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President Tinubu’s Recent Lines of War

President Bola Tinubu recently set Nigeria’s political spaces on fire by declaring that “all is fair in politics”. According to the president, killing, cheating,...

Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀ and the raw reality of politics (2)

As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, “A hungry man is not a free man.” This truth conveniently haunts our troubled polity, where politicians tend...

The FG’s $3.05 Billion Poverty Reduction Plan

Poverty is arguably Nigeria’s biggest nemesis, closely followed by systemic corruption and insecurity. Regrettably, the country’s poverty is self-inflicted. There are countries in the...

Tinubu, the Young Turks and fresh thinking

When dispassionate commentaries are made by independent analysts in the fullness of time about the Tinubu presidency, a striking reality will emerge: he infused...

Nigeria: Legitimizing Terrorism and Banditry?

Many things in life defy comprehension, rationality, or basic explanation. Certain enigmas defy solution, no matter how hard one tries to understand them. Sometimes,...

Goodluck, BAO!

By Tunji Ayoola As Ekiti State prepares to vote this Saturday, the upcoming governorship election is a simple test of what we all now call...

When A Nation Cannot Protect Its Protectors

By any objective measure, the death of a military officer in battle is a national tragedy. But when senior commanders begin to fall with...

Echoes from Ekiti, lifelines in Osun

With growing doubts about the efficacy of institutions in Nigeria, it is very important to use scenario-planning to forecast the reactions to unfolding events,...

Osun 2026: Beyond the Defection Hype

By Tunde Ilesanmi ​The upcoming August 15, 2026, governorship election in Osun State is a straight battle between two completely different styles: a solid, well-organized...

Tinubu Should Resign Immediately

In the title of this essay, I have dutifully borrowed a leaf from President Bola Tinubu, who, on November 6, 2014, through his official...

Corruption Bazaar In Democracy

It is fake news that Nigeria is practising democracy. What happens in the so-called Giant of Africa is lootocracy. The looting bazaar going on 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?