Professor C.S Whitaker framed it as a defining element of the politics of tradition, calling it “change and continuity”. By that, he suggests that the old order never fades away completely.... Read more
By Ike Okonta Sonala Olumhense, the distinguished journalist, attended an event in New York last week where Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, gave a speech. According to Ol... Read more
Aminu Habibu Jahun Each of the four leading political parties (PDP, APC, the Labour Party and NNPP) carries a burden which could pull it down in the 2023 presidential election and for which... Read more
Saturday, July 16th, 2022 was gubernatorial election day in Nigeria’s Southwest state of Osun. The results which followed immediately showed the main opposition party – the Peopl... Read more
Ike Okonta ‘In any society where a governing elite, faced with wide social inequality, mass poverty, unemployment and conspicuous waste of limited national resources, resorts to a systematic... Read more
By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The wisdom that if the eye is not fixed on the sky, it has nowhere else to makes any sitting president vulnerable to probing engagement. There is though the late Prof Eskor T... Read more
By Mike Kebonkwu Esq Sure as death, the year 2023 must come. That is for those that will be alive, given the commonality of death in the country today. The general elections will also hold... Read more
Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) is, unlike Atiku Abubakar, his counterpart from the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) obvio... Read more
By Ike Okonta It was the late Claude Ake, one of Africa’s foremost political economists, who observed in his book ‘Democracy And Development in Africa’ that Africa remained underdeveloped be... Read more
