On the Lord’s Day

I religiously read Gov. (Engr.) Seyi Makinde’s “100 Days: Restoring glory to Oyo State” published to mark his first 100 days in office, a rite that came with the introduction into Nigeria of the America-styled presidential system of…

ACCORDING to Google, “structural-functionalism or, simply, functionalism, is ‘a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability’...This approach looks at both…

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything. – Albert EinsteinIn all who keep silent in the face of tyranny, the man dies – Prof. Wole Soyinka.If there…

Words and terms are often bastardised; which was why Karl Marx and Frederick Engels chose to call their seminal manifesto “The Communist Manifesto,” instead of “The Socialist Manifesto” because, in their own reckoning, various…

THOSE who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable –US President John F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Alliance for Progress, 13 March, 1962.Hereditary bondmen! Know ye not (that) who would be…

WORK on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway has been going on, on-and-off and at snail’s speed for God-knows-how-long. Even the king of dullards know that this is the most important road in the entire country; its economic value, not to talk of the…

The whole history of progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom and yet,…

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice—Proverbs 21: 3How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?—Psalm 82: 2If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent…

PENULTIMATE Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari gave a veiled thumbs-down on his immediate past Minister of Power, Babatunde Raji Fashola; it was on the occasion of the visit of the Edo monarch, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Ewuare II, leading a…

LAST week, I published Governor Kayode Fayemi’s rejoinder to my piece “Eventually, Fayemi wins the argument” of 9 June. The rejoinder was signed off by one of his media aides, Segun Dipe. Having fulfilled my promise to publish Governor…