Perspectives
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From my balcony- by Sam Kargbo
Standing upon my balcony—no ordinary balcony, but that elevated ledge of inconvenient memory from which history refuses to blink—I behold a carnival of sudden conscience. The square below is crowded with men and women freshly perfumed in the fragrance of reform. Yesterday’s custodians of iron decrees now wrap themselves in linen woven from the vocabulary of liberty. Their wrists, once…
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Aderinto: In Praise of the Queens in Fuji Kingdom (1) — by Oladeinde Olawoyin
Iyabo Alake Osanle, easily the most phenomenal female Fuji musician of the 21st century, burst onto the male-dominated Fuji scene on the cusp of the millennium with rare gusto: a microphone in hand, an all-male Fuji band, an avalanche of lewd lyrics and street slang, a croaky ‘masculine’ voice, and unconventional demeanours that challenged people’s pre-conceived notion of feminine creativity.…
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Iyabo Obasanjo and the feeble defence of constituency neglect — by Bamidele Johnson
I read, on the cable.ng, the defence mounted on behalf of Professor Iyabo Obasanjo against criticism of her indifference to the grotesque conditions in which some residents of the Lagos–Ogun boundary communities live. I admire the writer’s simplicity of language and sedate tone. But you can afford to be tranquil when you have not lived in any of those communities.…
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Weep not for Ayatollah Khamenei — by Yemi Adebowale
Back in January, blood flowed on the streets of Iran; blood of innocent young anti-government protesters. The young Iranians wanted an end to the country’s brutal Islamic government. They wanted freedom. The then Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, needed to end the protests that had dragged on for about three weeks. It could lead…
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When the pump price goes up in Tehran, we bleed in Lagos —by Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
The price of petrol in Nigeria rises with global shocks such as wars in Iran, Ukraine, and elsewhere. A war conceived in Washington and executed over the Persian Gulf now threatens Nigerians with increased costs, paid in naira and in daily hardships. Understanding this pattern is the first step to breaking it. Nigeria’s vulnerability to external shocks is not an…
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Iran’s war of the damned and shortsighted Africans — by Seun Kolade
The US-Israel-Iran war has entered its fourth day, and the world is already learning, again, how quickly “civilisation” can be peeled back to reveal the old grammar of power: intimidation, punishment, and spectacle. Saturday 28 February 2026 now stands as a turning point. On that day, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran was assassinated in a US–Israeli…
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Not by tribe, but by tactics: Disu, the pragmatic policeman — by Folorunso Adisa
“It takes a special kind of person to serve in law enforcement. Most people run from danger. Law enforcement officers run toward it.” — George H.W. Bush The romance of the uniform is easy, but the reality is not. Policing is not rhetoric but risk, hierarchy, intelligence coordination, and command discipline. At some levels, it also becomes unavoidably political. That…
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State Police : IGP Disu, take your flowers! — by Ismail Omipidan
When the immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, left office, I gathered that part of the reason he was removed was his reported opposition to the establishment of State Police. At the time, I was hesitant to buy into that narrative, largely because of certain things I knew and the complexity of the issue. However, with the inauguration of…
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Tinubu: Unique leader with penchant for rewarding talent and loyalty, by Kola Amzat
Almighty God has configured the universe, as well as human beings He deliberately created to populate it, in a way and manner that no one is imbued with capacity to ascend to prominence on his own without the intervention of a specifically assigned Angel, Prophet or a Destiny Helper. Even Abraham, the father of faith ascended to eternal glory &…
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FCCPC: Tell us, is air travel also not for the poor? — by Bola Bolawole
David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark, remember him? This man was the military governor of Niger state between 1984 and 1986 (straddling the military juntas of Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida). He, therefore, must have been a prominent member of the group that staged the coup that ousted the country’s first (though, fraudulently?) elected civilian president, Shehu Shagari, thereby truncating democracy in…
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