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“But she spoke the truth.” That is the most common retort among the diehard fans and devotees of Mrs. Kemi Badenoch — leader of the UK Conservative Party — who has been obsessed with saying nasty things about Nigeria since she made her way into the front row of British politics and started glowing under […]
Continue ReadingMost of those who have commented or are commenting on the Dele Farotimi-Afe Babalola saga have not read the book at the heart of the story: Farotimi’s Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System. I have. I bought a digital copy from Amazon last week, and spent four hours slowly reading – more appropriately, perusing – the […]
Continue ReadingNigerians who feel slighted by UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch’s disparaging comments about their country are free to respond to her in whatever manner suits them. When someone like Badenoch makes denigrating comments about Nigeria, it is its people who suffer the indignity of such talk. A country might be an abstract entity, but […]
Continue ReadingIn a chilling report released on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), N2.2 trillion was paid to kidnappers as ransom between May 2023 and April 2024. Titled, ‘The Crime Experienced and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) 2024’, the report revealed that as many as 91 per cent of kidnapping incidents in the country were to extract ransom, while 2.4 per […]
Continue ReadingThere appears to be panic and deep pain in Afe Babalola’s actions since the publication and sales of the new international bestseller, Dele Farotimi’s book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System. It became a bestseller precisely because the all-powerful Mr Babalola is determined to stop Nigerians and the international community from reading it. Apparently, no one […]
Continue ReadingHe needs no ushering exordium. In the last few weeks, his name has been an intense tintinnabulating trend on the social and mainstream media in Nigeria. Pugnacious and polemic human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, hails from my hometown of Imesi-Ile. We are a closely knit community of cerebral and industrious men and women […]
Continue ReadingIn these desperate times, where men face endless “play away” options, every man who values his family should take a moment for serious self-reflection. There is a pressing need for sexual discipline among married men, as nothing communicates disrespect to a wife more than a husband’s sexual recklessness. As social media increasingly preaches the “cheat […]
Continue ReadingTwo major meetings were held over the weekend that just passed that have implications for the future of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the possible resolution or otherwise of political developments among member-states in the last two to three years, with implications for the future of the sub-regional organization. ECOWAS was […]
Continue ReadingContrary to assertions by some so-called experts who have been prattling all week that Dele Farotimi wrote what he could not logically substantiate in his book Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System, this was a pre-meditated confrontation. Having depleted the legal means to get justice, he wrote to re-litigate the case in the court of […]
Continue ReadingThe moment I stepped out of church last Sunday and checked my phone, I saw a missed call from my friend, Mustapha Sanah (HRH Dalun-Lana Tapha Mahamadu II). He had left a terse message: “Prepare for inauguration.” I surmised that former President John Dramani Mahama and candidate of the main opposition National Democratic Coalition (NDC) had won […]
Continue ReadingLast week’s arrest of good-governance activist and lawyer, Mr Dele Farotimi, in Lagos by police from Ekiti State got many Nigerians angry for many reasons. Farotimi was arrested based on the petition by Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, that Farotimi defamed him in his book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System. The uproar was not because […]
Continue ReadingGhana has taught both Nigeria and the US a masterclass in electoral integrity and democratic maturity in its just concluded election. For Nigeria, the takeaway is that electoral integrity is the cornerstone upon which trust and order rest. When an election is conducted with the meticulous precision of a weaver at a loom — its […]
Continue ReadingOne of the tenets of a democratic society is the assurance of freedom of speech and expression for its citizens. This includes the right to speak and criticise in order to ensure that society does not derail in upholding its values. The test of democracy is not at the point of comfortable tolerance of these […]
Continue ReadingI was quite ecstatic about Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous slaying of the Goliath of the British establishment and emerging as the head of the Conservative Party and is now leader of the Opposition. I felt disappointed by the rather lukewarm reception of this great news especially in Nigeria and Africa. I drafted this opinion piece and […]
Continue ReadingPaul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in North-Central Nigeria, who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure. It was his role as a dad that endangered his job as a judge. One night around 1983, Anyebe caught his son attempting to steal from his […]
Continue ReadingChina, Corruption and the Death Sentence The former Chairman of the Bank of China, Liu Liange, was recently sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, having been found guilty by a Shandong Province Court of accepting $16.8 million in bribes, and issuing illegal loans to unqualified companies causing a loss of about $27 million. He was […]
Continue ReadingAdeola was a destitute woman with neither a surname nor a known relative who died at 1:15 p.m. on Friday, 29 June, 1888 at the Colonial Hospital in Lagos. She was buried at 4 p.m. the following day at Ereko Cemetery, Lagos. The manner of her death on Friday and burial on Saturday was to […]
Continue ReadingFor Dele, Christmas day is coming fifteen days earlier on December 10th. His present ordeal represents a climax of the crucial role he has played in the political firmament of Nigeria. He will be rapturously celebrated on that day. The first time I encountered him was as the lawyer who perfected the title of a […]
Continue ReadingWhat I would call a routine conversation with a former Nigerian leader inspired this write-up. After expressing his concern about certain developments in the polity, the retired general said he was worried about how Nigerians keep promoting ethnic and religious sentiments at a time the country needed all the unity it can afford to make […]
Continue ReadingIn Nigeria and beyond, there has been a surge of support for Dele Farotimi, the lawyer, author, and publisher who was reportedly taken from his Lagos home by the police last week and transported to Ekiti State. Farotimi was alleged to have committed civil offences against Afe Babalola, a fellow lawyer and founder of Afe […]
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