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Buhari and his leopard’s skin
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…
What is a revolution?
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…
Radicalising the South-West
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…
Pastor Adeboye must rue this
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…
Rage of the Shiites…
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,…
Politicians kill, judges bury…
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…
Why is power supply rocket science here?
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…
Dear Governor Kayode Fayemi…
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…
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…