Civics Weekly Online

By Toyo C. Ngem and Razaq Jimoh PREFACE Prince Idris Balogun (aka Oluomo Kaafata) is a successful man of Royal blood, a potential King for that matter. He is also a successful businessman in the private sector, even though he had also pushed a stint in public sector with appointment as supervisory councillor at the local government grassroots level. With all these to his favour, he has kept a burning fire of aspiration to serve the Alimosho people through political representation at the higher and local quarters. At the last 2023 General Elections, he could have achieved this if, in his words, he had “succumbed to temptations”. Thus to say in real term, he could have as well been a member of the House of Representatives representing Alimosho Federal Constituency today. But he chose not to be overwhelmed by any political desperation for the office, even though it was one great opportunity opened for him to despise his traducers and claim victory from his struggles against the pow...

By Razaq A. Jimoh We may think it a malicious script. It will still not be far from truth. Yet, it is all the same a truth that it was only the limit of his view that made the missive. I speak to the Apostle Yomi Taiwo's recent epistle on the series of Federal Appointments for some members of Alimosho Progressives unarguably known to have been facilitated by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDG), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire (OFR). Amidst the fanfare and joy of the recent last of it, which came to the Crown Prince of Isheri Olofin Kingdom, Idris Balogun (aka Oluomo Kaafata), the Apostle's seeming voice of the envy bursted in as a scribe of article entitled " Media Riddles: Unraveling the Intrigues Surrounding Olulmo's Senate President Adviser Position". In context, his message which appeared to have passed unnoticed on a popular politicians' secial media, raised critical issue of favouritism and t...