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If history were a child, the Yoruba would insist on calling it an Abiku. History keeps climbing the chimney and, in Wole Soyinka’s voice, yelling at us: “I am Abiku, calling for the first/ And the repeated time.” And with J.P. Clark’s opening glee, his entrance chant, history revels in “coming and going these several […]
Continue ReadingThere is a growing trend of people intentionally releasing false news to the public and later withdrawing, deleting it or keeping quiet when it is proven to be false. This is rampant on social media. Those who are most guilty of this are those who work for politicians directly or indirectly and those who want […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu is confronted with two identity fights united by politics. His political opponents have kept him busy with matters of personal identity and paper qualifications. Everything from his parentage, educational background, university records, work and career trajectory to his National Youth Service record is up for hostile scrutiny. No one knows how the […]
Continue ReadingI still do remember growing up, my father waking, and shaving with the BBC. Against a background of the bleep-bleep-bleep signal of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s World Service, he would do his private chores, and prepare for work. The BBC Foreign Service having fortified his appetite for “real news,” he would then switch to the […]
Continue ReadingWhoever writes history must necessarily bend it in their favour. It’s one reality about capturing history and the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, knew it. He said history would be kind to him because he would write it. He did, and his volumes are among the classics by which we gauge […]
Continue ReadingMy father, Pa Bisi Odesola, is a retired builder. He owned a little construction concern, Bisi Builders, which constructed a number of buildings in Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki, Ajah and across the country. He exposed me and my immediate younger brother, Biodun, to site life at tender ages. Don’t get it twisted, please; we were […]
Continue ReadingThe ex -Governor of Ekiti state, Dr. John Oluwakayode Fayemi, from Isan Ekiti has admitted what we knew all along, that liberal democracy is not working in this country. He has previously served as governor of Ekiti state between 2010 and 2014 and also served as Minister of Solid Minerals Development under President Muhammadu Buhari […]
Continue ReadingLast Sunday, ‘Premium Times’ reported that President Bola Tinubu had decided to appoint Olanipekun Olukoyede as the substantive chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A legal practitioner, Olukoyede served as secretary of the commission for two years before he was suspended along with Ibrahim Magu (then acting chair) and a few other […]
Continue ReadingAbout three months after they were introduced, she said she was pregnant and he was acting funny about it. So, I asked to speak with him. From his response, he was not ready for the “baby phase” of the relationship. I also perceived that he hasn’t even decided if she’s actually the one for him. […]
Continue ReadingThe Charleston Gazette was an American newspaper that was born in 1907 but stopped bearing that name in 2015. One of the newspaper’s 1952 editions contained a piece with a clause that may have been written for Tinubu’s Nigeria: “Chicago, that’s an old Indian word meaning ‘get that elephant out of your room’.” Someone said coincidence is […]
Continue ReadingWho is the man who today sits atop the presidency of Nigeria? What is his name? Who are his parents? Who are his childhood friends? What was his childhood like? What primary school did he attend? Where did he attend secondary school? Or, the university? Is he a criminal? Is he a serial forger? On […]
Continue ReadingThe day I met Gregory Sallust, everything changed. It was in my first year in secondary school, and somewhere, I stumbled on a work of fiction called ‘Faked Passports’, by Dennis Wheatley. His Sallust was a British spy who was on the run, his plane having been shot down in Nazi Germany. People – particularly […]
Continue ReadingMay I, at this point, humbly retract certain claims I made in my article, ‘Tinubu and Atiku: Birds of a Feather’ (THISDAY, June 12, 2022), months before the 2023 presidential election. In it, I claimed that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar “are friends, associates and two peas in a pod”. I traced […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, once again, this is not the best of times in our dear beloved country, Nigeria. After we had thought, gladly and gleefully, that no government could be worse than the recent Buhari administration, we are now confronted by yet another monstrosity. In less than two months in power, Tinubu’s government started collapsing whatever […]
Continue ReadingWith the United States court mandating that Chicago State University release some of President Bola Tinubu’s records, Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate and Tinubu’s rival in the last general elections, won a moral victory bigly. While this might not translate to legal gains in the upcoming Supreme Court, many Nigerians seem thrilled by the […]
Continue ReadingLast Friday in Las Vegas, United States, Duane Keith Davis, popularly known as ‘Keffe D,’ was arrested after a grand jury indictment for murder with use of a deadly weapon. Although Davis was brought to court yesterday, his arraignment was deferred till 19 October while he remains in custody. He will be tried for allegedly killing Tupac Shakur, the legendary American […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Peoples Republic of China share the same National Day, October 1. Perhaps, one other thing that Nigeria shares with China is a relatively large population. Nigeria has the largest population in Africa while until it was recently overtaken by India, China was the most populated country in the […]
Continue Reading“Everything we own here on earth is only on a lease to us. It would pass on to others when we die. The best decision that the wealthy should make is to remain detached away from the glamour and ego of their wealth and create happiness for themselves, through habitually giving and giving to society’s […]
Continue ReadingBoth pro- and anti-Tinubu news outlets and blogs are selectively reporting the documents that Chicago State University handed over to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday. Here are 6 non-partisan tidbits I discovered from poring over them: 1. Chicago State University’s Office of the Registrar affirmed that Bola A. Tinubu indeed attended the university “from August […]
Continue ReadingWhere witches contend and exchange punches, mere men do not stand by to watch. But part of the job of a journalist is to see and report; sometimes he runs commentaries on bouts – not minding if the pugilists are gods or principalities. There is an ongoing offshore Bola Tinubu versus Atiku Abubakar rumble-in-the-jungle, a […]
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