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Monday, 01 February 2021 06:11

Sunday Igboho’s feat and fall of the Yoruba elite - Abayomi Ogunye

I begin this article with one of the most profound statements I have ever heard or read. The content of it, though usually ignored, is real and unputdownable. The statement is credited to American combat veteran of the Marine Corps and writer, G. Michael Hopf, who, in Those Who Remain said that “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." Hopf himself is a militant individual who once served as a bodyguard to the Saudi royal family. He has seen it all and he understands the dynamics…

Monday, 01 February 2021 05:59

How new are the new Service Chiefs? - Bola Bolawole

Finally, the president, retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, has changed his Service Chiefs. Giving the ex-Service Chiefs soft landing, they were said to have resigned. You can say that to the Marines! All four chose to resign the same day! Public officers hardly resign here; they stay put, well beyond their welcome. Hardly anyone leaves here when the ovation is loudest. The Nelson Mandela spirit does not reside in Nigeria’s public officers and leaders. Here, they stay put in office until they are disgraced out of it. If the ex-Service Chiefs were to behave honourably, they would have left a long…

Monday, 01 February 2021 05:58

Kolawole Odetola’s bitter truth - Femi Fani-Kayode

Kolawole Odetola, who I do not know and I have never met, wrote the following contributuon and every Yoruba man and woman ought to read it. This was not written by flesh but by the Holy Spirit and it is what I have been saying for the last few years. He who has ears let him hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. I commend the author for his courage and I urge him to continue to sound the alarm until it is heard in every nook and cranny of the South West. The Yoruba elites will hate…

Monday, 01 February 2021 05:57

The Makinde N2bn cars bonanza - Olarinre Salako

The January 31st 2021 report by SaharaReporters where Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde was said to have purchased cars worth Two Billion Naira to various PDP politicians and political functionaries should attract the attention of patriotic sons and daughters of Oyo State, Nigeria. This writer made some inquiries about the report and confirmed that indeed, it was largely true. In that report, Makinde bought a 2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV worth Sixty-five (65) million Naira for Late Lamidi Adedibu’s widow – Abosede Adedibu. Recall that the late Adedibu was the strong man of Ibadan politics, well known for political…

Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:04

Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar the bridge builder - Tola Adeniyi

I can bet my bottom dollar that the Sultan, urbane Officer and Gentleman educated and civilized is not happy with the way things are going on with the way a few criminal elements of Fulani stock are tarnishing the image of the entire Fulani nation and being unabashedly pampered by the Abuja government. The Sultan travels freely to all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria meeting with his royal counterparts everywhere without airs or chips on his shoulders. He is admired and respected wherever he goes and he, in turn, is respectful and self respecting. If every Fulani leader were…

Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:03

Tribute: At 70, the sun set for GTN Ajakpo - Folu Olamiti

As I punch the key-board to write this, it still feels like a dream. A very bad dream. As I struggle to stitch the words, I fight back tears. It is as if a big screen unfolds before me and his images seem to be reeling right before my very eyes. Am I dreaming? I could hear myself whispering. But even in my great sadness and sorrow over the unimaginable loss, I manage a wry smile. That is when I realise how difficult it is to write a tribute of someone you see or talk with so often, someone whose…

Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:02

Aliko Dangote’s costly libido mess - Festus Adedayo

How can a man fight very difficult life battles, vanquish them all, be a household name in the world as a result of his handsome laurels in business and then, all of a sudden, get picked up effortlessly on the bed by women as they do snails in farm furrows? This is the question on the lips of the world as Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, confronts his deconstruction by some self-confessed mistresses Autumn Spikes and Bea Lewis. This Dangote costly mess on cozy beds has spiked globally, diverting riveting attention to the Kano-born business dinosaur. Lewis claimed she had…

Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:00

Sunday Igboho: The real Asiwaju of the Yorubas - Bolaji Akinyemi

Arguably, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the most creative Nigeria politician living today. A man of no mean political entrepreneurship and acumen whose profit in political investment doesn’t come to him in “Ghana must go” bags, but driven in bullion vans. This business cum professional politician has deliberately built the control system in such a way that nothing happens without his knowledge. Particularly in the South West, hirelings he has everywhere in place of Shepherd’s. Dents to his image are so easily panel beaten because of this control system. The media is awash with his men and women, gatekeepers who filter…

Sunday, 31 January 2021 05:59

Sergeant Hannibal Mukoro turns the table against Baba Lekki - Tatalo Alamu

To the Amororo police station where Baba Lekki was locked in an epic legal duel to secure an order of mandamus for the release of Okon after being detained for contempt of court in a case of bigamy. The whole place was like an open camp of miscreants with hardened ex-convicts, pre-convicts and post-convicts all smoking hemp and lambasting the authorities. Baba Lekki walked in with his usual jaunty confidence. But as he brought out the rumpled legal instrument from a left pocket bristling with all kinds of fireworks including a primitive lighter known in ancient local parlance as monrasana,…

Friday, 29 January 2021 05:20

Buhari, sleeping at the wheels is not an option - Azu Ishiekwene

If you were on a holiday to Nigeria from Mars last week, you would almost certainly cut short your stay to avoid what looked like a coming Armageddon. Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, one of the six South-western states, had issued an ultimatum to herders, mostly of the Fulani tribe, to vacate the state’s forest reserves within one week. The folks are not rangers and have no business in forest reserves, much less turning them into grazing fields. But that’s Greek. In Nigeria, where the law can often be a respecter of connections or identity, you’ll be a fool not…

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Friday, 29 January 2021 05:19

Girls beware, Yahoo guys are desperate - Michael West

Warn your girls! Wicked and desperate guys on the prowl for money rituals are on the increase. Warn your girls! How we got to this level of moral and spiritual decadence in which teenagers are now desperate to become overnight multimillionaires without any legitimate source of income is bewildering. I can't understand why some parents rather than scold, expose and whip their children to the path of sanity, decency and morality have chosen to either look the other way or even facilitate the evil process for their ill-groomed children. I got piqued when I read in the media about mothers…

Thursday, 28 January 2021 05:03

The First Amendment is no excuse for letting social media companies do whatever they want

Private corporations have far too much power over the flow of ideas and information in today’s society. There is a rich historical irony to the fact that today, conservatives are the ones who argue most forcefully that the decisions by private companies to “deplatform” certain speakers threaten what President Donald Trump described in 2020 as the “bedrock” American right to freedom of speech. Until very recently, this was an argument made almost exclusively by those on the left. The decision by Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other social-media outlets to ban Trump from their platforms after the January 6…

Thursday, 28 January 2021 04:55

Igangan, Igboho and the burden of history - Bola Bolawole

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, which occurred on 28 June, 1914 in the little-known village of Sarajevo (located in today’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, formerly a part of the Republic of Yugoslavia), not only signalled the beginning of the First World War (1914 – 1918), it also catapulted Sarajevo to the world stage. Prior to that date, many disputes had taken place that could have led to war but which did not; an otherwise innocuous event was what ignited the first global war…

Wednesday, 27 January 2021 05:13

China’s debt grip on Africa - Paola Subacchi

The pandemic is confronting highly indebted poor countries with a fateful dilemma. As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, lamented last April, leaders have been forced to choose whether to “continue to pay toward debt or redirect resources to save lives and livelihoods.” And when they choose the latter, it is often China – Africa’s biggest bilateral lender – to which they have to answer. According to Ahmed, a moratorium on debt payments was essential to enable Ethiopia to respond to Covid-19. Such a moratorium would save Ethiopia – one of the world’s poorest countries –…

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