Osun election: Optics and prospects of redirection, by Adekunle Adekoya
THE governorship election of Osun State, which was an off-cycle election, held last week, and the winner is already known. In fact, incumbent governor, Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party won, polling 511,067 votes to beat his closest rival, Bola Oyebamiji of the APC who polled 444, 815 votes. All that is no longer news. […]
Bursting the scamsidy bubble
By Adekunle Adekoya A few weeks ago, on April 7, I discussed issues around petrol subsidy in a piece titled The Magic of Scamsidy. I took the position that the subsidy policy has been a scam perpetrated by the power elite at the expense of ignorant, non-discerning Nigerians. This is because subsidy was meant to […]
2015-2023: The years of pestilence
By Adekunle Adekoya WHEN the All Progressives Congress, APC, came up to challenge PDP’s hold on power since 1999 in February 2013, not a few Nigerians incubated the hope that something refreshingly different will happen to Nigeria. Formed as a merger of three parties — the Congress for Progressive Change, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, […]
Nigeria Air and Buhari’s ministers of magic
By Adekunle Adekoya YOU may not agree with me, but I have taken the position, for quite some time, that some of Buhari’s ministers are magicians. By the way, the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary says a magician is a person that is “skilled in using supernatural forces”. A synonym of magician is sorcerer, which the same […]
Ajao Estate demolitions: Outcome of slack regulation
By Adekunle Adekoya AS we entered the month of May, it was anguish for some fellow compatriots as they had their dwellings in Ajao Estate, Lagos, demolished. Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, and those of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, were part of a joint task force that carried […]
Does Buhari live here with us?
By Adekunle Adekoya LAST Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari told a stupefied nation that he had delivered on his change agenda. He spoke at the inauguration of a new housing estate in Zuba, Abuja. While presenting keys to new home-owners, the president said the new housing estate was addressing multidimensional poverty as the beneficiaries had “taken […]
