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What went wrong Sowore?
I and Mr Peter Claver have been friends since the late 80s. Peter Claver and Omoyele Sowore were in the Student Union Exco of the University of Lagos in the days of the annulment of June…
It’s Time to Tame the Shi’ites Menace
Without further delay, the federal government must immediately contain the menace posed by the Shia Movement by whatever means possible, writes Olawale OlaleyeThe last few weeks had maintained an uneasy calm in the city…
Amcon should name chronic debtors now
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, which acquired about 13,800 non-performing loans from banks in 2010 eventually had N5trillion debt to recover from the debtors nationwide. Some notorious deadbeats…
Just take a bow, guys
Anybody who is interested in studying the quality of leadership in Nigeria and why our country is perpetually stuck in underdevelopment would have learnt a great deal from the…
Between Atiku’s gaffe and Adeleke’s allocutus
Atiku Abubakar and Adedeji Adeleke are two particularly angry Nigerians and their anger is well-placed! While the former was a presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic…
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…