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I received this message from a young lady some time back: “After my dad died some years back, my mother didn’t want to stay in the village anymore. She said that she didn’t want to stay alone. And we began to look for work for her. Through the help of my uncle (who was sponsoring […]
Continue ReadingA man once shared a personal experience with me. He said he met a wealthy woman through a mutual friend shortly after returning from abroad, at a time when he was struggling to find his footing financially. The lady wasted no time inviting him to her base in Abuja, offered him accommodation in her house, […]
Continue ReadingBorno State, North-East Nigeria has been the epic centre of Nigeria’s longest running war between the Islamist terror group, Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihad, commonly known as Boko Haram and the Nigerian state. Founded by Mohammed Yusuf, a radical Salafi cleric in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state around 2002, Boko Haram, an anti-western civilisation […]
Continue Reading“What a country? “Which country? “What other country do you think I could possibly be talking about? Nigeria, of course.” “Baba Gbeborun. Community Radio! O ya, shoot. I am all ears.” “What my eyes have seen, what my ears have heard, my mouth cannot tell.” “Leave that one. Tell me. There is no matter so […]
Continue ReadingWith Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State invoking ‘Operation Wet ẹ’ at the Ibadan gathering of the ‘Participating Opposition Parties in Nigeria’ (we can also help them by adding the acronym, POPN), Nigerians do not need anyone to tell them that another desperate season is already upon us. Makinde warned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) not to play pranks with […]
Continue ReadingPith. Some say wistfully that the alliance has come four years late. Its optimistic supporters insist that a ticket promising equity, unity and prosperity is never late. It was first mooted in 2022, but bloated egos would not let it thrive. Fortunately, the last elections cleared some delusions. Perhaps the alliance has arrived at its appointed […]
Continue ReadingHave you been following recent events in Kwara state? You don’t know what you are missing. As the 2027 elections draw near, the north-central state is shaping up for another round of the unfinished heavyweight bout between Mr AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and Dr Bukola Saraki. I can bet my laptop that both men will throw everything, […]
Continue Reading“Where you have a warrior culture, you have heroes.” That is how the unusual character of Ibadan is explained on page 856 of Professor Toyin Falola’s 1,012-page history of the city. My eyes caught the line as I watched Saturday’s opposition political summit in the city. Opposition politics in Nigeria is post-apocalyptic, its script reads […]
Continue ReadingI was at Ada, Osun state, the other day, for the funeral ceremony of the founder and proprietor of the iconic Micom Golf and Hotel Resort, Prince Michael Ayantunde Ponle. Naturally, I went to commiserate with the widow, former deputy governor of Osun state and my admission officer at the faculty of social science, University […]
Continue ReadingThe Owode Onirin saga is one that should trouble every Nigerian who still believes in the possibility of justice, especially for the ordinary citizens. On 27th August 2025, a day the traders of that sprawling motor spare parts market now call ‘Black Wednesday’, six men were shot dead in broad daylight during the enforcement of […]
Continue ReadingThis was a message a lady recently sent to me. “I was about seven years old the last time I saw my mother, until later in my teenage years. My mother abandoned her last suckling baby with my father’s mother and ran to the city with her friends. Some years later, we started hearing that […]
Continue ReadingThe spectre of suffering from an itchy nipple is one of the most uncomfortable things somebody could experience. This problem is by no means restricted to females alone, as males can also experience this unpleasant condition. While it can be bothersome, it is a very common symptom. The cause is often benign and related to simple […]
Continue ReadingIf I am ‘accused’ of being pregnant with twins, shouldn’t the onus be on me to confirm or deny the unusual news? Why would Dr Lasisi Olagunju or Bamidele Johnson decide to climb the roof to shout themselves hoarse that Funke is not pregnant and indeed (for good measure), she is a virgin? So, the […]
Continue Reading“Even a corpse put in a coffin will defeat Tinubu in 2027.” ADC chieftain and northern politician, Buba Galadima, gave that promise at the ADC convention last Tuesday. He was wrong. The corpse, the coffin and the carpenter will be buried by Hurricane Tinubu in the election of next year, unless… Unless what? Unless they […]
Continue ReadingWhen in 2019 I chose the rather long subtitle for my book, Why Not; few saw what I was seeing. Citizenship, State Capture, Creeping Fascism and the Criminal Hijack of Politics in Nigeria; is truly long for a book subtitle. But I wanted to leave no doubt about what was crystallizing before my stunned gaze. […]
Continue ReadingThere you have it. In an interview with ARISE TV on Wednesday, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar confirmed the worst-kept secret in politics: that he is going to join the 2027 presidential race. The former vice-president, the driving force behind adopting the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the platform to rally the opposition against the All Progressives […]
Continue ReadingIt is now 46 days since the war between US/Israel and Iran began in the Middle East on February 28, throwing the entire world into a fit, in what gradually matured into a war of civilizations, a gory theatre of bloodshed, death and destruction, a mesh of cultural difference, regional tension and melodramatic assault on […]
Continue ReadingWar commanders die cheap deaths; farmers are murdered on their farms, traders in their shops, landlords vanish on their lands, tenants in their rented rooms; students abducted from their studies. What more must happen before we become what Italians would call “Paese dei Morti” (Country of the Dead); “Paese senza memoria” (country without memory)? When […]
Continue ReadingThe president and his party are obviously in a frenzy. The next election in 2027 seems like a last battle for them. The passcode in the country today which gives them away is ‘support Tinubu.’ It’s as if the president is an invalid on crutches needing support. No official speech ends without a word for […]
Continue ReadingFor weeks now, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has been embroiled in a leadership crisis that, on the surface, appears to be a routine internal dispute. With a (former) Deputy National Chairman, Nafiu Bala Gombe as agent provocateur, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has unwittingly entered the fray in a manner that has put […]
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