Ismail Omipidan

BBC Yoruba and the limits of media propaganda

By Ismail Omipidan As a trained journalist, I hardly take on colleagues who genuinely make mistakes in the course of discharging their responsibilities. But when the mistake is repeated more than twice, it means a pattern is emerging and the…

West and Osun 2022 Governorship

By Ismail Omipidan Historically, the agitation to have someone from Osun West govern Osun State in the build-up to the 2018 governorship election was largely borne out of the perceived neglect of the zone in terms of infrastructural development. The…