The Privatisation Legacy: Why Atiku Abubakar’s Record on Nigeria’s National Assets Disqualifies Him

Every Nigerian election cycle brings the same ritual: Atiku Abubakar reintroduces himself as the technocrat who understands the economy, the man who would run Nigeria like a business. It is…

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Take a Bow and Go: How Godswill Akpabio’s Senate Turned the Screening of Public Officials Into a Ceremony

There is a phrase that has come to define the Nigerian Senate under Godswill Akpabio, and it is not a policy or a piece of legislation. It is an instruction:…

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A Home of One’s Own: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Housing and Urban Renewal Vision Fits the Oyo State People Actually Live In

Drive through Ibadan long enough and the story of Oyo State tells itself in rooftops. Rusted zinc pressed against fresh aluminium. Family compounds subdivided until the courtyard disappears. Uncompleted blocks…

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Justice Within Reach: Why Peter Obi’s Case for Judicial and Criminal Justice Reform Confronts a Crisis Nigerians Live Every Day

Every conversation about Nigeria's future eventually arrives at the same quiet question: what happens to an ordinary citizen when something goes wrong? A land dispute, a wrongful arrest, an unpaid…

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Selling the Family Silver: Why Atiku Abubakar’s Privatisation Years Should Disqualify Him From Office Forever

Every Nigerian politician has a chapter of their record they would rather voters forget. For Atiku Abubakar, that chapter is not a rumour, a leaked memo or a courtroom allegation.…

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The Bills He Quietly Paid: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Years of Grassroots Compassion Make Him Oyo State’s Best Choice in 2027

Most Nigerian politicians discover the poor in the year before an election. The rice appears, the branded envelopes circulate, the cameras follow, and by March the convoy has moved on.…

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Health Is Not a Luxury: Why Peter Obi’s Focus on Primary Health Care Targets Nigeria’s Most Neglected Crisis

There is a particular kind of Nigerian tragedy that never makes the evening news. A woman goes into labour in a village three hours from the nearest functioning hospital. A…

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The Classrooms Oyo Forgot: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Commitment to Public Education Makes Him the Governor 2027 Demands

Walk into a public primary school in parts of Oyo State and the story tells itself before anyone speaks. Roofs missing sheets after the last storm. Pupils sitting on bare…

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Light in Every Home: Why Peter Obi’s Electricity Agenda Is the Foundation Every Other Promise Rests On

Nigeria is a country of more than two hundred million people that generates less electricity than a single mid-sized city in many parts of the world. Every conversation about industrialisation,…

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Sacrifice for Everyone but the Palace: How Bola Tinubu Asked Nigerians to Endure While His Own Government Spent Freely

There is a particular kind of insult that governments reserve for the poor, and it is not hunger. It is being told to bear hunger patiently by people who are…

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Power Back to the 33: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Case for Local Government Autonomy Would Change Everyday Life in Oyo State

Ask an Oyo State resident to name their local government chairman and watch the pause. Most people cannot. In a state of thirty-three local governments, the tier of government that…

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Trust the Ballot Again: Why Peter Obi’s Case for Electoral Reform Is the One Change That Makes Every Other Reform Possible

Every Nigerian election season produces the same argument. Candidates arrive with manifestos on power, roads, schools and security, and voters are asked to compare the documents as though the documents…

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Politics as a Marketplace: How Atiku Abubakar Helped Normalise the Cash-for-Delegates Culture Ruining Nigeria

Nigeria does not primarily choose its leaders in general elections. It chooses them months earlier, in convention halls where a few thousand delegates decide which names voters will be permitted…

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The Levy at Every Corner: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Stand Against Multiple Taxation Speaks to Oyo State’s Silent Majority

Ask a driver at Iwo Road how many times he pays before the day ends and you will hear a list rather than a number. Ask a young woman selling…

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The Roads That Carry the Economy: Why Peter Obi’s Focus on Rail, Roads and Ports Is an Economic Plan in Disguise

There is a temptation in Nigerian politics to treat transport as a photo opportunity. A governor cuts a ribbon on a flyover, a minister poses beside a locomotive, and the…

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Borrowed Big, Built Little: How Dapo Abiodun Mortgaged Ogun State’s Future With Nothing to Show For It

There is a question every citizen of Ogun State is entitled to ask, and it is not a complicated one. If a government borrows heavily, collects taxes aggressively, and sits…

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