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The America Visa Ban: Some children, their uncle and candy control
The United States has placed a candy ban on some Nigerian officials. Atiku Abubakar took to twitter to celebrate: One child jubilating that an uncle has denied other children candy.I know Atiku Abubakar has been…
Makinde’s open asset declaration challenge
Bucking the legalistic trend, Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has openly declared his assets. His submission to the Code of Conduct Bureau puts Makinde’s worth at about N50 billion – his firms are worth up to N48.1…
Is Air Peace Safe?
..........Concerns Grow Over Frequent Safety Issues Air Peace is a private Nigerian airline that I’ve been fascinated by. The airline has been flying since 2013 primarily as a regional airline,…
UNILAG crisis: Devil’s in the detail
if gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul, no wonder common man should rust—Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) English poet and author. Evicted from heaven for pride and…
When We Go Low, We Go Really Low
On a visit to my mum years ago — this should be in 2009 — I saw an improvised battery-powered lamp on her table. It was mounted on a wood, probably six-inch long, with space for two AA batteries. There were several…
Atiku’s INEC server scam of the century
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party had eggs on their faces Friday as the theory of an INEC server, the pillar of their cases against President…
Apostle Suleman, Nnamdi Kanu, And FFK Are Merchants Of Dangerous Tribalism
Per Prof. Patrick Lumumba, people who are politically and intellectually bankrupt normally seek refuge in ethnicity and religion as their major fact of mobilization. The recent ethnoreligious…
OPEN LETTER TO FORMER PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Obasanjo presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Dear sir, I’m Kurtis Adigba, a lawyer, political consultant, and a citizen of Nigeria. I’m an idoma from…
Why it’s easy for pastors to rape
SERIOUSLY, we are indeed in the end of times. Many strange things are happening almost on a daily basis. If there’s anybody still doubting the reality of end-times, that person must be in another world and far from…
Season of hate
Out there, it’s high season of hate. Suddenly, it’s infra-dig to love. Bigotry, bounding and swashbuckling, is in high season. Love, across ethnic lines, high treason. Were it a new spike among the…
Oyo, Seyi Makinde and the “Solo Makinde” Syndrome
When it became clear that then PDP candidate Seyi Makinde was the ultimate shoo-in in the days leading to the last governorship election in Oyo state, a few analysts in Ibadan began to stretch narratives around the man’s…
Jewellery-crazy Diezani is Imelda Marcos’ distant cousin!
IMELDA Marcos, the 10th First Lady of the Philippines, turned 90 several years after she and her husband, Ferdinand, were booted out of office in disgrace in the Philippines. Aside the several…
El Rufai Is Wrong
I love reading my friend Mallam El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State. You may not always agree with him. You may not like his style. Some even think he talks too much. But here is a man who is…
Need to complete Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
WITHOUT playing down the importance of other major expressways, the 126.6-kilometre Lagos – Ibadan Expressway is easily the most important trunk road in Nigeria.The reasons for this are not farfetched. It is the main…
RUGA and the Obasanjo Connection
The UN World Habitat Forum was held in Vancouver, Canada in 1976. A principal outcome of the conference was a resolve that governments should as much as possible provide land for citizens to build…
Ruga: The hypocrisy in us
The dog whistle against the Fulani tribe is getting dangerously out of control. The Ruga controversy exemplifies this assertion. The anti-Ruga hysteria is a deliberate attempt to isolate and demonise the Fulani people.…
Rape and the Senior Pastor of COZA
COZA is the acronym of a church in Abuja, Nigeria, known as the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly. It is one of those Pentecostal churches that dot every street of Nigeria where the Pastors claim to…
And Busola Dakolo stepped forward
Many years ago a staff of the international humanitarian body, The Red Cross, gifted me with a small pamphlet on the trauma of war as recorded by red cross volunteers and staff around the world. I read about men in…
What does Mrs Fatoyinbo know?
After the news broke that Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly had “stepped aside” in the wake of rape accusations against him, people called for thorough investigations of the allegations to ascertain…
UNILAG CRISIS – FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP UNDER BABALAKIN’S WATCH
Any objective reader of the 2-page advertorial which appeared on pages 40 and 41 of the Guardian Newspaper of 26 June 2019 by a certain “Concerned Stakeholders” will, without any iota of doubt,…
Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, time to submit yourself for DNA test
Like everyone else I read this disturbing matter in the Newspapers, and I have never met you or the victim in this case. My name is John Egbeazien Oshodi, born in Uromi, Edo State, Nigeria; I am a…
A nation perpetually in crisis
If you were born in the early 1980s, it is safe to conclude that since the day you started brushing your teeth by yourself, you have only known a conflict-prone Nigeria. You are almost 40 years…
The rage against Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari
On the 24th June 2019, an unusual political activity took place in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. A public demonstration staged by an obscure political group that gave its name as APC…
Ahmed Lawan, Festus Adedayo and the APC Mob
Senator Ahmed Lawan is the incumbent Senate President of Nigeria, having won the election into that office, 79 -28, beating his rival, Senator Ali Ndume of the same ruling All Progressives…