Tunji Olaopa

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),…

Tunji Olaopa’s Vision of Nigeria as a Nation

Professor Tunji Olaopa declared in the concluding chapter of his fabulous memoir, The Unending Quest…

The Public Academic in the Eyes of Change: No Time to Cry

 Professor Tunji Olaopa is the quintessential academic with high socio-political values, a deep sense of…

Olaopa: The Self as a Patriotic Reformer – The Tales of a Memoirist

Autobiographies and memoirs are very difficult to write. One of the reasons is that they…

Overcoming Policy Execution Trap as Nigeria’s Development Challenge

By Tunji Olaopa If I am asked to give a succinct and apt summary of…