THERE are two estates every human being leaves behind. One is visible; the other is invisible. The visible estate consists…
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THERE are men who inhabit time, and there are those who interrogate it. There are writers who merely chronicle history,…
NIGERIA never disappoints. Just when citizens thought they had seen every conceivable form of political expression, a new masterpiece emerged…
Lanre Ogundipe THERE are public officials who occupy offices, and there are those rare individuals whose character quietly transforms the…
WHEN foreign security observers begin warning about the scale and spread of armed networks operating within a sovereign country, serious…
THERE comes a stage in the life of every consequential presidency when governance gradually escapes the immediacy of daily politics…
POWER is often imagined as the triumph of arrival. In reality, it is the beginning of isolation. The higher leaders…
THERE is a profound difference between winning power and governing a distressed state. Politics rewards optimism. Campaigns thrive on promises,…
THE EARLIER parts of this series examined the rise of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the architecture of his political influence,…
OUTRAGE, it appears, is most sincere when it is politically neutral but this time it is anchored in something firmer…