By Bolanle BOLAWOLE LEADERS AT both local and international levels make mistakes that reverberate with dire consequences for themselves, their peoples, and other peoples all over the world. Mistakes that leaders make often lead to wars – be they at local or international level as well. Lives are lost, property is destroyed, and the worl...
By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi OVER THE past two weeks, we have witnessed a number of events at the Nigerian Senate, which have left some of us shell-shocked. It is quite common for arguments and battles of all kinds to break out in the National Assembly. It is not easy for so many representatives of their people […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE AT A point I was in a quandary on how to address Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. What unfolded at the Lagos State House of Assembly presented a dilemma similar to that which confronted journalists after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won free and square by MKO Abiola. Should we […]
By Ehi Braimah Are you still wondering what has been going on in the Lagos State House of Assembly? Never mind; it is the usual power dynamics on full display by our politicians. They have taken positions and fighting for leverage. No one is amused except that, this time, Lagos State – a highly prized […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE ALTHOUGH I love watching football, I am not a football fanatic. Each time I sit before the television, it is almost always going to be to watch one football match or the other. I don’t like watching movies. They seem to me a world of make-believe and illusion. They make me apprehensive […]
By Taiwo Adisa MORE THAN a week ago, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) dropped something on our laps. Somehow, the information escaped the required scrutiny of a majority of Nigerians, who were apparently overtaken by the political drama in Lagos and Osun States, amidst their daily challenges. Appare...
By Abdul Oroh AT THE height of his absolute power, General Ibrahim Babangida made it known both in words and deeds that he was a man who craved a space in the history of Nigeria as a soldier- statesman, the creator of a new socio-economic and political order, albeit, unmerited, except in infamy. When Babangida […]
By Oreva Godwin WELCOME TO Africa, where every childless couple creates the regular African impression that the woman is the sole reason for the problem. She is labeled a man by her in-laws and by the public. No one ever cares to direct the blame for childlessness at the husband. It’s always the woman. A […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE Some broken hearts never mend/Some memories never end/Some tears will never dry/Our pains over June 12 will never die! (Adapted from Don Williams’ “Some Broken Hearts Never Mend”). ON THE day former self-styled military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) celebrated his 70th birthday, I was in Minna, the Niger State cap...
Gani was in pain, but he submitted his WILL to his lawyer, Tayo Oyetibo SAN. He was told the month he would die by his doctors. Gani was a strong man. It is not proper telling someone the day the person will die! Gani Fawehinmi’s Well-Articulated Will (1) I, GANIYU Oyesola Fawehinmi, otherwise […]
