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“Good morning Uncle Dele. Message I have for you and Pastor Ituah is that Ibidun has finished what God sent her to come and do on earth and she had to leave. She was an ANGEL that God sent to come and sort Pastor Ituah out when he needed help. Those children needed to have […]
Continue Reading“One of the swiftest ways of destroying a kingdom is to give preference of one particular tribe over another or show favour to one group of people rather than another. And to draw near those who should be kept away and keep away those who should be drawn near,” Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio. As a […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, the Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, rued the recent death of his Deputy Chief of Staff, Mikhail Jare Adebisi. In eulogising the deceased, the governor said, “We would have flown out Adebisi for treatment, but for the COVID-19 pandemic.” The startling lack of irony with which the tone-deaf governor declared what they […]
Continue ReadingOn 2nd October 2017, I used the metaphor of a cow with wooden leg to illustrate the story of Nigeria in a presentation titled, “A Nation on the Edge: Which Way Nigeria?” at ‘Platform Nigeria’. It is a programme of the Covenant Christian Centre hosted annually by Pastor Poju Oyemade in Lagos. The question I […]
Continue ReadingDemocracy Day (DD) celebrates liberty to choose and elect those who volunteer to serve. Conversely, DD damms and condemns military dictatorships which suffocated Nigeria and Nigerians for half of its 60 years of independence. From 1881, when Lagos was forcefully annexed through successive century brutal British colonial/military campaigns with its trade marks of sorrow, tears […]
Continue ReadingExperts 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 are billed to hold in Nigeria in 2023, in line with constitutional provisions. If, in the worst-case scenario, COVID-19 subsists beyond 2022, what then does the future hold for dear country? The more reason Nigeria’s politicians, as at today, should worry about how to ensure that we have a country […]
Continue ReadingThe announcement of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Nigeria’s nominated candidate for the position of the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which would now be vacant by September 1, 2020, and not 2021, following the incumbent’s decision to take his exit a year earlier was received with great excitement among Nigerians. This enthusiasm […]
Continue ReadingLast week a bill was presented to the House of Representatives, entitled “Geo-political Zones of the Federation Bill 2020”. It was sponsored by Kpam Sokpo (PDP, Benue). It aims essentially to enshrine the Six Geopolitical Zones in our Constitution, with “North Central” being renamed “Middle Belt”. The Six Geopolitical Zones were first proposed by the […]
Continue ReadingThe reality of spending too much time at home together will forever remain in the hearts of many couples after this pandemic as this was what some could only have been dreaming of before the situation. Time which was once so treasured and filled with other important commitments and perhaps rarely available to share with […]
Continue ReadingOur paths crossed in 2014. I was about to set up TheCable online newspaper. The biggest challenge was getting a good editor to take charge. Having practised journalism for over two decades, I wanted to take the back seat and concentrate my energies on other businesses. But unable to get a suitable candidate, I began […]
Continue ReadingCarol Onyemaechi Akinloye (née Ebenuwa 29 July 1959-27 May 2020) was a woman I had read and heard so much about before our paths crossed later in London. She was a stuff of fairytales. There were many fables about her whirlwind romance with Chief Adisa Akinloye and as we compiled stories for the maiden issue […]
Continue ReadingLagos State lawmakers are evidently clowns. These guys, 40 in all, got so excited last year and decided that their wives should be sent to Dubai for a bizarre training programme. They quickly dipped their hands into the public purse, brought out N80 million and gave their baby girls; and the girls beamed to Dubai […]
Continue ReadingLately, a federal lawmaker from Borno State, Ahmed Jaha, walked back his comments that women who wanted to avoid being raped should learn to dress decently because — and this is according to him — “men are not wood.” The comments were reportedly made during a plenary session while the House of Representatives members deliberated […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian story is a heartbreaker. We seem, as a people, to perpetually engage in monstrous deceit in rationalising why our country is failing. It’s usually an exercise in intellectual thuggery or mental dribbling of self. This orgy tends to climax at anniversaries. As June 12 began to approach, I hoped for a place of […]
Continue Reading“…If I shut up Heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people…” – 2 Chronicles 7:13 The World is now experiencing plagues of Biblical proportions; Covid-19 Pandemic, the locust invasion of India and of course Donald Trump stirring up […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the collapse of apartheid regime in South Africa early 90s, United States of America (USA) remains an undisputed leading failed state when it comes to race and racial relations. This is the only 21st century Republic, where some humans are endangered species on account of their non-white skin colors . The color- blind country […]
Continue ReadingIn most countries, including those with high crime rates, men of the underworld avoid killing police personnel because it would bring too much trouble. In Nigeria, criminal gangs not only engage police in frequent combat, they sometimes target them for attack before carrying out their nefarious activities. The situation is so bad that on 23rd […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump of the United States was as active as ever on Twitter yesterday as he continued the rhetorical assaults on his angry fellow citizens protesting racism. The American president elected to do that on the day of the funeral of George Floyd rather than douse the fire on the streets with a unifying […]
Continue ReadingSince February 27, 2020, when the first index case of COVID-19 was reported in Nigeria, and that satanic, virulent virus overwhelmed our lives, Nigeria has had cause to deal with other convergent afflictions: the first in my view, is the pandemic of irresponsible governance as evidenced by the kind of poor leadership responses that we […]
Continue Reading“The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic “The former administrations wantonly wasted the state’s resources. Just to go to Abuja, they spent N50m. It is there on record….. If you take N50m […]
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