Bimbo Adekanmbi: Looking beneath the surface | By Jide Ajayi
In his recent newsletter, Governor Seyi Makinde noted that he was close to naming his candidate for Governorship elections. According to him, May is the month of decision. He said…
Sarafadeen Alli: Revisiting Saheed Osupa’s misyarn and the Agbelero award in Lagos|By Hammed Muritala
Last Friday, a comedy played out in Ibadan in the form of a declaration of a governorship ambition. The actors in the comedy included the Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial…
Diran Odeyemi: Long in Tongue, Short in hand | By Ademola Oke
Diran Odeyemi: Long in Tongue, Short in hand. Diran Odeyemi’s recent interview on Agidigbo FM’s “Oselu Gbode” was an opportunity to correct past missteps. Instead, it became a platform for…
Will Ogundoyin get the lead role in this epic movie called ‘2027’?| By Ibrahim Adekola
Ahead of the forthcoming 2027 general election in Oyo state, geography has once again auditioned for the lead role in a movie that is already undergoing casting. The funniest part…
Ogundoyin’s ‘IGBEGA OYO 3.0 a well designed roadmap that connects today to tomorrow | Ismail Ayodele
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…
Why Oyo PDP cannot afford to gamble in Oyo South senatorial district| By Ibrahim Adekola
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…
Editor’s Diary: When emotions go up like flames, the law awaits in patience
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,…
How The ADC Wave Is Rewriting Tinubu’s Home Base By Dr Abimbola Oyarinu
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…
Editor’s Diary: PDP, the weight and burden of its own history
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.…
2027 OYO GOV RACE: Saheed Akinade-Fijabi in the PDP scheme of things
“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…