Intimate Affairs: Virgin hunter, by Funke Egbemode Tamuno was a man-about-town. He played the field and sowed generously. He gave himself as well as his substance. He was the Nigerian version of Don Juan. He knew where all a girl’s buttons were and once he got his fingers on them, he kept them there until…
Emeritus Prof Anthony Asiwaju on Alaafin and Alaketu, Benin Republic Part 2 ALAAFIN IN COMPARATIVE YORUBA HISTORY: RESILIENCE AND ADAPTABILITY OF THE ALAKETU INSTITUTION IN CONTEMPORARY KETU, REPUBLIC OF BÉNIN, FORMER FRENCH DAHOMEY By Emeritus Professor Anthony I. Asiwaju RESILIENCE AND ADAPTABILITY IN KETU The comparative history compass comes into play when, instead of continuing…
Emeritus Prof Anthony Asiwaju on Alaafin and Alaketu, Benin Republic Part 1 ALAAFIN IN COMPARATIVE YORUBA HISTORY: RESILIENCE AND ADAPTABILITY OF THE ALAKETU INSTITUTION IN CONTEMPORARY KETU, REPUBLIC OF BÉNIN, FORMER FRENCH DAHOMEY By Emeritus Professor Anthony I. Asiwaju INTRODUCTION The Coronation of an Alaafin of Oyo, as the Organisers of this all-important Colloquium have…
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Nigeria’s politics of denying women By Prof Toyin Falola Since 2023, multiple expressions of indignity have pervaded Nigeria’s legislative chambers. These conducts are beyond the simple attribute of being a rubber stamp; they are symbols of a deep-rooted disregard for responsible, accountable leadership. Yet, I have not penned this to decry…
Nigerian billionaire, Adebayo Ogunlesi, leads BlackRock’s $23bn acquisition of Panama Canal ports Months after President Donald Trump had been hammering Panama over its most valuable asset, the Panama Canal, an investment group led by BlackRock, a giant American asset manager, has agreed to buy two ports in the place owned by a Hong Kong…
Donald Trump is too weak to understand soft power By Joan Westenberg Donald Trump doesn’t understand soft power. He doesn’t trust it, doesn’t believe in it, and certainly doesn’t know how to wield it. To him, power only works when it bruises. If it doesn’t punch, it doesn’t count. As a man, as a leader,…
Media narrative: Between Tinubu’s birthday and the lynching of northerners in Uromi By Yushau A. Shuaib In school, we are taught that the media—often described as the Fourth Estate—exists to educate, inform, and serve as a watchdog for society. Yet behind this noble ideal lies a troubling reality: media narratives are frequently shaped by the interests…
TODAY IN HISTORY: 10 years ago, Jonathan called Buhari to concede election defeat On March 31, 2015, precisely a decade ago, a brief telephone conversation altered Nigeria’s political landscape and reinforced its democratic values. The days leading to the 2015 general election were intense, with political permutations, strong rhetoric, predictions, doomsday prophesies, and pockets of…
Civil service, “I-am-directed” administrative tradition, and changing times By Tunji Olaopa “How then can we begin to reimagine the transition from Theory X to Theory Y which the neo-Weberian institutional framework permits? I will outline two fundamental variables in terms of which we can assess any bureaucratic system. The first concerns the dynamics of the…
Voice vote on Rivers a scam, Senators– Utomi Many Nigerians have been critical of the declarationenators– Utomi of a state of emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu, the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and members of the state assembly. Many also find the subsequent approval of the emergency rule by…
