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June 6, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Nigerian public officers and the Akpabio syndrome

by Akin Osuntokun Out of office and in futility, they aspire to shield themselves with the power of raw cash and aim to install their successors and other successive governors…

May 30, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Gospel according to Osuntokun, Sani and Aliyu

by Akin Osuntokun Were the country not acutely divided over the 2011 and the fraught 2015 elections, the Boko Haram insurgency would have been readily containable. Contemporary Nigeria is…

May 23, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: In Nigeria, dictatorship dies hard

by Akin Osuntokun There is a sense in which the failure of President Shehu Shagari and the relative success of President Obasanjo can be explained in terms of their individual…

May 9, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: We are paying the price for the annulment of June 12, 1993 election

by Akin Osuntokun To recap — we are paying the price of the folly of the annulment of the 1993 presidential election. June 12, 1993 was the day military President…

April 25, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Our governor has gone mad again

Acute stress disorder, Adjustment disorder* Amnesia Anxiety disorder* Antisocial personality disorder* Bipolar disorder* Borderline personality disorder* Brief psychotic disorder* Delirium Delusional disorder* Disorder of written expression* The first prognosis…

April 11, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: The nuisance value of a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket

by Akin Osuntokun It is provocative and fraught with the danger of lending its platform, wittingly or not, to sectarian bigotry, chauvinism and conflagration. One of the novelties of the…

April 4, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: The difference between the Lamido of Adamawa and I

by Akin Osuntokun Stung and exasperated at the tendentious attitude of the Southern delegates at calling the unity of Nigeria to question and at worst actively wishing the disintegration of…

March 28, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: The crude oil identity

by Akin Osuntokun Rather than endeavour to free our minds from the shackles and incapacitation of the bondage of crude oil, it is tragic to note that some Nigerians who…

March 21, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Two things the National Conference must achieve

by Akin Osuntokun It has to satisfactorily address the military misbegotten political and governance structural imbalance and duly seek and secure the voluntary consent of Nigerians in a referendum. “In…

March 14, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Why I publicly identify with Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala

by Akin Osuntokun Here in Nigeria, we are confronted with a similar tragic correlation where opponents fervently wish that it should not be well for Nigeria so that the Jonathan…

March 7, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: What has Buhari done to mediate in the Boko Haram conflict?

by Akin Osuntokun If any was needed, the proof positive of Obasanjo’s hegemony was the unfettered discretionary powers he had and exercised to determine who would succeed him as president.…

February 28, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: The improbable banker and the unlikely President

by Akin Osuntokun I contend that it is absolutely possible to take the whistleblower saga out of the equation and still find sufficient cause to sanction the suspended CBN governor.…

February 23, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: The good roads in many South-west states come at what cost?

by Akin Osuntokun Everything about the contemporary state of Osun State is fevered and frenzied. From the superfluous rechristening of Osun State to the state of Osun; to the self-destructive…

February 7, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: For every Dangiwa Umar, there is Ango Abdullahi

by Akin Osuntokun Personally I cannot wait for the day when my sense of dignity will be enhanced by the knowledge that Nigerians no longer need to prostrate before the…

January 31, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Gen. Aliyu Gusau, the spy who loves Nigeria

by Akin Osuntokun The return of Gusau to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan as minister (of defence?) is pregnant with meanings. In the ensuing months of a testy political…

January 24, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Tambuwal lacks principle and political fidelity

by Akin Osuntokun He is today the most passionate canvasser for the APC and has endeavoured to persuade me to join his party. This mission has ended in flare ups…

January 17, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: The two faces of January in Nigeria’s history

by Akin Osuntokun If January 1st was the day Nigeria was born, January 15th, was the date it was sentenced to death. January was so named in honour of the…

January 10, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Enemies of the President who disguise as friends

by Akin Osuntokun I’m convinced beyond any reasonable and unreasonable doubt, that the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, is a closet enemy of the president. If she has any iota…

January 3, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: With Buhari and co, the APC cannot afford to demonise Akintola

by Akin Osuntokun Why was I calling the South-west wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) political descendants of Akintola? I did not — I’m not in the business of…

December 27, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: It’s time to move away from the Awo-Akintola political hangover

by Akin Osuntokun Equating Yoruba interest with membership of APC is self-serving and abusive. As far as Yoruba identity politics goes, there should be absolutely nothing that qualifies Tinubu as…

December 20, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: From Nelson Mandela to Bode George

by Akin Osuntokun To be screened and get certified as free of HIV is definitely a better medical status than suspected carriers who are yet to undergo verification. What I…

December 13, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Sam Omatseye’s lies and propaganda against Momiko

by Akin Osuntokun I have for some time now imposed on myself the mission of campaigning against the resort to demonisation as a rough and ready tool of flagellating political…

November 15, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: The APC & CPC call the PDP evil, but there are no different

by Akin Osuntokun You might have heard that it was the same political personality namely Chief Bola Ige , that authored the outline of the constitution of the three…

November 2, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Between Stella Oduah and Peter Ekeh

by Akin Osuntokun And it is with this reluctance that I presume to judge the stewardship of Miss Oduah as Minister of Aviation; and even at that, I’m enlisting her…

October 25, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Nigeria’s shift from Awo to federalism

by Akin Osuntokun The lesson to learn from the return of Al Mustapha is that Nigerians are spiteful of one another and care less for each other’s sensibilities. This behaviour…

October 18, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Where does the South west go from Awo?

by Akin Osuntokun Lagos State has the appearance an impregnable fortress for the APC but a lot is hanging on how the departure of Governor Babatunde Fashola is managed. And…

October 11, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: All have sinned… an allegory

by Akin Osuntokun The case of the incumbent president is a bit tricky. There is an adage that says ‘never call a man great (or failure) until the end of…

October 4, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: How fares the Northern hegemony

by Akin Osuntokun As the virulence of the Abacha dictatorship unfolded, it became clear that Northern military-regional hegemony had run its course and had given way to heedless and malevolent…

September 27, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Nuhu Ribadu’s choice as candidate from the ‘North’

by Akin Osuntokun To make myself clear I wholly subscribe to Chief Awolowo’s prescription of decentralised federalism as the optimal political configuration for Nigeria. I’m not confident that our status-quo…

September 20, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: The rebellion of the godsons

by Akin Osuntokun We have saved the big masquerade for the last encore. And in so doing I hope I’m not liable to the charge of speaking ill of the…

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