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The Digital Mirage: What Osun 2026 Reveals About the Gap Between Online Noise and Electoral Reality

akinolaniyanSOCIETYAugust 16, 2026

The re-election of Governor Ademola Adeleke was a high-profile as elections come in Nigeria with the dominant narrative being that the ruling Sll Progressives Congress (APC) was hell-bent on taking the state. The political emotions aside though, the Osun 2026 …

The Altar and the Algorithm: Pastor Adeboye and the “Black Hole” of Digital Outrage

akinolaniyanBLOGJune 12, 2026

The past few weeks have seen the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, in the eye of the storm with his name and that of the church trending across Nigeria’s digital public …

The Lunch Date That Took 22 Years: Arsenal, Loyalty, and the Promise Finally Kept

akinolaniyanBLOGMay 21, 2026

Unless you have a clear understanding of why you are a fan in the first place, supporting a football club that appears to have specialised in promising hope without delivery can come with a particular kind of torture. I am …

Blessing CEO and the Theft of Suffering

akinolaniyanSOCIETYApril 10, 2026

There is a particular kind of fraud that the digital age has perfected, and it is not the one involving hacked bank accounts. It is more intimate. It feeds on human sympathy. And when sympathy is weaponised – when a …

Detty December, Afrobeats, and Nigeria’s Counter-Narrative of Joy

akinolaniyanSOCIETYDecember 27, 2025

Somehow Christmas 2025 got me thinking and I have to confess, I agree with those who think the best way to deal with persistent but erroneous narrative is not a counter-argument, but a parallel reality. If that questionable narrative has …

The Prophetic Marketplace, Spiritual Capital and Political Transaction

akinolaniyanSOCIETYDecember 16, 2025

The controversy around the leaked text message between Primate Elijah Ayodele, the founder of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church and Minister of Power Bayo Adelabu is not simply scandalous but a classic study into political desperation and clerical audacity. Beyond …

AKIN OLANIYAN

The Digital Mirage: What Osun 2026 Reveals About the Gap Between Online Noise and Electoral Reality

The Altar and the Algorithm: Pastor Adeboye and the “Black Hole” of Digital Outrage

The Lunch Date That Took 22 Years: Arsenal, Loyalty, and the Promise Finally Kept

Blessing CEO and the Theft of Suffering

Detty December, Afrobeats, and Nigeria’s Counter-Narrative of Joy

The Prophetic Marketplace, Spiritual Capital and Political Transaction

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