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The journey started with being born to Chief Oduola Osuntokun, cabinet minister, Western regional government from 1955 to 1966 straddling the government of Chiefs Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola. This biological fact was reinforced with being portentously named Akintola. There was absolutely nothing wrong with this name until the Action Group, AG, crisis broke out […]
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, February 25, 2025, a very toxic but innocuous advertorial was published in the Punch newspaper. It was authored by a group which called itself De Renaissance Patriots Foundation. Entitled Systematic Marginalization of Lagos State Indigenes, and signed by Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (rtd.) and Yomi Tokosi, the advertorial explains the legislative gangsterism currently going on in Lagos State, […]
Continue ReadingThere is a royal family in Lagos called Oniru. In the earliest times when there was no Lagos and Eko knew its boundaries, that family owned all lands that house today’s Awolowo Road, the prime area called Falomo, Tafawa Balewa Square, the Independence Building, Island Club, Yoruba Tennis Club, et cetera, et cetera. Add Oyinkan […]
Continue ReadingOne of the grandchildren of the late General Sani Abacha attacked General Ibrahim Babangida last weekend in an angry post on X. Titled, ‘My grandfather saved the life of a coward’, it features a photo of Babangida and Abacha holding hands. But the first line carries the punch: “If the lifespans of these two consequential figures were reversed, this treachery […]
Continue ReadingMoonless and mournful, the serene night was pierced by the hoots of an owl perching atop HillTop coven owned by the sad and sadistic Old Soja called Aibibi. In the bowel of his coven, the retired general lay crippled by the weight of his guiltiness, lips twisted out of shape like the butt of a […]
Continue ReadingIf a lost love is what you are currently grappling with, I will tell you this. The best way to handle a love that you have lost to someone else is to give the “lovebirds” all the time and space they need to do their thing. It’s painful, I know, but if you keep standing […]
Continue ReadingThe most important event in Nigeria in the last week has been the publication and public presentation in Abuja, of a book titled A Journey in Service: An Autobiography of Ibrahim Babangida. In many ways, this should be perfectly understandable. General Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler (1985-1993), although he styled himself President, to show as he argues […]
Continue ReadingSince Thursday when his autobiography, A Journey In Service, was launched, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has taken center-stage of national attention. The autobiography reminds me of James Hadley Chase’s Make the Corpse Walk. It is the story of eccentric millionaire, Kester Weidmann, who in his weirdest best, believed money could buy everything, life […]
Continue ReadingBlack History Month, being observed this February in the United States and many other countries around the world, including Nigeria, affords one the appropriate opportunity to share some thoughts on the rather consequential subject of systemic racism – racism of the kind that is not ad hoc, but seems built into the system itself. The […]
Continue ReadingIn five parts, thirteen chapters, six appendices, including an interview; a prologue and an epilogue, he sought to give a definite definition of himself. But, for me, the deepest insight into the person of General Ibrahim Babangida is not in his expensive book (it fetched him billions; I bought a copy for N40,000). The greatest […]
Continue ReadingAs soon as I laid my hands on Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s autobiography, ‘A Journey in Service’, there were only two things I was eager to read: the June 12 annulment story and the murder of Dele Giwa, one of the finest journalists out of Nigeria. There were many landmarks that defined the IBB era […]
Continue ReadingSomething exciting happened at the Super Bowl, which was held about a week ago in the United States of America. About nine players of Nigerian descent played in both teams: two for the Philadelphia Eagles (Moro Ojomo and C.J. Uzomah), who won it, and about seven for the Kansas City Chiefs (Felix Anudike-Uzomah, Charles Omenihu, […]
Continue ReadingAs Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu had a reputation for squeezing water from a stone by extracting taxes from even the most unlikely people. Stories still abound in Lagos of how menacing tax collectors forced struggling market women and small and micro businesses to pay taxes. For Tinubu, the end always justifies the means. And the […]
Continue ReadingToday in Abuja, ‘A Journey of Service: An Autobiography’, by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, will be publicly presented. With the book coming 32 years after Babangida ‘stepped aside’ in August 1993, it means that more than 70 percent of Nigerians were not witnesses to the events in the narratives, given our young demographics. Like everything Babangida, as […]
Continue ReadingProstate cancer is the second most common cancer among Nigerian men and ranks as the third most common cancer overall, after breast and liver cancer, when considering both genders. However, it remains a significant concern for many men recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, who have inundated this portal with questions about potential connections between colon and […]
Continue ReadingWhen I heard that female waist beads are a sexual turn-on for some men, I thought to myself that women with traditional/old-fashioned lovers do not realize the major bedroom headache that God has removed from their lives. The times are getting more twisted by the day, and the bedroom isn’t spared. So many sexual fetishes […]
Continue ReadingThere are some people who should not die, because of their goodness, their humanism, the great impact that they make within the community, family and sometimes, the nation at large. The death of good men or women diminishes us, a part of us leaves with them, but what endures ultimately is the lesson of their […]
Continue ReadingAfenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, died on Friday. He would have been 100 years old if death had not been too fast; if it had waited three more years plus two months. An age of almost a century is a huge haul, a boon anywhere. Yet, when the 96/97-year-old’s death was announced four days ago, […]
Continue ReadingMr. President, over the last 15 months, your country, America, has subjected the people of Gaza to mass murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing. You armed, assisted and enabled the state of Israel to murder, by your own admission, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza, the vast majority of whom were women and children. […]
Continue ReadingAs I wrote this piece, the wake of a young lady, Beverly, was ongoing. She died in a ghastly motor accident currently while travelling to Ebonyi State to serve a nation (in the National Youth Service Corps) that cares nothing about her and her family. Her father is a Keke Marwa (tricycle) driver, and her […]
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