Four months from now Oyo state electorates would be at the polls to elect their preferred candidate for the governorship seat. More than 10 candidates are in the race for the March 11, 2023 election, including the incumbent governor Seyi Makinde who is seeking a second term. Makinde’s runner-up in the 2019 edition was Adebayo…
There is hardly anyone who has no idea of the word monarch, given how long it has been in the existence of man and society, and how ubiquitous it is. Irrespective of language, culture, geography, or any other consideration, people – everywhere in the world – have one thing that is common in their histories,…
This piece is not intended to paint anyone in colours (whether good or bad), it rather examines Nigeria’s fate since independence, and highlights the need for urgent action from all of us that are called by the name Nigeria (the government and the governed). While we are all responsible for Nigeria’s current reality, it must,…
The bid for the Nigerian Presidency has always been a two-horse race, since the country’s independence on October 1, 1960. Despite several military interventions, it’s remained the same each time democracy returned, and has been since the beginning of the current 4th republic in 1999. While there have been changes in name and formation in…
“This administration has done extremely well. I have to say it because those who are supposed to say it are not saying it. I don’t know why.” The above was a statement made by President Muhammadu Buhari while on a working visit to Imo state two weeks ago. The president had been invited by the…
Growing up with parents and guardians who had a keen interest in politics and governance (both national and international), and who engaged us (as young as we were then) on political issues, had a significant impact on shaping our minds and ideas on politics, governance, and what kind of country Nigeria should be. Some of…
A man, they say, is a product of his environment. This is so because the environment of a man has a great influence on his life. A man, whether consciously or otherwise, internalizes the various trends in his society, and his interaction with society is strictly influenced by such trends. When a child is born,…
Criticism of government is, perhaps, one of the easiest things to do. As a matter of fact, it is a part of us, especially in the absence of political apathy. In other words, if you are one who has an interest in how the society is run, whether as an observer or an active participant…
The politics of the 2023 Nigerian General Elections has begun and is in full throttle. Intentions to run for various offices have been declared, supposed agreements are being broken, alignments are being adjusted, and decamping is going on, among other things. While all these are going on, one subject that has become as popular as…
In Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature, life was competitive, violent, brutish, and short. It was so because there was no central governing authority to check human relations, and because people wanted, largely, the same things, things that could not go around everyone. So it became a struggle, a violent one in which the strongest almost…
