Tag: By Lanre Ogundipe
Ibadan Summit/Jamboree: When Political Movement Is Mistaken for National Renewal, By...
There is a Yoruba proverb whose wisdom travels far beyond tribe, language, or region: Àjànàkú kò ní tí kó máa rìn, àmọ́ ẹsẹ̀ rẹ̀...
Tax Reform Without Trust Will Fail, By Lanre Ogundipe
Nigeria’s 2026 tax reform arrives not as an isolated policy choice but as a fiscal inevitability shaped by years of structural weakness in revenue...
Can Nigeria produce new leadership? From recycling power to renewing p...
If Nigeria’s political challenge were merely about individuals, it would be easier to resolve. Replace one set of leaders with another, and progress might...
The voter’s complicity: How citizens sustain the system they criticise, By...
If the persistence of familiar faces in Nigeria’s political space is troubling, it is not sustained by politicians alone. Systems do not reproduce themselves...
House of the People or House of Deals? When representation becomes...
A legislature, in its purest conception, is not merely a lawmaking institution; it is the moral compass of a nation. It is where competing...
The Tinubu Enigma: Power, Strategy and the Nigerian State [Part 5],...
The Engine of Power — How Tinubu Builds, Sustains and Reproduces Influence
Political analysis in Nigeria often reduces power to moments—elections won, offices occupied, alliances...
When defection becomes doctrine: Law, power and the alliance of convenient...
Nigeria’s political evolution has produced many paradoxes, but few are as revealing—or as consequential—as the phenomenon of cross-carpeting. What was once exceptional has gradually...
Diaspora, Diplomacy and the Danger of Ethnic Projection, By Lanre Ogundipe
In moments of high-level diplomacy, nations speak in carefully calibrated signals. Protocol, presence and even absence are read for meaning. In Nigeria, however, these...
From Festival to Fear: When culture loses its moral guardrails, By...
What has unfolded in Ozoro, Delta State, must not be misread as an isolated disturbance. It is a layered governance failure—one that exposes the...
“Gold, lithium and guns: Nigeria’s hidden resource war”, By Lanre Ogundipe
A foreign legislature may debate Nigeria’s illegal mining crisis, but the more urgent reckoning lies at home. The uncomfortable truth is no longer debatable:...
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