Tag: Alade Rotimi-John
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A grievous midterm scorecard – By Alade Rotimi-John
No greater significant comment can be made regarding the midterm performance of the Tinubu presidency than the pervasive sense of angst or of vague anxiety respecting a general area of social concern.
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Objectifying Afenifere’s poise, purpose and provenance – By Alade Rotimi-John
We open with the immortal words of Winston Churchill respecting the unassailable trajectory of Afenifere: “The truth is incontrovertible; panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.” (Substitute Afenifere for “it.”) When at its founding in 1951, the Action Group as a new political party
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Ifangelism: The challenge of a resurgent cosmology – By Alade Rotimi-John
The endorsement by the Oyo State government of the Ifa divination choice of Prince Abimbola Owoade as the Alaafin of Oyo is undoubtedly an official confirmation of the continuing relevance of an old-time practice in the present tense.
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Politics in Nigeria as didactic heresy – By Alade Rotimi-John
A major feature of the practice of politics in Nigeria since 1999 has been its glaring departure from the norms of its professed purpose and the difficulty or important implications for scholarly criticism.