Category: Opinion

Pat Utomi

Pat Utomi: Time to take a back seat

    By Temitope Ajayi   Since bursting into national consciousness, Professor Patrick Utomi has convinced himself that he is the Nigerian equivalent of...

Amupitan’s Yanga Wakes Trouble

  By Azu Ishiekwene   Six months after his appointment as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan...

Pat Utomi: An economic buccaneer flirting with intellectualism

Pat Utomi: An economic buccaneer flirting with intellectualism   By Sunday Dare     Professor Pat Utomi has once again chosen to dance naked in the public...

Yayi: The Lagos-Ogun Boundary Belt Can Wait No Longer

By Bamidele Johnson There is a certain electricity in the air when a candidacy feels less like an imposition and more like a collective choice. The emergence of Solomon...

The Tinubu Enigma Part 6: Political Intelligence as Power — The Mind Behind the Machine

The Tinubu Enigma Part 6: Political Intelligence as Power — The Mind Behind the Machine By Lanre Ogundipe If Part 5 examined the structure of power surrounding...

US-Israel-Iran: Who won and who lost the war?

  By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 Prussian war strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, defines war as the continuation of politics by other...

Terrorism: Of Sovereignty, Help from Outside

    Sovereignty is the supreme, absolute power and authority of a state to govern itself, manage its own affairs, and make laws within its territory without...

INEC, ADC and the Latin Phrase: Another View

  Azu Ishiekwene There are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria. It is not merely the wigs...

Part 5: The Engine of Power — How Tinubu Builds, Sustains and Reproduces Influence

The Tinubu Enigma: Power, Strategy and the Nigerian State Part 5: The Engine of Power — How Tinubu Builds, Sustains and Reproduces Influence By Lanre Ogundipe...

ADC: The ‘black market’ Atiku and others bought…

ADC: The ‘black market’ Atiku and others bought… By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 Countdown to the 2015 presidential election, I...