Category: Opinion

By Taiwo Adisa If you check out the decibels of noise politicians have generated around the 2027 election right from mid last year, you will think that by now the streets would be bursting with campaign activities, to the extent that normal day-to-day living would have been suffocating, especially in the main cities. But here […]

By Steve Otaloro The release of the final list of candidates by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is an important milestone in our preparations for the 2027 general elections. As expected in a democracy, we have seen individuals who previously belonged to the All Progressives Congress (APC), or who contested the party’s internal nomination […]

Immediate former JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede By Farooq A. Kperogi I didn’t get a chance to write a retrospective evaluation of Professor  Ishaq Oloyede’s tenure as JAMB registrar when most people did after his departure in July because the time of his exit competed with more pressing national discourses that invited my intervention. But […]

By Martins Oloja ‘A Card Smaller Than Your ATM, Stronger Than Their War Chest’ In January 2023, I wrote a piece in this same “Inside Stuff” column titled “Your PVC is your power of mass destruction.” I was not calling for violence. I was calling for votes. I argued then that instead of agonising on […]

By Tunde Odesola Before I encountered one of Nigeria’s funniest and roundest fabulists, Gbenga Adeboye, aka Funwontan, I had long encountered a miniature fabulist in Nurudeen Awolaru, my classmate at St Paul’s Anglican Primary School, Idi-Oro, Lagos State. Nuru’s brilliance didn’t shine through the pages of notebooks; it emitted through his thin-lipped mouth. Though I […]

Governor Ademola Adeleke during the press conference after he was declared as Osun State Governor. IT is frightening that election-related killings are continuing in Osun after the contentious August 15 governorship election. It is proof that electoral violence runs deep in the state and could linger long after the ballots have been counted unless urgent […]

In yet another controversial policy announced within three months, the West African Examinations Council and the National Examinations Council have introduced a one-off N4,000 result verification fee for students seeking admission into tertiary institutions with their O’Level results. The government must cancel it. The Head of Public Affairs, WAEC, Moyosola Adesina, in a joint statement […]

By Tunde Odesola A sibling going to bury the corpse of his elder brother naked should take his younger brother along. Why? Because the way today’s corpse is buried naked is how tomorrow’s corpse would be buried. That is a Yoruba thought on fairness, respect and reciprocity. But who is burying who? To interrogate Yoruba […]

By Steve Otaloro There arrives, in the unfolding chronicle of a people, a decisive hour when the long shadow of deferred obligation yields at last to the clear light of moral resolve. Such an hour has broken upon Ondo State under the purposeful stewardship of His Excellency, Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa. By flagging off the […]