memory. If a headgear provokes debate, let it also provoke learning — because heritage is not a museum of…
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Wigwe Estate: London properties, offshore wealth, and a family reckoning — by Kio Amachree
The late Herbert Wigwe built an empire that stretched far beyond the balance sheets of Access Bank. In death, that empire has become something else entirely: a battleground. At the center of the controversy is a startling revelation — links to more than one hundred London properties, held not in simple form, but through a maze of offshore companies and…
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How Oyebanji’s legal team boxed opposition into a corner — by Ahmed Lawal
As an observer who has been following up the legal fireworks between the legal team of Mr. Abiodun Abayomi Oyebanji and those of his challengers as the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti, the more I think of the procedural flaw of the latter, the more I resign to fate that indeed God is with Oyebanji. First,…
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A castrated bunch of frustrated clowns — by Femi Fani-Kayode
Given the fact that they have been castrated by the courts and INEC and they no longer have a party and platform to stand and run on, the Association of Destructive C*nts (ADC) now have more to worry about than Fani-Kayode and and Reno Omokri Who are the ones that have been REJECTED now??? They have been REJECTED by the…
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The ADC dispute: A courtroom battle, not a street fight — by Sunday Wale-Adeniran
It is not a social media matter, it is a matter that has been taken to a court. The real owners of ADC are aggrieved that some big men settled a few leaders of the party and those ones handed over the party to them without their consent and inclusion in the transaction. The aggrieved owners that include the only…
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Have Owanbes taken the battle for the lowest neckline too far? — by Bamidele Johnson
Someone sits across from you at an owanbe, and suddenly the laws of concentration begin to wobble and fumble. There is a special kind of chaos that belongs only to owanbe parties. Not owambe, please. It is not the chaos of poor planning or terrible music. Music is almost never the problem. From the opening praise and worship remixes to…
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Iran harbors no enmity towards other nations — by Masoud Pezeshkian
“To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life: Iran—by this very name, character, and identity—is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has…
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Nigeria’s growth crisis is a talent-allocation crisis — by Nasir El-Rufai
Nigeria is often described as a paradox. We are a nation of extraordinary human capital—energetic, inventive, resilient—yet our economic outcomes fall persistently short of our potential. Growth remains shallow, productivity weak, firms struggle to scale, and prosperity does not spread widely enough. Today, I want to advance a clear and uncomfortable proposition: Nigeria’s growth problem is not primarily a shortage…
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Middle-East crisis: How Tinubu’s policy of naira-for-crude guarantees supply security in Nigeria — by Temitope Ajayi
President Bola Tinubu demonstrated foresight in July 2024, when he approved the use of the naira as the payment currency for crude oil supplied by the NNPC to the Dangote Refinery. Since the launch of the naira-for-crude initiative on October 1, 2024, Nigeria has experienced a strategic breakthrough amid the ongoing economic turmoil resulting from the Iran-Israel-US conflict in the…
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Tinubu at 74: Gesture, grit and the politics of perception — by Magnus Onyibe
President Bola Tinubu marked his 74th birthday with a move that startled admirers and unsettled critics: he pledged his entire presidential salary since assuming office on May 29, 2023, as seed capital for a fund to support families of security personnel who lose their lives defending Nigeria. At a time when insecurity remains a defining national challenge, the symbolism is…
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