By his self-understanding as a lion in the Nigerian political forest, the past one week must have come to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a shock. The lion is rarely caught off-guard or easily messed... 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 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
Nigeria’s ruling party ended Sunday, June 5th, 2022 a more bouncing ruling party than the image it cut in the past few days. Notwithstanding the horrific attack on a Church in Owo in Southwe... Read more
Dying as activist intellectuals; as Pan-Africanists; each of you at a time anyone least expected and all of you in the month of May have added novelty to your own departure. Added to those a... Read more
The struggle for the Office of the President of Nigeria has become so crowded an affair that this series which started with Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu December 16h, 2021 has barely progressed... Read more
They are very weighty claims, including naming names. But that is nothing new to the former Senate President, the Idoma born Ameh Ebute, (CON). During the June 12 Debacle, he did get Nigeria... Read more
Former governor of Lagos State in Southwest Nigeria and a mandarin of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, must have an active student of John Austin’s How to Do Things W... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA That Nigeria is in disarray is not in dispute. The crisis has actually become an all-consuming affair in several ways: terrorists are still contesting the stateness of the st... Read more
Is it not possible that pundits are missing the signs of a ‘forward to the past’ in the politics of the man popularly called the Lion of Bourdillion? Politics hardly follow a linear trajecto... Read more
