Category: Opinion

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned over the weekend, swagger intact, despite his tumble in Turkey. His face was calm; his steps steady. His left arm tucked into the left fold of his riga; his right palm expectantly popped into the waiting hands of top appointees lined up to receive him. Ministers and governors do this airport praise-and-worship ritual routinely. From the aircraft steps to his waiting car, Tinubu left no one in doubt: power, in his court, walks with a king’s gait.   ‘American Idolatry: The Worship of a President’…

One sad Monday in June last year (2025), I wrote in passing about the perils of fibroid and the ruin it does to hopes, wombs and homes. I got plenty of reactions and comments, some of them from ladies who have seen everything fibroids- with all the tears and pains.   One victim volunteered a close-up picture of her problem for me:   “You may publish,” she said.   She attached her real name to the message. I found it very surprising that she said that much. I was surprised…

The Arbiter Last week, we promised to examine the choices available to Iran and the United States, as well as how military confrontation might unfold. We also noted that Israel reportedly considered using nuclear weapons in its last war with Iran—an approach known as the Samson Option. We stated that if this had happened, or if it happens in the future, Israel would become only the second nation to use nuclear weapons in warfare, after the United States used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.   The Samson…

Subú-seré? Poetic licence gave me the indulgence of this headlining. Not even the English Language, in its pretentious globality, could capture Subú-seré. Like Shakespeare benignly prompted, I was in search of an appropriate word to capture my mind’s construct. Blank was however the wall. So I decided to stick to the word’s rendition in my native language. Subú-seré is a broad, idiomatic expression whose surface is barely scraped by words like “tumbling” or “falling”. Subú-seré cannot be captured by a single slip. It finds expression in repeated falls. It is…

Last weekend, the Elegboro of Ijebu-Jesa, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Engr.) Oba Moses Oluwafemi Agunsoye, clocked 69 years on this earth.   Born on January 24, 1957, Oba Agunsoye traded a thirty-five-year career at the Federal Ministry of Industry for the throne of his forefathers in 2017. Bringing the discipline of a mechanical engineer and the seasoned perspective of a former Director to his reign, Kabiyesi has quietly transformed our ‘Native Nazareth’ through steady, practical leadership.   Perhaps his greatest achievement, however, is the peace he has maintained. His ascension…

The recent realignment in the UK – where figures like Robert Jenrick are “uniting the right” – proves the “defection bug” is no longer a uniquely Nigerian phenomenon. It speaks to a global volatility where traditional loyalties are being tested against the need for results. For many Nigerians, this shift isn’t about lack of principle; it is about self-preservation. In a system where the Exclusive Legislative List still centralizes power, swimming against the tide has not only lost its authentic ring, it is politically unwise. Therefore, to seek a new…

A leader’s stumble is perhaps the easiest political moment to interpret and the cheapest. It demands no study of fiscal constraints, no reading of monetary transmission, no understanding of inflation dynamics, and no patience for reform sequencing. It is the politics of the eye: quick, viral, and often cruel. But philosophy begins where spectacle ends.   The first truth is basic: to be human is to be fragile. The wisest political traditions never promised invulnerability. They insisted instead that dignity lies not in the absence of weakness, but in the…

There are moments in a nation’s life when institutions are reminded—quietly but unmistakably—that time does not negotiate with comfort. Nigeria’s Senate, returning from the conviviality of Christmas recess and New Year reflection to the discipline of plenary, has arrived at such a moment. The period of acclimatization has passed. The era of testing intentions is over. What remains is a phase in which time asserts itself, when the calendar ceases to be a backdrop and becomes an active force in governance. When the President of the Senate, Godswill Obot Akpabio,…

Lest I forget to spotlight the significance of a memory. On Monday, 24th of November 2025, the Centre for Crisis Communication – a non-governmental organisation established 10 years ago to provide crisis information and communication management on national crisis, and offer knowledge-sharing services to the Nigerian security sector agencies – invited me to speak on “Strengthening Institutional and Media Capacity for Digital Crisis Communication”. The event took place at the National Defence College, Abuja.   The focus was to swivel discourses on leveraging emerging technologies to transform crisis communication but…

Today, in a moment of childlike curiosity, I found myself reading about a historical figure, Moses Orimolade, the founder of the Cherubim & Seraphim Church. What emerged was the portrait of a life rich in experience, wonder, and accounts of the miraculous, defining cosmic encounters between a mysteriously born Christian prophet and an entrenched community of idol worshippers in a place called Ikare, in what is now South West Nigeria. From those beginnings, the Cherubim and Seraphim Church movement took root. It spread across the country, carrying with it an…