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There is a huge noise over Chief Bisi Akande’s autobiography released on Thursday, December 4, 2021 in Lagos. I have not read the book. But I have read what the media says the book contains. I have also read the book review by a brilliant professor of English at the University of Ibadan who spiced […]
Continue ReadingThe much awaited verdict of the Supreme Court on the appeal filed by the sacked chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, will bear resonance in the polity beyond the party. Seondus is contesting the legality of his removal from office as well as the convention of the party, which has produced […]
Continue ReadingIn the past week, many Nigerians have been outraged by the death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, a JSS2 student at Dowen College, apparently an upscale school in Lekki, Lagos. The circumstances of his unfortunate death are unravelling, but from what has been published in the public domain so far, his demise might be connected to […]
Continue ReadingJames and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of the prime suspect in the recent deadly shooting at a Michigan (U.S.) high school, were charged last Friday with involuntary manslaughter. The alleged crime of the Crumbleys is that despite tell-tale signs that their teenage son could commit murder, a gun was carelessly left within his reach. In addition, […]
Continue ReadingNYSC In January, 2017, I wrote a piece titled “Has NYSC Run Its Course?”. It was about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme which was established by the NYSC Decree No. 24 of May 22, 1973 during the regime of General Yakubu Gowon, as a one year programme for fresh University graduates “to promote […]
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, October 13, 2017, there was an uproar when the then World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, innocently announced that President Muhammadu Buhari asked his bank to focus its developmental programmes on northern Nigeria. “In my very first meeting with President Buhari, he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region […]
Continue ReadingThe death of Sylvester Oromoni, a JSS 2 Student of Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos under controversial circumstances, has understandably sparked outrage – with both parents and other concerned citizens expressing shock and anger. Sylvester Oromoni Jr’s death speaks to the failure of the Nigerian school system, the collapse of morals and the evil that […]
Continue ReadingWhat I find highly frustrating in discussions of certain killings in Nigeria is the assumption that the deaths were about “money rituals.” In instances of violent murders where the motive remains unclear, people allege ritual killings. The tendency to immediately conclude that certain instances of homicides are ritual killing could, unfortunately, be providing an alibi […]
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, I did something I had not done in Lagos since 1999: I rode in a public bus. I had taken my car for service at Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja. I was told it would be ready “in two hours”. I thought to wait at the reception to do some office work. But as […]
Continue Reading“Not after death, and they know themselves. They have done it in his lifetime. Their mothers knew they did in his lifetime so why would I want to forge that – to the point that he wrote in his will specifically that a lady has two kids for him but only one (the lady had […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Sam Ortom is angry with the people of Benue State. And last Saturday, he publicly expressed his feelings at the commissioning of a Pentecostal Church in Makurdi, the state capital. Before we get to what he said about his people, let’s begin with the issue. Ortom accuses Benue people of peddling unfounded allegations about […]
Continue ReadingGroup Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Malam Mele Kyari, said on November 23 that the Buhari regime will inflict yet another pain at the pump by jacking up petrol prices to N340 per liter in February 2022. If this materializes, it would be the fourth time the regime has increased […]
Continue ReadingLast week, as Minister of Information and Orientation, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, was engrossed in his theatrics over the Lagos EndSARS panel report; I was wrapped in sobriety as I listened to Manchester-based UK pop group of artists called the Hollies. Renowned for being one of Britain’s leading musical groups of the 1960s and into the […]
Continue ReadingA month from now, it will be over for the year 2021, and a new year will be born. The Bantu people say the road does not tell the traveller what lies ahead. Is that also true here? I do not think so. We have trodden this crooked road long enough to know its offerings. […]
Continue ReadingAs a sequel to the #EndSARS protests last year, the National Economic Council advised all State Governments to institute judicial commissions of Enquiry to probe allegations of police brutality in the country. Based on the advice the Federal Government and 28 State Governors set up judicial commissions of inquiry to probe sundry allegations of police […]
Continue ReadingIn recent times, there has been concern over reports of a lady who was said to have died from a snake bite when she was using the toilet in her apartment leading to many asking how that could be possible. Indeed, snakes can get into toilet bowls through the connecting pipes and pits outside the […]
Continue ReadingSigmund Freud remains one of the most creative, dramatic and significant contributor to the field of modern psychiatry especially through his famous theory of psychoanalysis in explaining varied forms of abnormal behavior. Of particular relevance to this discourse is the dual – drive theory in relationship to human sexuality. He described sexual drive as the […]
Continue ReadingI salute the courage of Joke Silva, wife of legendary actor Olu Jacobs, for publicly revealing that her husband is battling what she called “dementia with Lewy Body.” “It is a degenerative disease that affects the brain, and is almost like Parkinson’s disease,” she said. “It affects the brain and affects the person.” My heart goes out […]
Continue ReadingThe popularity and credibility of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration seemed to have started to wane almost from its inception; and six and a half years later, one and a half years to the end of the administration, it may almost be an impossibility to redeem its image – its ratings and that of the APC […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I had a most unusual interview with a man I had always described in the last three decades as the ultimate Crown Prince, Abdul-Lateef Kolawole Abiola, the son of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. We’ve been friends ever since and I had written countless stories about him but this is our longest and […]
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