By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “I DON tire for this country o! In fact, I am really, really fed up! Was it not Emilokan that I sighted at the burial ceremony of Nasir el-Rufai’s mother or was I seeing double?” “O-ti o! You were seeing triple! Mr. President was there life and direct! He landed there gidigba […]
By Olukorede Yishau I STILL remember the fear of that season as though it happened yesterday. It was the most terrifying period our family had ever faced. It happened nearly twenty-five years ago, towards the fading days of 2001. My brother and friend, the one that remains Sadoh to me, but many others call Pastor […]
By Owei Lakemfa A DIPLOMAT from the Group of Seven, G7, countries in March 2026, invited me to dinner in Abuja. The first thing he asked was how I was coping with water supply. The diplomatic mission, like some others, is suffering disruption of water supply. I explained that since I relocated to Abuja from […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE KARL MARX, the man who taught the world the Marxist ideology and after whom it was named, described religion as the opium (or opiate) of the people. His exact words, in his 1844 work titled “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”, goes thus: “Religion is the sigh of […]
By Owei Lakemfa MOROCCANS. I love Moroccans. They are a fine people with a very rich history and culture. But in the last six decades their country has been in the news, often for the wrong reasons. They are now known for being intolerant, divisive, quarrelsome, arrogant, but subservient and unscrupulous. When it was to […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “IT’S LOOKING like many horses will run in the 2027 presidential race” “And who are the horses?” “The incumbent is one of them…” “God willing!” “What do you mean?” “Don’t put anything beyond God. That is why economists say ceteris paribus” “And what have economists got to do with the politics of […]...
By Olukorede Yishau IN THE wee hours of March 26, 2024, when much of the world slept and the waters of Baltimore’s harbour moved with its usual calm, a Singapore-flagged cargo vessel, MV Dali, lost power and struck a pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Within seconds, steel that had stood since 1977 gave […]
By Owei Lakemfa WASHINGTON’s THREE blind mice. Donald Trump, their President. Marco Rubio his Secretary of State and Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defence, now transformed into Secretary of War. A trinity of the greedy, the liar and the lawless, nesting in territorial and colonial delusions. In carrying out mass destruction and massacres as...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “DO YOU think President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will revisit his ambassadorial-nominee list, seeing the avalanche of criticisms that have trailed some of the names on the list? Some of them have even been rejected by the countries they were posted to!” “Haba! People! Why can’t we for once see something positive in […]...
By Bola BOLAWOLE THIS APPEARS to be a season of anomy. Controversies, conflicts, and chaos wallop the atmosphere. People are still discussing and arguing over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to London. Who were the gainers? And who were the losers? The economics of the visit, as some critics have argued, suggests that the […]...
