The news publisher and activist may irritate the powerful, offend the cautious, and exhaust those who prefer gentler politics, but his characteristics are not crimes.
History rarely repeats itself in an identical form. It does, however, preserve patterns.
One wonders what conception of God permits such convenient arrangements.
When Bola Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, he embraced a neoliberal economic agenda built around market liberalisation, subsidy removal, currency devaluation, and fiscal austerity.
His work traversed political theory, governance, democratic practice, and electoral studies.
The news from Oyo should disturb the country’s conscience because it speaks to something larger than a single criminal attack.
Gumi has transformed himself into the itinerant interlocutor of armed gangs and violent extremists.
The Nigerian republic does not merely need judges learned in law; it needs judges incapable of being purchased by political vanity.
To frame President Tinubu as uniquely anti-democratic in Nigeria’s history is not to deny the flaws of those who came before him.
What the military hierarchy and the ruling party once dismissed with emphatic denials has now assumed the weight of undeniable truth.
