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Not so ok (opens the original)
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Politics, we are told, makes strange bedfellows. Yet the real danger is not strangeness but incompatibility. Strange bedfellows can surprise you; incompatible ones suffocate you. What happens when those brought together by ambition refuse to sleep in the same bed? That is the parable of the National Democratic Congress today. The NDC wants to be seen as a national redemption song, yet it increasingly sounds like a choir whose lead singers are reading from different hymn sheets. Its two front men
Between interview, interrogation and a PR man’s albatross (opens the original)
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There is an old professional refrain among journalists: a dog does not eat dog. It is usually invoked as an instinct of fraternity, sometimes as a plea for restraint, and occasionally, as all professional codes can be, as a convenient shelter from scrutiny. I do not intend to invert the prescription. This is not a call for journalists to feast on one another. But perhaps the rule itself deserves a little interrogation. Interrogated? Yes. Because there is a thin, sometimes almost invisible, line
Of the apparatchiks in campaign councils (opens the original)
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The controversy over Zacch Adedeji’s appointment as Deputy Director of Fundraising in President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 Presidential Campaign Council is not merely about one man, nor should it be reduced to another partisan skirmish in which the ruling party is accused, and the opposition suddenly discovers the virtues of institutional propriety. The same applies to Dr Bisoye Coker-Odusote of the National Identity Management Commission. The deeper question is what happens to the Nigerian state when t
The professor-king paradox (opens the original)
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On Friday, Oba Abdukabir Adeyemi Obalanlege, the Olota of Ota, turned sixty. His birthday occasions this reflection, not merely because such milestones invite remembrance, but because his journey from the newsroom to the throne illuminates one of the more intriguing contradictions in contemporary traditional authority: Nigeria has perhaps never had a more intellectually accomplished generation of traditional rulers, even as the constitutional standing of the institution they occupy has arguably
Oba Abdulkabir Obalanlege @60: Scholar on the throne (opens the original)
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Some birthdays merely mark the arithmetic of age, and some birthdays invite a people to pause and take stock of a life. The 60th birthday of His Royal Majesty, Oba Professor Abdulkabir Adeyemi Obalanlege, Lanlege Ekun II, Arole Iganmode-Olofin, Olofin Apesin Olode, the Olota of Ota-Awori Kingdom, belongs to the latter category. On Friday, August 28, 2026, when the drums of celebration sound in Ota, they will not merely announce that a man has completed six decades on earth; they will celebrate t
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