Governor Oborevwori and the triangular tide
By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in built and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide.There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when viewed […]
Unity, Structure and Strategy: Inside the Significance of the APC National Convention
By Arabinrin Aderonke When I received the notification that I have been added to the Media and Publicity Committee of the forthcoming national convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, I felt a deep sense of honour and responsibility. Beyond the excitement, it offered a moment to reflect on the weight of the assignment and […]
After Bashar Sani’s death, the North must finally confront its own monsters
The heartbreaking murder of Malam Bashar Sani, a senior administrator at the College of Education, Maru, is yet another grim reminder of the tragedy consuming Northern Nigeria. Despite paying more than N25.7 million in ransom—alongside motorcycles, phones and airtime—to secure the release of his abducted family members over several years, he was eventually killed by the […]
On being a politician and a political scientist
By Tunji Olaopa One of the opening pedagogical directions in any political science or political philosophy beginning classes is to make a comparison between being a politician and being a political scientist. The teacher then asks the students how both can explicate our understanding of what it means to be political from their different endeavors. […]
Let the opposition breathe
Democracy does not thrive on unanimity. It thrives on contestation, scrutiny, and the constant testing of power by opposing voices
One man can do it
By SUNNY IKHIOYA Nigerians have developed an ‘I don’t care ‘ attitude towards governance. You can call it apathy, but do you blame them? They have waited with indifference for the actualisation of the renewed hope agenda. Some of us have become incurable pessimists who do not believe anything good can come out of our […]
