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Why Nigeria’s Opposition Bears Greater Responsibility for Democratic Decline

The essence of democracy is not the ballot. The ballot is only its instrument. The essence of democracy is the free and open contest...
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How Not to Criticise Governor Aiyedatiwa: A Case for Facts Over Speculation

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Accountability, Not Excuses, Is the True Test of Democratic Leadership

There is a powerful lesson in the political fate of Keir Starmer, but it is not merely a British lesson. It is not about Westminster...
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I See Government and the Media as Democratic Rivals, Yet Partners in Nation-Building — Tinubu

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Why Nigeria’s Opposition Bears Greater Responsibility for Democratic Decline

The essence of democracy is not the ballot. The ballot is only its instrument. The essence of democracy is the free and open contest...

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Why Nigeria’s Opposition Bears Greater Responsibility for Democratic Decline

The essence of democracy is not the ballot. The ballot is only its instrument. The essence of democracy is the free and open contest...

How Not to Criticise Governor Aiyedatiwa: A Case for Facts Over Speculation

In the rough-and-tumble arena of Nigerian bolekaja politics, where heated rhetoric often eclipses sober reason, Sufuyan Ojeifo’s latest satanic salvo, “No Lotus for Governor...

Accountability, Not Excuses, Is the True Test of Democratic Leadership

There is a powerful lesson in the political fate of Keir Starmer, but it is not merely a British lesson. It is not about Westminster...

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The killings, beatings, persecution, humiliation of Nigerians in South Africa stand condemned

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  William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' is, in my view, one of his best plays ever written by history's greatest bard and playwright, and it is...

The debt crisis isn’t only about how much Nigeria owes, but what it  wants to become

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  There are moments when statistics stop being numbers; they become warnings. Nigeria is in such a moment. Its debt profile is no longer a...

Visiting a suspect with summary execution is a horrendous crime against humanity

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No, it wasn't a spur-of-the-moment action. ASP Usman Nuhu of the Nigeria Police Force came to the Benin Motor Park along the Warri–Sapele Expressway in...

Opposition parties still writhing in a self-inflicted and debilitating factional crisis

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  The dust may not have fully settled on the conventions of what is gradually emerging as the three main political parties in the country,...

Politics without the People for the People?

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             In our beloved but beleaguered Nigeria, the year 2027 has caught the fancy, imagination, and frenzied attention of the political class, the politicians,...

Beyond the Creeklines: Yenagoa offers a different story. It carries visible signs of intention

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When the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board invited me to Yenagoa as a guest author and lead facilitator for its quarterly leadership dialogue, I accepted...

ADC motley crowd is not in principled defense of democracy, but a calculated attempt to weaponize rhetoric

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   By Sunday Dare Even before the official commencement of the election season and before the Polls open, the “opposition”, a hurriedly stitched together contraption in...

Nigeria’s Economic Story Will Not Be Determined By Federal Policy Alone, But By The 36 States

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Nigeria’s economic debate remains stubbornly fixated on Abuja, as though the country’s future can still be engineered from the centre. That assumption is no...

Ilaje That Was: The Coastline Was a Firm, Compact Earth, a Unique Blend of Clay and Sand, Strong Beneath Our Feet

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Those years now feel distant but strangely vivid! Then, the coastline of Ilaje stood firm and untroubled, as though it had made a quiet...

Modern Law, Ancient Language: Nigerian Courts and Latin Maxims

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  As a law student in Nigeria several years ago, I prided myself on the number of legal Latin maxims I could recite effortlessly. Ab...

Nigeria Reset: If Nigeria wants policing that earns trust, some behaviours must stop

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  By AG Ahmed Police reform is one of Nigeria’s most recycled phrases. It appears after every scandal, every viral video, every tragedy that forces the...

Every four years, Utomi comes out to mount a moral high horse on who should lead Nigeria

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