Lessons From Osun 2026 and the road to 2027: Parties, personalities and the coming contest (2), by Usman Sarki
The first part of this article concluded with the observation that while all politics may indeed be local, the economic hardship confronting Nigerians today is anything but local. But before examining how these conditions may shape the 2027 elections, the Osun experience invites us to confront an even more fundamental question: what exactly do our political parties […]
Let’s rejoice, let’s mourn
Many are celebrating the installation of Dr. Kayode Fayemi as Governor of Ekiti State. I am celebrating too, thank you. But I am sad, very sad indeed. I am sad because I am also mourning; and you can’t be popping bottles of champagne when you are mourning.
Mjc Echeruo: Syracuse celebrates a titan
Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo, poet, scholar, literary theorist and administrator is one of Africa’s leading men of ideas from the 20th century. His impact on the shaping of the ideas of the African world in modernity is vast and pointed.
The senate’s third term blow
‘THROWN OUT’ was a newspaper’s headline, celebrating the Senate crushing of the executive bill sneakily passed to the National Assembly on the apron of the Jega-exigency which sought to reverse an electoral feat already achieved by the NASS-namely the barring of presidential battalion of aides as delegates to presidential party primaries!
INEC: The time to speak is from now
This piece which is essentially on how an organization should manage information is informed by the directive of the Nigerian Senate to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last week to do his work and talk less.
Everyday Miracles
A little girl kneels down and begins to say her night prayers. She is without the complication of big words and the eloquence of accomplished speakers.
