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Crowd for hire: Election campaign rallies as a metaphor

    Crowd for hire: Election campaign rallies as a metaphor

The theatricals for winning the hearts and minds of the voters are all around us. The perceptual game of showing strength in the number of supporters is an age long

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How insecurity could decide who becomes Nigeria’s next president

    How insecurity could decide who becomes Nigeria’s next president

Nigeria first voted in presidential elections just over 43 years ago in October 1979. The introduction to this form of government was not very auspicious. Four years into the experience,

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Festus Keyamo’s shadowboxing and APC’s desperate manoeuvres

    Festus Keyamo’s shadowboxing and APC’s desperate manoeuvres

Plato made one eternal statement long ago – ‘The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men’. But the Nigerian experience is

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Five common errors about Nigeria (I)

    Five common errors about Nigeria (I)

Nigeria is a rich country. You have heard this a million times, haven’t you? What exactly do people mean by “Nigeria is rich”? They believe we have enough money to

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Atiku, El-Rufai, Udenta and the vindication of Èṣù Ọ̀dàrà

    Atiku, El-Rufai, Udenta and the vindication of Èṣù Ọ̀dàrà

Scholars are divided over what the most appropriate description and perception of Èṣù in Yoruba cosmology should be. The more

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Another leap in financial innovation as we expect the Nigerian domestic card

    Another leap in financial innovation as we expect the Nigerian domestic card

So, early this year, it was announced that the Central Bank of Nigeria in collaboration with the Nigerian Interbank Settlement

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Electricity tariff hike by subterfuge

    Electricity tariff hike by subterfuge

The full weight of the manipulative tendencies in our power sector finally dawned on me two weeks ago. I went

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‘You be thief, I no be thief’: Atiku and Tinubu should face the issues

    ‘You be thief, I no be thief’: Atiku and Tinubu should face the issues

The opening line of inimitable Fela Anikulapo’s “Authority stealing” aptly describes the current drama on Nigeria’s political plane. It is

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Why we love expensive rituals 

    Why we love expensive rituals 

In over two decades since Nigeria’s return to constitutional democracy, this is the longest politicians have had to campaign before

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The Chatham House effect

    The Chatham House effect

There seems to be a scramble, a rush, by Nigerian politicians, and political candidates for an appearance at or association

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