Tunji Olaopa

Changing “Public” in Public Services and Implications for Reforms in Nigeria

Tunji Olaopa The public service has been at the core of the theories and practice…

Civil Service Reform, Not Rocket Science: Avoiding Mistakes of Past Reforms

Institutional reform advocacy is essentially about critical optimism in the face of significant institutional dysfunction.…

A Philosopher’s Imaginary Dialogue with President Tinubu on Nigeria’s Future

Dialogue has always been a fundamental means by which philosophers communicate philosophical ideas. One reason…

My Memoir and the Paradox of the Nigerian State

Let me start with a statement that all Nigerians feel in their existential struggles to…

National Change Management Triggers and Landmines for the President Tinubu Administration

Almost all Nigerians, as well as Nigeria’s political class, recognize that Nigeria is a great…

Remembering the Aworeni Clan of Ile Ife

This piece, for me, is an exercise in hagiographic historical reconstruction, as well as a…

Fred Onyeoziri, Analytical Orientation and Political Science Scholarship in Nigeria

The older generations of political science scholars are already going to the place of the…

President-elect and the Government of National Competence in Perspective

Part of the various emotional attempts to undermine the last electoral process that threw up…

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Appointment with Destiny

The concept of destiny is one that is very charged, philosophically. Within the Yoruba cultural…

Review of Olaopa’s The Unending Quest for Reform: An Intellectual Memoir

My name is Fatai AyindeAremu, professor of political science, and founder, Research Enterprise Systems, (RES),…