Tunji Olaopa

An Encounter with Toyin Falola: Between Celebration and Canonization of Intellectuals

As is to be expected in any gathering of intellectuals, the recent special event to…

Funding Public Education in Nigeria: Towards an Alternative Financing Model

Funding Public Education in Nigeria, Alternative Financing Model, Tunji Olaopa, Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo…

2023 and Beyond: Unlocking the Binding Constraints to Policy Execution in Nigeria

2023 is significant in the annals of Nigerian history because it does not only signal…

The Nigerian Condition: Perspectives from a Nigerian Philosopher

Moving towards 2023, and beyond has become a task that, I believe, must generate all…

What Does Psychiatry Say to Nigerians? Celebrating the Humanity of Oye Gureje

Psychiatry as a discipline and a metaphor might, indeed, be more relevant to the understanding…

Post-2023: Deep Thinking the Leadership Function in Nigeria’s Future Transformation

Conversations and discourses about leadership are global events. And this is because leadership is the…

Stefan Dercon, ‘Elite Bargain’: Can the Nigerian Ruling Class Be Born Again?

The “again” in the title of this piece is of course, in a manner of…

Taking Lagos State Public Service Reform to the Next Level

Tunji Olaopa, retired Federal Permanent Secretary Professor,National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies Lagos State…

Olugbenga Ogunmoyela: Being an Omolúwàbí in the Midst of Cultural Anomie

Celebrating my knowledge and affinity with Professor Olugbenga Akin Ben Ogunmoyela certainly goes beyond the…

Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje: Man, Mentor, Monument

This is my fourth essay on Prof. Akin Mabogunje. And it is the only one…