Opinion
The Tinubu Enigma: Power, Strategy and the Nigerian StatePart 7: The Economics of Power — Money, Resources and Political Sustainability—Lanre Ogundipe
If Part 6 examined the intelligence that drives President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political method, the next layer of analysis must...
Read moreThe Sacred Cow and the Missing Milk: The Cow Produces, The Village Waits —By Lanre Ogundipe
In the ancient village of Abuja, there lived a cow so extraordinary that it defied logic and humbled imagination. The...
Read moreDo We Now Die by Appointment?A nation reassured into routine vulnerability —By Lanre Ogundipe
It would appear that the nation is on the verge of a significant administrative breakthrough.For years, there has been a...
Read moreOgun Punch Consensus Gubernatorial Candidate and the Politics of Convenient Denial-by Segun Omoboriola
Only a week after The Punch Newspaper reported Senator Solomon Adeola Yayi as the emerging consensus gubernatorial figure within critical...
Read moreThe Tinubu Enigma: Power, Strategy and the Nigerian StatePart 5: The Engine of Power — How Tinubu Builds, Sustains and Reproduces Influence — By Lanre Ogundipe
Political analysis in Nigeria often reduces power to moments—elections won, offices occupied, alliances struck. Victory is explained through campaign strategy;...
Read moreEditorial: Lisabi Day 2026—Beyond the Pomp, a Call to Purpose
As the booming of guns echoes from the majestic heights of Olumo Rock this week, Abeokuta once again transforms into...
Read moreDiaspora, Diplomacy and the Danger of Ethnic ProjectionBy Lanre Ogundipe
In moments of high-level diplomacy, nations speak in carefully calibrated signals. Protocol, presence and even absence are read for meaning....
Read moreThe Gilded Cage: Senator Sharafadeen Alli and the 2027 Ibadan Power Play
By :Olatunji Adesina IBADAN – For Senator Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli, the road to the Agodi Government House in 2027 was...
Read moreWho Audits the Auditors? —By Lanre Ogundipe
Nigeria’s anti-corruption conversation has been built around a familiar script: identify corrupt officials, investigate them, prosecute them, recover assets. It...
Read moreAnticipatory Asset Declaration: The System That Files Corruption Before It Happens —By Lanre Ogundipe
When assets are declared before they exist and accepted without verification, corruption is no longer concealed—it is administratively enabled When...
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