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VOICE OF COURAGE
Memo to Yoruba Governors (2)
“Do not remove the ancient landmarks that your fathers set”-Prov 22:28.Yoruba nation continues to remove the precious landmarks established by our forefathers in the order of strange children. A people known for being the first in noble…
Memo to Yoruba Governors (1)
THERE is a worrisome situation of serious underdevelopment in Yorubaland due to poor governance with even little possibilities within the existing dysfunctional structures not being explored.A restructured Nigeria along federalism has…
Moments with Iku and GSM
I didn’t die! It was a pleasant week started with Iku Baba Yeye, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. His palace is always an exciting place to be anyday, because of the richness of Yoruba culture that is always on display.As I…
Drone ko, drown ni
THE Yoruba nation must have gone through some regret as one of its first class monarchs in a childlike manner brought out a campaign poster of President Muhammadu Buhari under his agbada and grinning from ear-to-ear as he had moment with…
LKJ: The Governor of Lagos @ 90
A course mate of mine, Bayo Fabiyi, had some celebration in his house a few months back and invited me to his house somewhere in Lagos. As I made my way to the place on the fateful day, I needed a little assistance for direction at some…
Aeroplane “driver” and our free fall
AMERICA never knew what ordinary tuber can cause until 1992 when Vice-President Dan Quayle was visiting Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey, and forayed into facilitation of a spelling bee. William Figueroa, age 12, was called…
When Eni Ogun meets Eniogun
‘The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny’THOSE immortal words of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka were produced by his experience in the gulag for his opposition to the senseless war Nigeria fought against…
Osun verdict: Technicality defeats justice
“The judge should appreciate that in the final analysis the end of law is justice. He should therefore endeavor to see that the law and the justice of the individual case he is trying go hand in hand... To this end he should be advised…
The true meaning of Ruga
IT’S a monumental tragedy for Nigeria that our conversations in the last four years have mostly been about barbarism. At a time when even African countries are manufacturing vehicles that would not consume fuel, we have been bogged down…
Abnormal now our new normal
THE words of my Danish journalist-friend have been rushing back at me lately. Nick was in Nigeria when we started the latest experiment in civil rule to access state of things in a country rising from Sani Abacha ruinous years, with a view…