In 1964, the Nigerian Tribune’s editorial comment, entitled Where do we go from here?, a scurrilous attack on the Premier, Ladoke Akintola’s government of the Western Region, published on April 16 of that year, landed its editor, Ilobu, now Osun State-born Ayo Ojewumi, alias Pen Atalanta, in a hot soup of sedition charges. The comment contained one of the newspaper’s most mordant strictures ever. It labeled the Akintola government’s actions “awful, stinking, disgraceful and ugly,” and accused it of “reckless squandermania and abuse of office.” Last Friday, while fielding questions from the Arise TV, self-styled military president, Ibrahim Babangida, attempted…

Several years ago, armed robbers visited the church premises of a famous Nigerian bishop and attacked some banks there. The bishop was greatly offended, and he cursed them. He directed his church members to pray that the wrath of God would be visited on the criminals. He also cursed kidnappers operating in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He asked God to kill them all. He said: “We place a curse on their roots wherever they are, and we pray that thunders of heaven will strike, and the judgment of God will come upon them.” Later, the bishop also descended…