I was ruminating on the death of democracy which the recently concluded elections in Nigeria represent when the sad news on Sunday came to me from Bola Akanbi that my friend and brother, Professor Pius Adesanmi, was among the dead passengers on Ethiopian Air that crashed six minutes after take-off. The death of Pius is […]
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VOICE OF COURAGE
Day Abacha came alive in Lagos
As the remains of Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti laid in state at his Imaria residence that fateful evening in 2006, Mr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) beckoned to me and said: “Beko is cold in there. I recall all our struggles burning tires all over Lagos to have democracy. Now look at what those we handed the fruits […]
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Nigeria as is jinxed!
MY friend and brother, Olusegun Adeniyi, made me roll on the floor years ago when he wrote this joke about God wanting to destroy the world again and mistakenly gave the contract to build an ark to a Nigerian Noah. “And the Lord spoke to Noah and said: “I will give you six months to […]
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Dear Prof Sagay
It is with the heaviness of heart that I write this in the middle of the night as I reflect on your total transformation to the “Next Level” of genuflecting sycophancy, which has been the pathetic story of ex-radicals that the Nigerian establishment draws now and then. It has always been a tragic outing for […]
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Amina Zakari and the red flag at INEC
Mrs Amina Zakari, the controversial National Commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), whose mane raises the blood pressure of opposition politicians in Nigeria today is an employer’s delight. But like the bat whose only affliction is that the arms are longer than the legs, her major drawback is that she does more than […]
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4+4 Miyetti Allah Presidency?
THERE is a saying in my corner of Nigeria that accidental fire does not burn somebody twice. But I think that proverb does not capture the fact that not all human beings are wise and, therefore, there are scumbags who can suffer burn over again from the sane source. That is why I prefer another […]
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2023 and Osinbajo’s song of …
A week after he stuttered at the vice-presidential debate in Abuja, as result of functioning in Lai’s lane, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was at the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo last weekend to shred whatever vestige of credibility he has left for crass political opportunism. The otherwise cerebral professor did not have to stammer this […]
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Real change representatives and parliamentary option
WITHOUT the 71 lawmakers who tabled a motion for Nigeria to return to the parliamentary option last week, our four years of “change” would have passed without any proposal to change anything from all the things that have brought us to where we are today as a country . I saw one pitiable professor on […]
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