Babatunde Adeleke

Medium — When the Leopard Is Defanged, Brigands Fill the Jungle Amotekun, Iru Ekun, and the Tompolo Template The Southwest is watching a familiar Nigerian script play out in real time. We should call it what ...

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Medium — Tinubu is Powerful, But He Is Not Omnipotent The Political Mythmaking in Nigeria There is a growing and troubling tendency in Nigerian political discourse to treat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not as ...

lagoschronicles.com — Jaafar Jackson is electrifying, and the early years shimmer with promise. But a story this immense cannot be served by a portrait this timid. A confession

Medium — Before They Told Us Who We Were A think piece on ancient Yoruba sexuality, colonial erasure, and the memory we were taught to forget Before you start reading this, I am not a member of the LGBTQ+ ...

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lagoschronicles.com — The Return We Waited For By Adeleke Babatunde After six seasons of razor-edged drama on the cobblestoned streets of Birmingham, Steven Knight finally brings Tommy Shelby’s story to the big screen. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, directed by Tom Harper and released theatrically on March 6, 2026 before landing on Netflix on March 20, is the culmination of over a decade of one of television’s most stylistically audacious crime sagas. The question was never whether it would look and sound extraordinary. It was whether a 112-minute film could do justice to a universe that once had 36 episodes to breathe in. The answer is complicated, thrilling, and occasionally frustrating.

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Medium — The People Who Can Break You There is a particular kind of pain that does not announce itself. It does not arrive like a stranger's cruelty, loud and foreign and easy to place. It arrives quietly ...

Medium — The People Who Can Break You There is a particular kind of pain that does not announce itself. It does not arrive like a stranger's cruelty, loud and foreign and easy to place. It arrives quietly.

Sahara Reporters — The Explanation Is Always Ready, The Conscience Never Is, By Ademola Adeniran And Adeleke Babatunde

lagoschronicles.com — In Takedown, Laila Mickelwait recounts her campaign to hold Pornhub accountable for hosting evidence of child abuse and rape, and the extraordinary, messy

lagoschronicles.com — How TIFF Became the Most Powerful Launchpad in Awards Cinema

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The News Digest (Nigeria) — Healers, grifters, and the xenosphere. Read our in-depth assessment of Tade Thompson's Rosewater and its place in the modern Nigerian literary tradition

Medium — Never attribute to ignorance what can be attributed to stupidity. Hanlon’s Razor, inverted There is a particular species of performance that requires an audience to believe, even for a moment, that something has gone irreversibly wrong. The Greeks had tragedy. The Elizabethans had the theatre of blood. Nigeria, in the first quarter of 2026, has its influencers playing dead on Instagram and TikTok Live, and an entire country, bruised by economic hardship and institutional failure, pausing from its suffering to watch. What unfolded between social media activist Martins Vincent Otse, known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), and philanthropist-influencer Mitchelle Mukoro, known as King Mitchy, was not simply a beef. It was a symptom a flare-up from a deeper cultural infection, one in which attention has become the only currency that matters, moral reputation has become a battlefield rather than a compass, and ordinary people, already gasping under the weight of a collapsed naira and absent public institutions, are being handed bleach and told it is a storyline.

lagoschronicles.com — by Adeleke Babatunde

Medium — Let us be clear on what this is about Re: City Boy Movement The battle for 2023 was about structure; No, not bridges or who built the most roads, we are talking human structure. And in recent months ...

The News Digest (Nigeria) — A landmark work by Nigeria's first female philosophy professor compares Socrates' philosophy with Yoruba sage Ọ̀rúnmìlà

The News Digest (Nigeria) — A landmark work by Nigeria's first female philosophy professor compares Socrates' philosophy with Yoruba sage Ọ̀rúnmìlà

The News Digest (Nigeria) — A landmark work by Nigeria's first female philosophy professor compares Socrates' philosophy with Yoruba sage Ọ̀rúnmìlà

Medium — The Parable of the Lost Sheep Reimagined The Parable of the Lost Sheep, recorded in Luke 15:3-7 and Matthew 18:12-14, is one of Jesus' most familiar teachings. In the story, a shepherd who owns ...

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