By Lasisi Olagunju | “Where you have a warrior culture, you have heroes.” That is how the unusual character of Ibadan is explained on page 856 of Professor Toyin Falola’s 1,012-page history of the city. My eyes caught the line…
By Lasisi Olagunju | It was Christmas week, 2025. I knew Yuletide had its unique fragrance, but I didn’t realise surprise was part of the scent. Then, it happened. I looked round the hall. There could not have been fewer…
By Azu Ishiekwene | The short answer is yes – but there’s a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story about why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the minister of finance and coordinating minister of the…
“Even a corpse put in a coffin will defeat Tinubu in 2027.” ADC chieftain and northern politician, Buba Galadima, gave that promise at the ADC convention last Tuesday. He was wrong. The corpse, the coffin and the carpenter will be…
By Temitope Ajayi | Since bursting into national consciousness, Professor Patrick Utomi has convinced himself that he is the Nigerian equivalent of Albert Einstein, Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes rolled into one. For decades, as a public intellectual/commentator on…
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…
By Engr. (Chief) Ipigansi Okumo | There are men whose lives outlive their years because they choose to build for humanity rather than for themselves. Oronto Natei Douglas, popularly known as OND, one of Nigeria’s finest environmentalists, political activists and…
“As controversy clouds the INEC Chairman’s perceived impartiality, Nigeria confronts a deeper risk: the erosion of trust in the electoral referee itself.” By John Onyeukwu |Governance Lens | Development News Network On October 18, 2025, I wrote to an open…
By Ayo Adebusoye | Nigeria is facing a grave and escalating security crisis. From the reported closure of the U.S. Embassy in Abuja and travel restrictions across multiple states, to the tragic killing of soldiers—including a senior officer in Borno—our…
On the collapse of ethical limits, the death of shame, and the quiet normalisation of boundless impunity in Nigerian public life. “I was watching politics today yesterday, if there was any way for me to break the screen, I would’ve…
