VOICE OF COURAGE

I came into office in October 1979 with a set of my own rich native dresses and left office in December 1983 with same set of dresses; no addition and no subtraction. I had two personal cars at the time I assumed office but left without…

My first encounter with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was in his office as the Vice President of Nigeria in 2005. It was during the disagreement with his principal. As I entered his office, I noticed that the whole place was a Siberia of sort, as…

IN this peculiar political lunacy season in Nigeria, a lot of uninformed commentaries have taken the open space. One of the issues the mostly spiteful commentators ranging from an intellect-damaged professor to yahooligans and internet…

I was ruminating on the death of democracy which the recently concluded elections in Nigeria represent when the sad news on Sunday came to me from Bola Akanbi that my friend and brother, Professor Pius Adesanmi, was among the dead…

As the remains of Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti laid in state at his Imaria residence that fateful evening in 2006, Mr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) beckoned to me and said: “Beko is cold in there. I recall all our struggles burning tires all over Lagos to…

APART from court jesters, palace comedians and lickspittle fake intellectuals mouthing anti-corruption nonsense, serious-minded Nigerians know that what we have witnessed in the county in almost four years now is mere anti-corruption…

MY friend and brother, Olusegun Adeniyi, made me roll on the floor years ago when he wrote this joke about God wanting to destroy the world again and mistakenly gave the contract to build an ark to a Nigerian Noah. “And the Lord spoke to…

Permit me to publish this piece for today’s edition. I find it timely. I’ll be back next week. —Odumakin By Jude Obuseh THE widespread aversion, in some quarters, to incumbent President Mohammadu Buhari’s…

AS Nigeria looks forward to the February 16 presidential election, one nagging question I have encountered from many Nigerians who have accepted that we live under a dictatorship has been “will Buhari leave power if defeated?” I consider…

It is with the heaviness of heart that I write this in the middle of the night as I reflect on your total transformation to the “Next Level” of genuflecting sycophancy, which has been the pathetic story of ex-radicals that the Nigerian…