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“How are you doing?” “I am good” “I am now convinced beyond any iota of doubt that this your Republican friend called Donald Trump has something wrong with him.” “There is nothing wrong with him. Be careful what you say, otherwise we will ban you from ever entering the United States from generation to generation, […]
Continue Reading“I hope your daughter is safe” “We thank God. We are all fine. But which of my daughters do you have in mind?” “The one in California. When I read about the wildfires that destroyed over six areas in Southern California, it was you and your daughter that came to my mind. I called you […]
Continue ReadingIt is a new day and a new beginning in Ghana today, January 7, as the country today celebrates the inauguration of President John Dramani Mahama on his second return to the country’s helm of affairs. Mahama was President of Ghana, 2012-2016. He lost the 2016 election to President Nana Addo Akuffo Addo. He lost […]
Continue ReadingThe year is almost over. The year 2024 is ending. In different parts of the world the countdown has begun, with elaborate fireworks heralding the beginning of a New Year 2025. The year 2024 was eventful. And we could all mostly look back and wonder how it passed so quickly. It was a year of […]
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 ReadingIn 1992, Leon Mugesera, a senior politician in the then Rwanda ruling party, gathered a crowd of supporters at a rally held in the town of Kabaya. At the rally, Mugesera labeled the minority Tutsi as “cockroaches,” who must be eliminated. He then asked this East African ethnic group to go back to its place […]
Continue Reading“I hear that the National Assembly has approved the external borrowing of a $2.2 billion for the Tinubu administration to address the fiscal deficit in the 2024 budget.” “Bros, I tire. I just tire. What on earth do they do with all these borrowings?” “There is actually a $9.17 billion deficit in the 2024 budget, […]
Continue ReadingThe battle of the Ondo state Gubernatorial election 2024 has been won and lost, with Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa emerging as the new Governor-elect: 1. 757 million eligible voters, 85.6% PVC collection, 22,239 security officers deployed to enforce security, low voter turn-out, 17 candidates, slugging it out in 18 Local Government areas, 3, 933 polling units, […]
Continue Reading“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain follies of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron” – […]
Continue ReadingToday, October 22, is the day that has been set aside by the Supreme Court of Nigeria for the hearing and the consolidation of the suit brought before the Court in the matter between 16 states of the Federation and the Attorney General of the Federation to determine the legality or otherwise, to wit the […]
Continue Reading“Bros, na wah for you oh. How person go dey call you, you no go pick call?” “A beg. My head no straight these days.” “Are you okay? You sick?” “I sick. I sick well, well, well.” What is the matter? And your wife could not call family? These women! What is going on?” “I […]
Continue ReadingThere is a fire and ballot revolution in Rivers state and the main victim that I can see for now in the burning fire is Nyesom Wike, former Governor of Rivers State, incumbent Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) who is on record has having boasted garrulously that if anybody, a politician from any […]
Continue ReadingThe return of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from what looked like a long trip abroad must come to many as a relief. When the President travelled on August 29, his destination was announced in very clear terms. He was heading to China to attend the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in his capacity as Nigeria’s […]
Continue Reading“Bros, you dey craze. I watch you dis morning, you just dey yarn, You just dey craze. You just dey troll Una dey drink something for that una programme? Una dey mad?” “What is the matter, uncle?” “Don’t Owain me? How can you go on television and give the faintest impression that Buhari is a […]
Continue Reading“Hello, Bros. Hello. Hello. Hello” “Yes. I can hear you” “Which kin thing be this now? I don dey call you since, you no pick call. Person go dey call you, you no go pick.” “At your level, you should know that if you call somebody once or twice and the phone rings, the best […]
Continue ReadingI was away on vacation for just two weeks only to return to meet fuel queues still on the streets of Nigeria with the fuel stations rationing fuel in Lagos and other parts of the country. It is a big shame, and an embarrassment that the world’s sixth largest producer of crude oil cannot refine […]
Continue Reading“I hear the people of Ogun State have put the people of Nigeria in serious trouble with the Chinese.” “You did not hear anything. The story is out there and it is so loud that even the deaf can hear that there is a Chinese problem in Nigeria right now. And just to correct your […]
Continue ReadingThe #EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria were scheduled to take place between August 1 -10, 2024, tagged “10 Days of Rage”, a seemingly apocalyptic projection of the immediate future of Nigeria constructed in the fashion of The People vs. The State but as it has turned out, it may be correct on August 6, today, to […]
Continue Reading“Ol’Boy.” “Bros. Bro-oo!” “How are you preparing for Thursday?” “What is happening on Thursday?” “What do you mean what is happening on Thursday? The #EndBad Governance protest” “I see. Me, I am not protesting oh. When I wake up on Thursday, if I see that some people are already on the streets, me I go […]
Continue ReadingWhat a difference a debate can make! It just made a big difference in the United States in the lead up to that country’s November 5, 2024 general elections. For months, the White House fended off insinuations that President Biden at 81, had become too old for the job, and that the Democrats should look […]
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