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The emasculation of Osun’s elected government is not an isolated misjudgment. It is part of a wider and deeply troubling pattern in which partisan fiat appears increasingly comfortable replacing constitutional…
Nigeria has never lacked for strongmen. What it lacks chronically, tragically, is strong institutions. And so the country finds itself once again in familiar territory: a federal government behaving not…
Nigerians love to complain, and often we have every right to. But every once in a while, a story comes along that deserves to be told simply because it is…
Since the Catholic Bishops’ visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the storm of reactions to the event has not abated. For a visit that was supposed to be private, the…
There is a peculiar species of post-governmental pathology that infects the retired statesmen of the developing world, wherein the dignity of former high office is systematically bartered for the cheap…
Did anyone notice that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu personally signed the statement directing the EFCC to return to court and vacate the order freezing the accounts of the Osun State…
More than a week after the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) visited the president, reactions to the encounter by some of the country’s most influential clerics at Aso Rock…
President Bola Tinubu said something last week that should have made headlines for days, not hours. Kidnappers who abducted victims in Oyo State didn’t just want money; they wanted the…
There is an old African saying that a king who surrounds himself only with praise singers soon mistakes applause for progress. Every leader, however powerful, needs people who are willing…
Every democracy occasionally presents a defining moment that reveals not merely the disposition of those who govern but also the resilience of the democratic culture they profess to uphold. The…
