Perspectives
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Nigeria’s corruption problem begins beyond its leaders — by Folabi Ogunleye
In conversations about corruption in Nigeria, there is a familiar tendency to point upward, in a manner that locates the problem in powerful men and reduce a complex national condition to the moral failures of a few individuals. Figures like James Ibori and Sani Abacha are often invoked as shorthand for this dysfunction, or as symbols of excess, impunity, and…
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Onoruwo ibn Ambali: The garri trafficker at 60 — by Bamidele Johnson
While having a lazy Sunday morning four years ago, I got a call from Onoruwo ibn Ambali of Okeliwo AKA Wale Adedayo. He sounded urgent. Very urgent. “Ogbologbo, nibo lo wa?” he asked. Home. In bed. “Ipata, o kuku ni lo si church,” he said, mocking my well-established church avoidance. The levity lowered my guard. I had thought something serious…
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Mike Adenuga: The iroko that casts no shadow twice — by Olabode Opeseitan
In the hush of April 29, 2026, as Mike Adenuga turns 73, Nigeria does not merely mark a birthday, it contemplates a phenomenon.His story has long escaped the confines of biography. What do you say of a man who built a telecom and energy empire while speaking so sparingly in public that each utterance becomes an event? Yes, there was…
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Yemi Osinbajo and the prosperity gospel — by Deji Yesufu
The day is Sunday, 5th March, 2026. The venue is the Rock of Ages Christian Assembly in Benin, Edo State. The preacher is Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the former Vice President of Nigeria under the Muhammadu Buhari administration, which led the country from 2015 until 2023. Yemi Osinbajo also contested the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primaries in 2023, in which…
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Abuja: Why are the Americans running? — by Lasisi Olagunju
War commanders die cheap deaths; farmers are murdered on their farms, traders in their shops, landlords vanish on their lands, tenants in their rented rooms; students abducted from their studies. What more must happen before we become what Italians would call “Paese dei Morti” (Country of the Dead)? When I read last Thursday that the United States had asked all…
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From iyan to adire — by Sam Omatseye
It was a sultry afternoon in Abeokuta and Olusegun Obasanjo was glowing in an adire outfit belonging to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Imagine that? No, you saw it. The fabric owned his body, its simple grandness wrapping his septuagenarian shape. He did not just don it, it adorned him. It invested him with a sort of imperious dignity. Obasanjo was not…
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Iran war: Israel has achieved historic accomplishments — by Benjamin Netanyahu
“Dear citizens of Israel, my brothers and sisters, the campaign is not yet over, but even now it can be clearly stated – we have achieved historic accomplishments. I want you to remember where we were: Iran tried to squeeze us in a stranglehold; Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad regime in Syria, the militias in Iraq, the…
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Why Peter Obi should never be Nigeria’s president — by Kio Amachree
Let me be clear about where I stand. I am not a man who courts public approval. I say what I believe, I stand by the evidence, and I have no political debts to settle. I want an Igbo president of Nigeria. I want it genuinely, and I believe the Southeast has waited long enough for its rightful place at…
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ADC: The ‘black market’ Atiku and others bought — by Bola Bolawole
Countdown to the 2015 presidential election, I belonged to a group that brainstormed on who to vote for: the sitting president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, or his challenger, retired General Muhammadu Buhari? Jonathan’s performance in office had been abysmally poor. The tag of a clueless and corrupt government, which the All Progressives Congress, a newly-formed opposition party, pinned on Jonathan and…
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Chido, a man of organisation — by Femi Falana
Since his days as an undergraduate at the University of Calabar, Chido has been consistently an organizational man. A well-organised personality, Chido is skillful in making decisive contributions to ensure the success of any organisation to which he may belong or support. So the attributes that friends, associates, and comrades may now notice in Chido’s persona at 60 have been…
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