Backstory of Osun Poll, and What’s Next for Adeleke, by Azu Ishiekwene
The money that politicians didn’t spend in Osun during the August 15 governorship election was the money they didn’t have and couldn’t steal. All kinds of figures have been bandied about, in hundreds of millions and billions. It’s difficult to say if these are over- or underestimations. But damn, it was some cash! Credible sources suggest […]
Right under our nose, by Ochereome Nnanna
On Monday this week, the story of another United States military operation in Nigeria trended. Sebastian Lukacs Gorka, United States Senior Counterterrorism Director and President Donald Trump’s confidant, made startling revelations about a counter-terrorism operation in Nigeria that took place three weeks ago at an undisclosed location. According to him, he watched the operation from the […]
Pruning the new DSO variant into acceptability, by Okoh Aihe
I do not know whether to say the eagle has landed for the Digital Switch-Over (DSO) or simply to say that a convoluted process has simply been resolved in the manner of deus ex machina. But whichever will apply, the fact that the DSO was launched on Wednesday June 17, 2026, under the Big Picture Initiative, […]
Who are those griping about state police? By Rotimi Fasan
Immediately the executive arm bill for the establishment of state police sailed through the National Assembly, some Nigerians, including longtime supporters of decentralized policing, started bellyaching. Everyone from news anchors to activists, not to mention opposition politicians, suddenly started trembling at the lips and appeared to be suffering from something akin to buyer’s remorse in their […]
Where failure is free, nations pay, by Dakuku Peterside
There is a powerful lesson in the political fate of Keir Starmer, but it is not merely a British lesson. It is not about Westminster drama or parliamentary theatre. It is about a deeper democratic principle: leadership improves only when failure has consequences. That is the discipline of public office. Power must never be separated from […]
The NDC case and the dangerous precedent for democracy, by Ejiro Ofoye
The decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja to set aside its earlier judgment directing the registration of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has raised far-reaching legal and political questions that go beyond the fate of a single political party. At the heart of the controversy lies a fundamental question of law: can a […]
