The North and The Politics of Consumption
Babayola M. Toungo If the North’s decline is indeed the consequence of a profound failure of leadership, as argued in my last article, then the next question becomes unavoidable: how Continue Reading
The North Did Not Fall. It Was Betrayed
There are moments in the life of a people when history demands an accounting. Not an accounting of budgets or election results, but of ideas, values and leadership. Such moments Continue Reading
Stalling the North, Hurting Nigeria
A nation’s development is often measured not by the speeches of its leaders but by the strategic choices they make. Governments reveal their priorities not through campaign slogans or policy Continue Reading
When the Powerful Rewrite the Rules, Nigerians Pay the Price
Nigeria has spent decades fighting corruption. Governments have launched campaigns, established commissions, created special courts, and repeatedly assured citizens that accountability remains a national priority. Yet corruption has neither disappeared Continue Reading
Politics Above People
The North appears once again to be drifting into another national election cycle rudderless, leaderless, and tragically devoid of coherent vision. A region that once produced some of the country’s Continue Reading
Party Primaries: The Aesthetics of Consensus and the Politics of Imposition
What Nigeria increasingly calls “consensus” in party primaries is, in many cases, neither democratic compromise nor political maturity. It is often a carefully choreographed performance – an aesthetic of unity Continue Reading
When Parties Stand for Nothing
Nigeria’s democracy suffers from a profound crisis that is too often ignored because it has become normalized: the near-total absence of ideological clarity within its political parties. What passes for Continue Reading
When Integrity Becomes Rebellion
Nigeria’s crisis is often explained in the language of economics, insecurity, or institutional weakness. But beneath all these lies a more fundamental collapse: the erosion of moral authority in public Continue Reading
The Politics of Political Overdose
In politics, victory often carries within it the seeds of future defeat. Parties collapse not only from weakness but sometimes from excessive strength. What appears as expansion may in fact Continue Reading
From Democracy to Domination
Democracy, at its core, is not merely the ritual of elections but the architecture of inclusion – an ever-expanding arena where voices, interests, and identities contend in pursuit of collective Continue Reading