By; Jerome-Mario Utomi I cannot situate exactly how I first encountered this phrase: “Strange liberators”, but I think it was while studying the words and speeches of Martin Luther King Jnr where it was used as a title for a piece on the role played by the American government in …
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PDP 2018 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY: FORETELLING THE OUTCOME
By Omoshola Deji Nigeria’s main opposition political party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) lost power to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015, after ruling the nation for 16 years. As the 2019 presidential election race gains speed, the PDP has vowed to regain power in 2019, but two …
Read More »THE TALL ORDER: THE OSUN STATE ELECTION AND LAGOS POLITICS IN RETROSPECT
Agada Ikechukwu Nigeria’s democracy is in for a “Dejavu” with the Elizabethan intrigues unapologetically put on display in the south-west the penultimate week. Those in the know stands at attention whilst discussing in hushed tones the maverick chess game obviously imported from the celestial bodies; an intonation for rocket science. …
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