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In the judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered on May 9, 2020 in the case of Ude Jones Udeogu v Federal Republic of Nigeria (unreported Appeal No SC. 662C/2019), section 396 (7) of Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 was declared illegal and unconstitutional. The section had empowered a newly appointed Justice of […]
Continue ReadingOrdinarily, extroverts own society and introverts tiptoe around it. But coronavirus and the attendant lockdown has flipped the order upside down. Introverts now reign supreme. Though they want their reign to be short-lived —what a paradox! — they can at least lounge around with a smirk while it lasts. The chemistry between the two personality […]
Continue ReadingThe Board of Governors and the Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank (AfDB) have given Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the Bank’s President, a clean bill of health in a report dated May 5, wherein it is stated that Adesina has been “entirely exonerated of all allegations made against him.” The background to that development is […]
Continue Reading“Say she looking into my eyes and she seeing designer Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana (Dolce & Gabbana) Dolce & Gabbana (Dolce & Gabbana), yeah” David Adeleke, popularly known as ‘Davido’, is the son of my brother, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke. Davido is in a sense my son and I take him as such. The 27-year old […]
Continue ReadingI have had reasons to re-think ‘happiness’ as most of us understand it. A French philosopher (Charles de Montesquieu) once said, “If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.’’ […]
Continue ReadingThe Muhammadu Buhari government is demonstrating an admixture of bravado and nervousness. I offer three pieces of evidence from last week. One: Abubakar Malami, Attorney General and allegedly Minister of Justice, who appeared on Twitter to announce the repatriation of the $311 million to Nigeria in Abacha loot by the US and the Bailiwick of […]
Continue ReadingYour 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 Nigerian economy, President Muhammadu Buhari set up the Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) and made you the chairman. Your brief, according to media reports, is to help work out […]
Continue ReadingRe: Open Letter To Fayemi – How Negligence, Lack of PPE and Oxygen killed my Mum at EKSUTH Dear John, Your open letter on the above stated was brought to my attention. First, I commiserate with the entire Oluwadero family on the demise of your mum, Mrs. Oluwadero Deborah Bolanle at the Ekiti State University […]
Continue ReadingDear Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Exactly 12:31pm on Tuesday 21st April, my Mum went to be with the Lord at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) Ado-Ekiti accident and emergency department. For us as a family, we have found strength in the assurance of her eternal rest, and so we rather rejoice for a life […]
Continue ReadingOn April 30, news filtered out that President Buhari had given final approval for the implementation of the Steve Oronsaye committee report, which was commissioned by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to look into the proliferation of government agencies, many with duplicated or lavishly overlapping functions. At some point, the figure we had was 541 […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I am excited to report to you the feedback I got from my article last week, May 2, 2020, titled TIME TO PROTECT NIGERIAN COMPANIES AND JOBS. Reactions were varied but instructive. A few of the names I mentioned, who I had not seen or heard from for many years, reacted directly to […]
Continue ReadingAmid the Nigerian conundrum and the raging Covid-19 pandemic which has seized our attention is a breath of fresh air, the soon-to-be-inaugurated Dangote Petrochemical Refinery. It was Kahlil Gibran in The Garden of the Prophet who wrote this powerful poem long ago but it speaks perfectly to the Nigerian conundrum today. Here it goes: “Pity […]
Continue ReadingPublic discourse has naturally shifted to permutations about the next chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, following Abba Kyari’s death. One newspaper reported that 26 persons, including current and former ministers, governors and senators, were already jostling for the position of chief of staff. What will or should the Buhari presidency look like after […]
Continue ReadingWithout a shadow of doubt, Nigeria is endowed with men and women with requisite cerebral competence that can shake up and reawaken the soul of the nation from its manifold and multifarious doldrums across all spheres. Nigeria is blessed with characters who exude irrefragable capableness that can help bring the nation’s ship back on the […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Kaduna State Police Command demonstrated probably their swiftest response to any petition ever when they arrested self-professed atheist and president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, Mubarak Bala, over his Facebook posts that mocked certain religious truths. The petition to the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Habu Sani, was signed by one […]
Continue ReadingThe ‘Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, 2020’ sponsored by the Speaker, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila and two other members (Pascal Obi and Tanko Sununu) was last week rushed through first and second readings in the House of Representatives. Rather curiously, members were not provided copies of the legislation until motives of the sponsors were called into […]
Continue ReadingGiven the fact that we are still commemorating the fifty-year anniversary of the January 15th 1966 coup, I have decided to write a follow-up essay to last week’s column. It is interesting to note the fact that virtually every single one of those who actually carried out the killings and pulled the triggers during the […]
Continue ReadingMy response to her was ‘men are not always in the mood’ for lack of a better answer. Sometimes, the ‘right words’ fail even a wordsmith. Otherwise, her concern is one that numerous ladies have continually expressed. “How does a man switch off (and then, on) on a spouse effortlessly?,” she asked me. We all […]
Continue ReadingThis is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since the Federal Government placed Lagos and Ogun states, and the Federal Capital Territory on a lockdown on account of […]
Continue ReadingOn the matter of re-opening the economy now, Nigeria is left at that dangerous road junction where native doctors place sacrificial offerings. It is a place of deathly choice: if we stay locked down, we will die in installments. If we reopen and face the hazards of Covid-19 with courage and creativity, we might live. […]
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