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COLUMN BY ADEMOLA ADEKUSIBE: Tinubu’s Opposition Is a Political Mess, Atiku and Obi Are Wasting Their Time, and the South-East Risks Waiting 30 Years for the Presidency GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA: The Binary of Orunmila: Ifá, Computing and the Geopolitics of African Knowledge EDITORIAL: Nigeria Cannot Reform Without Pain. Is The Country Ready To Pay The Price Of Change? Ooni Marks 52nd Birthday, Calls for Peace, Unity and Progress in Nigeria CHINESE ENTRY INTO NIGERIA’S RETAIL MARKET: DOES YORUBALAND DESERVE A BREAK FROM IBO TRADERS? Tinubu Signs Bills Upgrading Kaduna Polytechnic, Yabatech to Federal Universities of Technology AKETI @ 70: MAKINDE’S ABSENCE AND AMOTEKUN’S POOR REPRESENTATION SEND A DANGEROUS SIGNAL ‘No Vacancy!’ Senators Send Strong Message as Akpabio Gets Backing for 11th Assembly Senate Presidency COLUMN BY ADEMOLA ADEKUSIBE: Tinubu’s Opposition Is a Political Mess, Atiku and Obi Are Wasting Their Time, and the South-East Risks Waiting 30 Years for the Presidency GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA: The Binary of Orunmila: Ifá, Computing and the Geopolitics of African Knowledge EDITORIAL: Nigeria Cannot Reform Without Pain. Is The Country Ready To Pay The Price Of Change? Ooni Marks 52nd Birthday, Calls for Peace, Unity and Progress in Nigeria CHINESE ENTRY INTO NIGERIA’S RETAIL MARKET: DOES YORUBALAND DESERVE A BREAK FROM IBO TRADERS? Tinubu Signs Bills Upgrading Kaduna Polytechnic, Yabatech to Federal Universities of Technology AKETI @ 70: MAKINDE’S ABSENCE AND AMOTEKUN’S POOR REPRESENTATION SEND A DANGEROUS SIGNAL ‘No Vacancy!’ Senators Send Strong Message as Akpabio Gets Backing for 11th Assembly Senate Presidency

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Geopolitics with Bolarinwa: How Sudan Became a Hub for Extremism in SubSaharan Africa

For much of the 1990s, Sudan occupied a unique and consequential place in the history of global jihadism.…

Ademola Adedayo

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Geopolitics with Oladimeji Bolarinwa: The Killing That Foreshadowed Boko Haram — How Sheikh Ja’afar Adam’s Assassination Exposed Northern Nigeria’s Coming Crisis

By Oladimeji Bolarinwa The assassination of Sheikh Ja’afar Mahmud Adam in Kano in April 2007 was more than…

Ademola Adedayo

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Tigray Is Burning Again, But Ethiopia’s Real Crisis Is Much Bigger Than Tigray

Column by Ademola Adekusibe What happened in Ethiopia this week should not be dismissed as another outbreak of…

Ademola Adedayo

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BEYOND THE HARDSHIP RHETORICS: POSITIONING YORUBALAND FOR A SHARE OF THE SPOILS OF THE ONGOING WARS IN UKRAINE AND IRAN

By Bolarinwa Ayoola “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” — Sun Tzu Since the outbreak…

Ademola Adedayo

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The City That Built the Yoruba World Is Erasing Its Own Earth

BLOCK BY BLOCK A weekly column on what Yorubaland’s fastest-growing cities are keeping, losing, and quietly deciding not…

Ademola Adedayo

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Nigeria Keeps Changing Leaders While the System Remains Broken

We keep searching for the next president, governor or political hero to fix Nigeria, while the institutions that…

Ademola Adedayo

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Beyond the Code: Can Tech Really Fix the Southwest’s Revenue Leakages?

By Oladipupo Ahmed The story usually begins at dawn on a dusty stretch of highway. Whether on the…

Ademola Adedayo

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GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA

Why Yemen Will Never Be One Country The deep history of a land that has never been a…

Ademola Adedayo

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GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA

Fault Lines: Terror in Northern Nigeria and the Fight for West Africa’s Center Terror in Northern Nigeria isn’t…

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REINVENTING YORUBA POLITICAL GENIUS

Bọ́lárìnwá Ayọ̀ọlá At the return of democracy to Nigeria after decades of military junta administration, stretching from 1985…

Ademola Adedayo

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GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA: RUGA: Inside The Policy That Nigerians Called a “Fulanization” Agenda

How a cattle settlement policy detonated a national political crisis and left millions questioning whether RUGA was ever…

Ademola Adedayo

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The Silent Demolition of Yorubaland’s Architectural Memory

By Oladipupo Ahmed Across Yorubaland, the physical landscape is changing rapidly. New roads, commercial buildings, residential developments and…

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Geopolitics with Bolarinwa: How Sudan Became a Hub for Extremism in SubSaharan Africa

Geopolitics with Oladimeji Bolarinwa: The Killing That Foreshadowed Boko Haram — How Sheikh Ja’afar Adam’s Assassination Exposed Northern Nigeria’s Coming Crisis

Tigray Is Burning Again, But Ethiopia’s Real Crisis Is Much Bigger Than Tigray

BEYOND THE HARDSHIP RHETORICS: POSITIONING YORUBALAND FOR A SHARE OF THE SPOILS OF THE ONGOING WARS IN UKRAINE AND IRAN

The City That Built the Yoruba World Is Erasing Its Own Earth

Nigeria Keeps Changing Leaders While the System Remains Broken

Beyond the Code: Can Tech Really Fix the Southwest’s Revenue Leakages?

GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA

GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA

REINVENTING YORUBA POLITICAL GENIUS

GEOPOLITICS WITH OLADIMEJI BOLARINWA: RUGA: Inside The Policy That Nigerians Called a “Fulanization” Agenda

The Silent Demolition of Yorubaland’s Architectural Memory

Independent Journalism for Our People

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