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“Silence is golden when you can’t think of an [intelligent] answer” – Mohammed Ali, 1942-2016. Buhari’s death has exposed more horrors about the real attitude of those who held the highest posts in his government – which was largely a failure based on lies and hypocrisy. Last week, my column addressed Garba Shehu’s confession that […]
Continue ReadingWhile Muhammadu Buhari and honchos of his eight-year ruinous regime busied themselves with a feverish last-minute plunder of the public treasury, Femi Adesina chose to deploy his waning symbolic resource as Buhari’s media aide to hatch a brassy plunder of a scholarly laurel. In a social media post dishonestly titled “HONOUR FROM ACROSS THE SEAS,” Adesina misled […]
Continue ReadingKings don’t die. They depart to ancestral underworld in vaults known to the Yoruba as aja ile. The mountainous confetti of praise heaped in the trail of the departed Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, is bigger than the entire Oyo kingdom because Iku Baba Yeye was larger than life itself. What’s Iku Baba […]
Continue ReadingThe pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere has tackled the special adviser to President Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, for comparing his boss, President Buhari to former Nigerian leaders, Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe. In his article, Adesina wrote: “Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is an honest man. Whatever he tells you, please take it serious. […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari spoke on Tuesday, warning troublemakers in the country that the picnic was over, and the next day, I saw this comment online from a Buharist, as lovers and admirers of the President are known: “I just finished watching the President on TV reading the riot act to troublemakers, and I couldn’t be […]
Continue ReadingFrom Sunday afternoon till evening, I was harried and harassed with phone calls by some people in the media. Can you please confirm the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari? He came into the country on Thursday, and he hasn’t been seen since then. Information at our disposal says his health has taken a turn […]
Continue ReadingWhat a week it has been for our own dear native land! Just at the beginning of the month, as the country turned 60 as an independent entity, President Muhammadu Buhari had charged us to “begin sincere process of national healing, eliminate old and outworn perceptions that are always put to test in the lie […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president earlier today held a virtual meeting with former Nigerian leaders and the security chiefs over the escalation of violence arising from the #EndSARS protests. President Buhari’s medial aide, Mr. Femi Adesina issued a statement after the meeting. Read the full statement by Mr Adesina below: STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE HOW ENDSARS PROTEST WAS […]
Continue ReadingFemi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari has said, only Muhammadu Buhari can confront former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and “survive it”. Adesina stated this in a piece entitled ‘Buhari Applause for Akinwumi Adesina.’ Obasanjo and Buhari have a few things in common. Obasanjo was Nigeria’s military head of state between […]
Continue ReadingWho are the ‘we?’ Speak for yourself only, some cynics would say on merely seeing the headline of this piece. They would add: “You can talk because you are in government, earning a ‘fat’ salary and enjoying other perks of office, so why won’t you be glad?” Okay. So that there’ll be peace, I agree […]
Continue ReadingBuhari’s Special Assistant on media, Femi Adesina has said, the fact that Nigerians elected a president doesn’t mean they have the right to order the President around. He said this when he appeared on Nigeria Info FM on Tuesday, May 5. In his reaction to a question, Mr Adesina criticised the caller. Femi Adesina said: […]
Continue ReadingFor many years, week after week, Shaka Momodu opens the sewers, and pours vitriol on President Muhammadu Buhari on the back page of THISDAY Newspapers. We ignore him, reasoning that when a mind is diseased, there is hardly much you can do to point such soul to decency. It remains impervious to anything not from […]
Continue ReadingNigerian govt, through Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has mocked the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), over President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Japan, describing the conduct of IPOB members in Tokyo, Japan as “shameful.”. Expecting Buhari’s arrival in Japan on Monday, ahead of the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development […]
Continue ReadingSpecial Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has admitted that the level of insecurity in the country has put the nation in “dire times” He, however, said the government was not overwhelmed by the challenges such as terrorism, banditry, militancy, kidnapping and other crises. The Media and Publicity adviser […]
Continue Reading“Akin Oshuntokun appeared on Channels television today and made the false claim that a bomb blast had gone off earlier in the day, killing about 88 people in Maiduguri… Apparently, enemies of peace and progress had expected a return to the infamous past, thus Oshuntokun appeared on television with his bag of lies. The tripod […]
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