Imado (Wathorg) and The Slave Story By Sola Ajisafe, Esq ” _Imado iba se bi Elede a ba ilu je, eru i ba j’oba ko ni ku eni kankan” – Yoruba Wise Saying (When a leader is like a wild elephant, “Wathorg” destruction follows_ Over a year ago, I wrote about the dangers of leaders…
Free Speech Is Not License for Anarchy. By Olaitan Adesina I have read several elegantly written and legally textured articles demanding or appealing for leniency from the Honourable Minister for the Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo in the matter of Emorioloye Owolemi, the self-acclaimed Director General of Asiwaju Media Team, an organization which parades itself as a…
Borrowed Glory and Stolen Credit: Why Nigeria Must Get Serious About Copyright (2) By Olaitan Adesina If music theft is loud, intellectual theft on blogs and social media is whisper-quiet and far more pervasive. It’s usually just copy, paste, and a confident tone. Someone spends hours researching, writing, editing, and publishing. Another person screenshots it,…
Borrowed Glory and Stolen Credit: Why Nigeria Must Get Serious About Copyright (1) By Olaitan Adesina In Nigeria, we love talent so much that we sometimes excuse theft if it sings or dances well. We clap for the remix, sing along to the faster tempo, and we call it innovation. But there is a…
Blood in Idanre, Bruises in Akure: A Party in Turmoil By Olaitan Adesina Just when many hoped the chaos at the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State would be an isolated embarrassment, events in Idanre have deepened the sense that something is badly wrong in our political atmosphere. According to the police,…
Nigeria’s economy: What is to be done? By abiodun KOMOLAFE Using the phrase ‘What is to be done?’ in the headline to this analysis is deliberate. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin used the title in a brilliant 1902 treatise to outline the strategic methodology needed for a successful transformation of the state. It is a question…
THE ONE-PARTY MIRAGE BY EUGENE NANVEN The consolidation of power within the All Progressives Congress as we head into the heart of 2026 is being framed by its architects as the ultimate arrival of national stability. I watched Felix Morka defend this claim on Arise News today and it really makes me sad. To the…
The Coalition of 2026: A Marriage of Convenience or the Birth of a New Nigerian Consensus? By Eugene Nanven Writing an article on the 2026 political realignments requires us to step away from the polished, clinical summaries of a machine and step into the smoky, restless rooms where Nigerian power is actually brokered. If you…
ONDO AT 50: A GOLDEN JUBILEE OF SPEECHES, SERMONS… AND ZERO PROJECTS Olaitan Adesina If bad governance were an Olympic sport, Ondo State would be standing on the podium by now, draped in gold medals for press releases and photo ops. Sadly, bad roads do not respond to grammar, hospitals are not furnished by rhetoric,…
Titles Without Territory: The Alaafin and the Limits of Legacy By Olaitan Adesina There is a common temptation, in societies with long memories, to mistake survival for supremacy and ritual continuity for political relevance. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recurring effort by some voices to speak of the Oyo Empire as though…
