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O Nami!
I stopped following Tere’s ministry about 37 years ago that I saw him driving a commercial bus and would therefore not be able to say precisely the progression. But I am certain he would have become an Oluomo at some point.He was my…
What is wrong with Amaechi?
There was a year the Faculty of Health Sciences in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife recorded an unusual mass failure of students that caught the attention of the Students Union. A protest was mounted against the leadership of the…
Sowore and allegory of a rat that saw tomorrow
Many commentators on the attempted abduction of rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, right inside a courtroom of the Federal High Court, Abuja by men of the State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services, (DSS)…
Operation bankrupt Nigeria
THE ant once shared a night of passion with the elephant and woke up the following morning to discover the bedmate was dead. Mr Ant was in tears as he lamented “Just one night and I will now spend the rest of my life digging a grave.”In…
Rubber stamp bringing guillotine
ON a day myself and a brother sat glued to the TV watching the Intelligence Committee of the US House of Reprentatives putting the microscope on the actions of President Trump, the Nigerian Senate President, Ahmed Lawan (sorry Senator…
Let my people go!
IT was by chance that I stumbled on Gambia TV a few days back and I stayed glued to it for the next one hour as Mr Bardara Joof, the country’s minister for Higher Education, Research and Technology was addressing critical stakeholders on…
Ranti omo eni ti iwo nse
NON-speakers of Yoruba language should pardon me for this week’s headline. It simply means remember the son of whom you are but it is sweeter in my native tongue. The ‘Chief Commander’, Ebenezer Obey has one of his evergreens in that line…
Atiku Abubakar: Constant as Northern star
A brief stopover at Dubai on my return from a trip to China afforded me the opportunity to meet with former Vice President of Nigeria and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the last presidential election in…
There was never a country
The last testament of one of the greatest novelists Africa ever produced, Professor Chinua Achebe, on Nigeria was There Was A Country. It was a moving story of the disintegration of the very idea of a country in Lugard’s creation.I read…
Gbese: Between Buhari and Shagari
Gbese (debt) is not a thing to be proud of in my neck of the wood. An onigbese (debtor) does not command much respect in any gathering. In fact, he goes through the inner way if he sees his creditor afar. But my country is so shameless when…