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Chapter 2 of COVID-19 Football: A Kante Assertion
As things stand, N’Golo Kante will not play any part in Chelsea’s Premier League campaign should the Premier League return to action. Although I do not consider myself a sorcerer of…
COVID-19 guide for dummies
Have you heard any of these statements before? They did not even give me any medication yet they said I had COVID-19. What they treated me for was malaria. Patients at isolation centres in Nigeria are eating, drinking and dancing…
Almajiri as Assets and Curses
In April 2015, barely two weeks after the presidential election when the then newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC) was waiting to take over the reins of power…
The rise of American Idiot
On 20 May Donald Trump said that having one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks was a “badge of honour.” What kind of idiot would think that having the highest death toll in a…
Muhammadu Buhari: Facts are stubborn things
Next week, the Muhammadu Buhari administration would be exactly five years in office. Four full years of a first term, and one year accomplished in the second term of…
Mad as Madagascar
In the fight against COVID-19, the war between biology and economics has just expanded to the nationalist front, spilling over with the ferociousness of a zero-sum game. Madagascar President, Andry Rajoelina, believes that the…
Between Buhari, Adesina, and Gambari
“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. – William Shakespeare. This describes a campaign of calumny in the form of an old article in the 12th July, 2008, issue of The Sun newspaper making the rounds on…
2023 in the eye of COVID-19
Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections…
Welcome to Fire, Prof Gambari
In the 1960s, when Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari was an A Level student at the King’s College, Lagos, the Yoruba students always had a good laugh anytime his…
R.I.P., the American Economy
*Trump’s America is Facing Unparalleled Economic Disaster By Umair Haque See that chart above? That’s the American economy, dying. It shows retail sales across the…
Abacha loot as a Metaphor
The social media is an exciting space, always buzzing with life. One moment, guys are swearing at one another, the next instant they are making peace amid unusual comradely. That is the…
We’re Implementing New VAT Rate, Not Raising Prices – MultiChoice
Pay television company, Multichoice Nigeria, has dismissed reports that it is set to increase subscription rates for its DStv and GOtv packages from 1 June. The company…
Before Gambari is crucified
Whatever public reaction Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari expected of his appointment as President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Of Staff (COS), he probably didn’t imagine the…
If you can’t take blows, don’t throw blows
Let me start by giving due credit for this headline, which is not original to me. I lifted it from the 1983 song by reggae star, Peter Tosh, in the album titled Mama Africa. The song is Glass House, and it goes thus: “If…
Nigerian Politics: The conspiracy of the elites
According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, elites are groups of persons who by virtue of position or education exercise much power or influence. They are usually regarded as…
In Africa, Trump’s fate is worse than a laughing stock
In a recent article in The Atlantic also widely used elsewhere, American journalist, Anne Applebaum, described the pathetic meltdown of US President Donald Trump,…
Executive (dis)order
ON Sunday, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike demolished two hotels in Port Harcourt for allegedly flouting his executive order on lockdown. The state like many others is on a…
Wike: Playing the Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada was the Ugandan military officer who served as the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. During his reign as the President, he was ruthless, merciless, in fact, he was…
What ails Wike?
IN the Rivers front, COVID-19 appears to have birthed a severe strain of another gubernatorial virus. So, it’s politic to ask: what ails Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike? This question…
Nyesom Wike: Our governor has gone mad again
If the gods want to punish a people, they either invoke plagues on the land or deploy agents of slaughter as leaders. The gods are not happy with Rivers state, obviously, hence the…
Memo to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo
Your Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you would recall that when the coronavirus pandemic began to take its toll on the…
Between freedom, coronavirus and money problems
We need to impose on ourselves the freedom of conscience in the pursuit of our daily bread. Remember, for our sword, we should wield our sanitizer …! On this one, we are on our own HONESTLY, judging by everything going on…
Boko Haram: Voice of Shekau, hand of Salkida
The Boko Haram crisis in North-East Nigeria means different things to different people. While to some, it is a war against Nigeria, few others perceive it as propagation of their ideals. For another category, however, it is just a business…
As Trump muddies the waters of COVID-19
As if the coronavirus pandemic that has virtually turned the world upside down with the grisly daily bulletin of deaths and more deaths and misery and…