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In a political season where promises often arrive well polished but paper-thin by political aspirants who understood the game, the sudden unveiling of a detailed and carefully researched, well structured…

Politics has a way of rewarding memory, such that may even have been eroded by passage of time. Not the loud or dramatic kind, but the quiet recollection of who…

There is a certain way Ibadan reacts when tradition and politics collide. It is rarely quiet. Voices rise quickly or in some cases, instantaneously. Positions harden even faster. Before long,…

In Nigerian politics, when the South-West sneezes, Aso Rock catches a cold. For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a man who built his entire political identity on the granite foundations of…

There’s a certain way people talk about the People’s Democratic Party these days. As if its story is already over. As if the crises have finally caught up with it.…

“Ori l’Akin Fijabi ti lo m’oye wa, Ajia Olubadan, Fijabi mi Kilanko, Baba Oloye n’Ibadan o…,” King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal sang boisterously in a track in his Volume 3 Album…

There are moments in a nation’s political life when the conversation moves from rhetoric to rules. The present political development in Nigeria is one of those moments. With the countdown…

Indications have emerged that the Chairman of the Oyo State Water Corporation, Elias Adeojo, is set to formally join the race to succeed incumbent governor Seyi Makinde, ahead of the…

There was a time when the Peoples Democratic Party felt almost permanent in Nigerian politics. From 1999 to 2015, the party governed the country without interruption. It produced presidents, controlled…

Oyo State politics may soon start to witness a wave of resignations from members of the state executive council and other political appointees in the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde…