By Adekunle Adekoya THE Osun State off-cycle governorship election, like that of neighbouring Ekiti, has come and gone, but the contestants are still dealing with the outcome. For the winner, it was the desired culmination. For the major loser, who happens to be the incumbent, it is a bad dream, a political nightmare that has […]

By Adekunle Adekoya THERE is a lot to see, hear, or read about in Nigerian politics, and when you fit all of the takes into one reel, what you have is a picture of theatrical performers in a sphere of activity that demands the greatest level of seriousness and concentration. Let’s start with the run-ups […]

By Adekunle Adekoya IT had the trappings of an action movie from one of those Hollywood film-makers. Tuesday night, news broke that bandits had opened fire on the advance security convoy of Mr. President at Dutsinma, on their way to Daura, Katsina State, to prepare for the President’s arrival in his home town and state for […]

ByAdekunle Adekoya IT is exactly a year ago, on July 2, 2021 that this column made a call for urgent social re-engineering in our dear country. (See www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/urgent-need-for-social-re-engineering). Against this backdrop, I must say that the things I saw on our streets as I moved from one part of the country to another in pursuit […]

By Adekunle Adekoya IT is no longer news that the governorship election in Ekiti has come and gone, or that Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress, APC, won. Further, we saw how the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was trounced to a third position, running behind the SDP, which fielded Segun […]