By Bolanle BOLAWOLE UNDOUBTEDLY, THE United States’ President Donald Trump does not appear to be a man of peace. He does not even care to be seen as such. Trump is cast in the mould of someone who loves a fight and is always in the mood to engage in one. Where there is no […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE NIGERIA IS touted as the second most religious country in the world; after the Taliban’s Afghanistan. Similarly, it is said to be the second most impoverished nation; again, after the same Afghanistan! Be they Christian or Muslim, religious Nigerians wear their religion like a badge. Outwardly they are pious; but inwardly ...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “Corruption thrives where there is silence”– Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN. COMPARE THE above quote from Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, the youthful Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), with the one often attributed to the 18th-century Irish philosopher, Edmund Burke, which s...
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 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 Bolanle BOLAWOLE TODAY, I delight to ask questions, which I expect those closer than me to the affected scenes of activity to answer. The rumblings in Ondo state, though multi-faceted, are in two broad categories – security of life and property and cloak-and-dagger struggle for power and fleeting relevance by politicians and power blo...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ONE OF THE (once-upon-a-time) immovable pillars of our justice system is that a man is presumed innocent until otherwise proven. The man […]
