From last week,  this is the concluding part of Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s counter-submission in response to that of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa on the declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region following the Action Group crisis there. “Thirdly I say- I said it outside this House and I want to repeat it on […]

The halfway mark of any journey invites a reckoning, and politics is no exception. In mature liberal democracies, the reckoning is built into the calendar: midterm elections test the strength of the governing party by subjecting its record to the electorate’s cold appraisal. One of the defining features of American-style liberal democracy is the midterm performance […]

Quote: “If anyone should be held responsible for Tinubu’s victory, it should be those who elevated region and religion as the prime determinants of their choices during the last election” . I was recently engaged by a group of young Nigerians who had just registered for my graduate class on Governance and Public Policy at a northern […]

By Dele Sobowale ”Capital is a coward: it flees from wherever there is turbulence.”  Time managementFor almost ten years, the idea has been disturbing my mind that perhaps the time has come in Nigeria when governments at all levels must consider security as an economic variable. Right now, Nigerians, in and out of government remain […]

I anticipated  lots of reactions  to my April 12, 2025 column titled  “How the military taught Nigerians the art of looting.” However, I did not expect an avalanche. It was as if I had made a monumental discovery  on corruption. I have not!   Some of the reactions suggested that multi-party democracy in a  diverse religious  and […]