Abiodun Komolafe

Abiodun Komolafe writes in from Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State, Nigeria

Osun, COVID-19 palliatives and Nigeria’s unpolished politics

In the last few days, the social media has been besieged by a trending video of the looting of warehouses in the premises of...

Bishop Kukah and the Fractured Microcosm

Let me start this rather short Tribute by stating that the story of my contact with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and my eventual employment...

Much ado about Osun LG elections

The Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) has announced October 15, 2022 as the date for Local Government and Local Council Development Area elections across...

Nigeria, Political Choices and Consequences

To those who have been asking for my views on the last Osun governorship election, let me confess that the keenly contested election is...

The Mafia Paradigm

Bureaucracy is a systemic form of administration. Since there is a universally acceptable standard benchmark, a deviation from the ideal type reveals the unintended...

Nigeria and the politics we play!

The founding fathers of politics in Nigeria came with some ideals girding them. To begin with, one would discover that almost all of them...

Osun ‘guber’ and Oyetola’s fulfilled mandate

“You (Governor Oyetola) are doing well. You will complete this term and do another term.’        – HRM Oba Munirudeen Lawal, Timi of Ede As a...

Osun guber, APC primaries and other stories

When we were growing up, we were treated to the fact that, whether things were convenient or not, elections, globally, were contests; that membership...

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