By SUNNY IKHIOYA AS the 2023 elections continue to unravel, many of the  participants are already rushing to the courts. So, we will be witnessing what I will like to describe as judiocracy, which means government of the judiciary or the courts. It is different from judiocracy, which is linked to President Putin’s Russia because […]

By Charles Onunaiju DEMOCRACY is the world’s most recognised political lexicon and its universal appeal as people focused has catapulted it to the centre-stage of international political discourse. Despite its pre-eminence, its discourse and applications are even vulnerable to manipulations and even abuse. Despite that its appeals and values are universal, it is, however, not “a […]

By SOLA EBISENI ON this page last week, asking rhetorically for the whereabouts of Mr. President as the nation boiled during the elections between February 18 and March 18, we bemoaned this curious premonition of the coincidences in times between these occurrences in our land and the tragic happenings in Rome in the Shakespearian Julius […]

By Jideofor Adibe THE violence, aggressive voter suppression and Igbophobia that characterised the February 25, 2023, Presidential and National Assembly elections and the March 18, 2023 Governorship and State Assembly contests respectively in Lagos State have raised several concerns. These attributes of Lagos politics, hitherto nuanced, became first weaponised in the run-up to the 2015 […]

By Abiodun KOMOLAFE OFTENTIMES, intrigues exist in political matrixes. Concepts such as political mass participation, collective demands, group identity and determination, and collateral damages could all mean different things to different people. It only depends on which side of the divide the definer pitches his or her tent. This unrestricted latitude and privilege to operationalise […]