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Okoh Aihe
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Regulator builds coalition for a new telecom policy, by Okoh Aihe

The telecommunications industry opened with a bang in early 2000 after a snail-walk in the previous years of political uncertainties and economic decisions that were at best tentative. The industry was not only deregulated but phone ownership was so democratised that the development mocked previous assertions that telephones were for the rich. It was the birth […]

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“I Remain Loyal”: Beyond the slogan and rethinking loyalty in Nigeria’s politics(3), by Usman Sarki
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“I Remain Loyal”: Beyond the slogan and rethinking loyalty in Nigeria’s politics(3), by Usman Sarki

“All things are possible in politics”— Douglas Reed After two weeks of examining the language and practice of loyalty in Nigerian politics, one conclusion stands out with unsettling clarity: the phrase “I remain loyal” has become both a confession and an indictment. It confesses the fragility of conviction in our political culture and indictes a system […]

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El-Rufai wanted and begged to be arrested, by Rotimi Fasan

Well before he arrived Nigeria from Egypt, Nasir el-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna State and frontline promoter of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, the new political home of the major opposition figures that have sworn to unseat President Bola Tinubu, had announced that he would be arrested upon arrival in the country. More than a […]

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Biodun Jeyifo: The intellectual as a revolutionary, by Owei Lakemfa
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Biodun Jeyifo: The intellectual as a revolutionary, by Owei Lakemfa

The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous writer’s nuclear-powered intellectual attack against Leftists who had […]

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Election integrity and the politics of discretion, by Dakuku Peterside
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Election integrity and the politics of discretion, by Dakuku Peterside

Democracies rarely die in one dramatic moment. More often, they are quietly redesigned—clause by clause—until citizens discover that elections still occur, but accountability no longer follows. Nigeria’s democracy is not being overthrown; it is being edited. Not with tanks on the streets, but with provisions in a bill. The most dangerous edits are the ones sold […]

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PDP drifting beyond repair - Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
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Senator Akpabio is angry, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed

“The chameleon changes colour to match the earth. The earth does not change colour to match the chameleon”.- African proverb. Reports say Senate President Godswill Akpabio recently hit back at critics attempting to push the legislature away from its apparent direction regarding the 2027 elections. He is miffed by those who are either deliberately ignoring key […]

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The SEDC will need protection from political extortion, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
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The SEDC will need protection from political extortion, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

​When he presented his budget proposals for 2024 to Nigeria’s National Assembly, the first full year of appropriations under his presidency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu identified as his priorities human asset development, poverty reduction and fighting insecurity.  Last week, his official spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, appeared to forget or renounce that policy direction, when he acknowledged […]

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Oshiomhole and the South African Mgbeke, by Ugoji Egbujo
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Oshiomhole and the South African Mgbeke, by Ugoji Egbujo

I pity Oshiomhole. At 73, our grandfathers had young wives. The culture of polygamy permitted them to keep a harem to cater to all their fantasies. They probably believed a touch of  nubility was needed to soothe aging nerves and joints, especially when the gaze of the older wives had shifted to their grandchildren. But Western civilisation […]

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