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On the Lord’s Day
Bode George’s un-win-able Tinubu war…
He who must destroy others to succeed must know that destruction awaits him at the gate of his (own) success –Nino Brown.PDP chieftain, Chief Olabode George, was recently reported as saying he would contest the 2023 presidency so as to…
OAU: Where integrity is two-edged sword
Three years ago, when Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede was appointed vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife) aka Great Ife, I announced that “another white man” had taken over at that great citadel of…
Much ado about Service Chiefs…
...and his bishoprick (office or charge) let another take – Acts 1: 20.The jury is in: A preponderant number of Nigerians want the Service chiefs dismissed from office. When we say “Service chiefs,” we mean the Chief of Army Staff,…
Who are the terrorists?
Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. – John Donne.RETIRED Geneneral Muhammadu Buhari was at it again recently…
If Britain could exit the EU…
IF Britain could exit the European Union, as it did close to the midnight of 31st January, 2020; if Eritrea could exit Ethiopia; if Southern Sudan could exit Sudan, then, there is nothing that says nations cannot exit nations. To say a…
Ihedioha’s Supreme Court abracadabra
MANY readers of this column issued me “queries” over what they described as my “criminal silence” on the Supreme Court’s abracadabra of a judgment in the Ihedioha/Uzodinma tussle over the Imo governorship, which the apex court awarded to…
Tinubu and the pangs of leadership
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown – A line from the play, King Henry the Fourth (Part Two), by William Shakespeare.ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ex- two-term Lagos governor and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives…
Amotekun: To be or not to be?
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo in Les Miserables.LES Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862. Set in the early 19th Century France, it is…
Seyi Makinde: My Man of the Year 2019
IF I were to choose my “Man of the Year 2019” from abroad, it would unmistakably have been US President Donald Trump. His many advertised shenanigans notwithstanding, Trump’s advocacy for the rights of Christians in an age where Christians,…
A president’s un-presidential letter
LET’S start by thanking Gen. Muhammadu Buhari who chose to address a letter to Nigerians on New Year’s day. I will refrain from calling Buhari “our” president because in the five years that he has been in the saddle, he has not behaved like…