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From Fayemi, a response
John Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti State, has responded to this column’s “Eventually, Fayemi wins the argument...” of 9th June.In so doing, His Excellency, or his media handlers more appropriately, played clever by half,…
Supreme Court verdict: Final nail in IBB, Abacha’s coffin
Great editors make great newspapers – Alhaji Nojeem Jimoh, the editor who recruited me into The Punch, while congratulating me on the Supreme Court verdict of Friday, 14 June, 2019.Penultimate Friday, the Supreme Court, which is the…
Eventually, Fayemi wins the argument…
There must be an end to litigation. So, an end came to litigation arising from the July 14, 2018 Ekiti State governorship election on Friday, May 24, when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, declared Dr. John Kayode Fayemi of…
Bye-bye Ambode; welcome Sanwo-Olu
According to Google, “All is well that ends well” is Shakespeare’s romantic story about Helena, in love with the unloving Bertram and the lengths she went to make it work. Set in France and Italy, “All is well that ends well” is a story of…
Should Nigeria legalise marijuana?
Penultimate week, Ondo State’s Gov. Rotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, literally turned himself into the Jamaican reggae idol, Peter Tosh (now late), when he asked the Federal Government to legalise the cultivation of marijuana or “igbo” as our…
Ganduje’s Solomon Grundy
Between the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, and the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who would you say is in the eye of the storm? Emir Sanusi is not new to controversies. In his days as governor of the Central Bank of…
What aileth thee, O JAMB!
“What can the matter be with JAMB? Is the Board going forward or moving backward?” “What else can JAM do but move backward? Be it bus or ‘molue’ or ‘danfo’ that jams, what you get is confusion, commotion, broken skulls and scattered limbs.…
Our ‘husband’ goes AWOL again!
Our ‘husband’ has gone AWOL again! He has done so times without number. According to some reports, he has spent one-third of his tenure on AWOL. For your information, AWOL means “Away Without Official Leave.” It is the same as “French…
Ambode’s last days in office…
As would be expected, a flurry of activities is hallmarking Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s last days in office. Last Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari was in Lagos on a one-day working visit during which he commissioned many signature projects…
Governor Oyetola must handle this
“But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream” – Amos 5:24.“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... I must confess that I am not afraid of the word ‘tension’... Freedom is never voluntarily…