“All things are possible in politics”— Douglas Reed After two weeks of examining the language and practice of loyalty in Nigerian politics, one conclusion stands out with unsettling clarity: the phrase “I remain loyal” has become both a confession and an indictment. It confesses the fragility of conviction in our political culture and indictes a system […]

Before now, not many people outside the South-West, especially inner Lagos circles knew, or bothered about the “City Boy” phenomenon. It was a byname invented for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by his followers at the outset of the 2023 political season to emblematise his “street-smart” persona which has enabled him to streak from nowhere to President […]

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency”.– Arnold Glasow I travelled by road for much of the last one week. Nigerian highways are faithful records of causes and consequences of our current state as a nation. Their skeletons remind you of promises and hopes of […]

This is the concluding part of this piece which last week  introduced  the narrative of how two youth groups emerged and launched public campaigns in support of  the undeclared presidential ambition of General Sani Abacha, which eventually culminated to his adoption as the presidential candidate of all the five political parties at the time. Despite […]

The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous writer’s nuclear-powered intellectual attack against Leftists who had […]