Now that we have arrived Rwanda
Just before genocide broke out in Rwanda in 1994, a broadcaster on the Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) had said: "Someone must ... make them disappear for good ... to wipe them...
Bola Tinubu, oun t’o lóó dà lo dà yìí o
The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where, in 1927, the then President Charles D.B. King scored 234,000 votes out of a...
MY BOLA TINUBU ODYSSEY
Since Wednesday, March 1, 2023, as Persians, Carthaginians and Romans did in penal sanction, I have been literally hung up for crucifixion. It began the moment Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof Mahmood...
Re: Who Wins Between Akpabio And Enoidem
My attention has been drawn to an overtly sponsored article written by one Nsikak Ekanem, a freelance journalist with a highly respected news outfit; The Independent Newspaper, which only about a year ago, recognised...
Yelisa Wins BBTitans Head Of House Task
Yemi Cregx and Nelisa, housemates with the pair name, Yelisa, have won Big Brother Titans Head of House task. The two have by the win emerged heads of house for the ‘Ziyakhala Wahala’ edition of the...
APC’s Dilemma On Election Eve
Too many things have since shown that in truth, there is not much difference between our ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its biggest rival, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Both parties...
The poetics of Bola Tinubu’s palm kernel
Listen to Senator Bola Tinubu Wednesday last week in Abeokuta: “If you want to eat palm kernel, put a stone on the ground; put a palm nut on it, take another stone and smash...
Nigerian legislators: Drop your incessant threats
The several interventions of the Nigerian military in the governance of the country affected one arm-the legislature more than the other two-the executive and the judiciary. This is because at each intervention, it was...
Anini, Prince of Thieves
General Ibrahim Babangida's Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) had just finished its weekly meeting. What ministers do with the present occupant of Aso Rock, Abuja –praise and worship – was the lot of IBB...
Nigeria: Electoral offences without end
It is not difficult to know that the reason Nigeria has had unending electoral offences, is because the nation’s political leaders gain from the trend. Electoral offences are not happening only because we are...
Yoruba elders and Ulli Beier’s dog
badan of 1914 witnessed the founding of a club with a very unique name: Egbé Àgbà ò Tán (Society of Elders-Have-Not-Gone-Extinct). Why did they have to choose that name? The old in Ibadan of...
The god of Nyesom Wike
Last week, Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and his entourage were in Ahoada area of the State, on a mission to flag-off a road construction. Then a drama was staged. It was skillfully perfumed...
Let’s Not Ignore Bauchi Governor’s Cry
The determination of President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure a free and fair election this year is salutary especially against the backdrop of reports that he gave the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC all it...
