Opinion
The Spaces the State No Longer Commands
By Lanre Ogundipe When foreign security observers begin warning about the scale and spread of armed networks operating within a...
Read moreKò Kàn Mí, Kò Kàn Mí : The Culture of Silence Fuelling Terror in Yoruba Territories – Kayode Ogunjobi
Nigeria has been battling insecurity, banditry, terrorism, and kidnapping for years. What once appeared like a distant nightmare confined to...
Read moreBefore You Press That Button, Remember This: Fear Kills Faster Than Death
Fear is one of the most powerful forces known to humanity. It does not knock before entering. It slips quietly...
Read moreFrom Zacchaeus to Zacch: Taxation, Trust and the Burden of Power By Lanre Ogundipe
History occasionally hides its deepest ironies in names. More than two thousand years after Zacchaeus, the biblical tax collector of...
Read moreEmo Ti Wo Ilu: Why South West Governors Must Act and Act Fast—Kayode Ogunjobi
There is an old Yoruba warning that carries more weight than many modern security briefingsthat ten thousand Seyi Makinde or...
Read moreThe Tinubu Enigma: Power, Strategy and the Nigerian State, Part 11: Power, Legacy and the Loneliness of Leadership— Lanre Ogundipe
Power is often imagined as the triumph of arrival. In reality, it is the beginning of isolation. The higher leaders...
Read moreWhen Children Collapse and Government Speaks in Fragments: The Unanswered Questions from Ijebu Ode
By Kayode Ogunjobi There are moments when a society is confronted with an event so unsettling that official explanations, no...
Read morePRESS STATEMENT : NNPC’s Latest Clarification Underscores Nigeria’s Refinery Trust Deficit – Lanre Ogundipe
The recent clarification issued by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) concerning its China refinery arrangement deserves careful...
Read moreThe Tinubu Enigma: Power, Strategy and the Nigerian State Part 10: Reform, Pain and the Burden of Power By Lanre Ogundipe
There is a profound difference between winning power and governing a distressed state. Politics rewards optimism. Campaigns thrive on promises,...
Read moreRefineries, Reforms, and the Cost of Repeating Failure By Lanre Ogundipe
Nigeria’s decision to once again seek foreign partners and financing to revive its long-ailing refineries comes with urgency, but also...
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