A nation’s mind dies when it can no longer recognise irony even when the irony is wearing agbada, boarding a presidential jet, and lecturing the rest of us about sacrifice. No previous assemblage of Nigerian power-brokers has democratised this particular form of intellectual blindness quite as thoroughly as the APC under first Buhari and now Tinubu.
What’s a small moment from your past that you still think about years later? The result of the midterm elections is one for the books
Nigeria has not been short of constitutional provisions. It has been short of the political will to make those provisions effective.
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as part of its review of the 2019 General elections in the country is reportedly working on a proposal for the alteration of the 1999 Constitution as amended to enable it reduce the number of political parties in the country. A total of 91 political parties participated in the …
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There is a curious magic trick at the heart of modern politics. Politicians promise to cut taxes. The wealthy cheer. Businesses applaud. The public is told that investment will surge, prosperity will spread and, eventually, the benefits will “trickle down” to everyone else. Then the government discovers that it still has to pay for hospitals, …
