Opinions
Professor Jason Arday Occasionally, what a person achieves eclipses who they are. They may be allowed into an institution because of scholarship, research, intellectual contribution, or intellectual promise. But that credential can come to matter…
“When the house collapses, it is not the wind that should be blamed, but the termites that were ignored.” – African proverb. In politics, as in life, decline rarely announces itself with a trumpet. It creeps in quietly, disguised as…
If you wanna live – treat me goodIf you wanna live, live –I beg you treat me good I’m like a walking razorDon’t you watch my sizeI’m dangerous, said I’m dangerous I’m like a walking razorDon’t you watch my sizeI’m…
In ancient times, the sages sought to know the bowels of the future by looking into the bowels of animals. They would spread the skin of a slain beast, and after studying the surface contours, lines and features, they would…
Africa has made many demands of the world over the decades. Few have carried the moral clarity and political weight of the one now taking shape: a unified continental claim for reparations from Britain for the crimes of colonialism. What…
As the tenure of Engr. Dr Taofeek Adekunle Abdul-Hammed, the pioneer rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ayede, draws to a close, attention naturally turns to how his administration, working alongside the registrar, Akin Odesola, and the institution’s other principal officers,…
The second coming of Donald Trump as President of the United States has been anything but a gentle reprise of Washington’s old routines. It has not restored the presidency of the world’s most powerful nation, so much as it reinvented it.…
Since President Donald Trump started his second coming on January 20, 2025, the world economy has never enjoyed peaceful growth, and it is not likely to know peace for some time to come. The period started “like play, like play”…
Prince Adekunle, the Yoruba Juju music maestro of the 1970s, once sang that a tree which falls in the forest cannot kill someone right inside their home; nor could a fallen rafter kill a bystander in the forest (Igi kìí…
Let no one tell you that Nigeria is a poor country. This is a country of bottomless lucre. Nigeria is a rich country but its citizens are poor. The few who are rich are filthy rich. They are so rich…
Sickness is a stranger in the Body of Christ. Today, all mankind is divided into two. You are either in Adam, or you are in Christ. In Adam In the beginning of creation, God put all mankind in Adam. By…
If this four‑year mark offers any takeaway, it is that public service is neither a shortcut to impact nor a refuge for complacency. It is demanding, often misunderstood work that benefits from thoughtful participation. Imo State, like Nigeria more broadly,…
Africa stands at a crossroads. The old model: donor driven, fragmented and reactive is fading. The new model: nationally owned, intelligence driven, and accountable is emerging. The US decision to channel billions directly to African governments is not just a…
So many years ago, my sisters and I used a particular deodorant, and it caused furuncles, popularly known as boils, on our armpits. We call ourselves queens, and I am Queen 1, being the first child of the family. Just…
On January 3, INEC, Nigeria’s electoral umpire, denied having published the 2027 election schedule. As often happens, the Nigerian mass media was eager to affirm, “Not me!” But equally ready to quote and take the power’s word for it, many…
There is a shade of embarrassment that comes not through grand errors but through minor, avoidable oversights, the kind that makes you wince because the cost of avoiding it was so negligible. Last Sunday, that embarrassment arrived via a tiny…
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