Miscellaneous

Osun election: If you ask me…

By Maxwell Ajibola ​Walk down the bustling streets of Osogbo, stop by a local market in Gbongan, or sit under a tree with farmers in...

Who rules Osun: Wealth or words?

By Adeola Ojo ​As the harmattan haze clears and the heat of political maneuvering gives way to the countdown towards August 15, 2026, the political...

Osun 2026: The case for Bola Oyebamiji

By Adeola Ojo ​Elections in Nigeria are rarely decided by policy talk alone. They are shaped by past favours, family roots, practical needs, and what...

The Prof Bart Nnaji Book

The capacious International Conference Centre, Enugu was filled to the brim on Friday, July 17 when the Prof Bart Nnaji Birthday Symposium, “Powering Tomorrow:...

The Fragility of the Throne

By Adeola Ojo In his incisive critique, Governor Adeleke and a Tale of Three Ataojas, Tunde Odesola contrasts the storied legacy of the Osogbo throne...

Osun 2026: What does AMBO even want?

By Adebola Anifowose In the theatre of Nigerian politics, where performance often eclipses policy and personality smothers pragmatism, the candidacy of Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji...

Osun ‘26: When Pedigree Matters

By Adedamola Ayeni ​The 2026 Osun governorship election is just weeks away. Specifically, it is scheduled for August 15; and while the campaign rallies are...

Will Osun Replicate Ekiti 2026?

By Kola Odepeju Two gubernatorial elections are crucial in 2026 for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to win in the South-west. They are the Ekiti...

Osun guber: What if AMBO wins?

By Iyiola Oludotun ​As the pendulum of politics swings towards the August 15, 2026, governorship election in Osun State, the political atmosphere is charged with...

Oyebamiji: The Man, The Politics And The Aspiration

By Oluseyi Olonade Every political epoch produces individuals whose entry into the arena fundamentally alters a state’s trajectory. For Osun State, currently caught at a...

Ekiti: The Quiet Fountain

By Adeola Babajide ​As the countdown begins towards the June 20, 2026, governorship election, an unfamiliar atmosphere hangs over Ekiti State. For anyone steeped in...

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Nigerian Men and their Foreign Wives

Culturally, Nigerian men are overbearing, controlling, and paternalistic.  They relate to their fathers and mothers differently. They believe it is “a man’s world” and so they have the tendency to relegate women to subservient roles. I am stunned by the transformation Nigerian men, married to non-Nigerian women, have gone through in the United States...

Is Genevieve Nnaji Nigeria’s First Movie Superstar?

What is this Nnaji mystique that has her audience colliding heads so joyfully, crawling, craving some time in her sun? Star quality is what it is. The amount of talent dripping from her little finger is more than many of our other female leading ladies have combined...

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

Mobil’s Oily Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights

The eight-year long battle between Commandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Limited, over ownership of patent and intellectual rights to a chemical invention for offshore drilling seems in sight…

Lost in a Sea of Hair Weaves

One can understand some black women wearing wigs for the same reasons that some white women do; because they are losing or have lost their hair. One can even make allowances for wigs being worn for the occasional change of look. But how to explain young women with full heads of hair who will never be seen dead with their natural hair?