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For the Algerian journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist, Albert Camus, life is meaningless and absurd. To him, it is inexplicable why we live, struggle all through and die. The meaninglessness of life is explained in his book, The Myth of Sisyphus, where he captures the […]
Continue ReadingThe first day of the year is never a good day to write about death and dying. Rotimi Akeredolu spent the last three or four years hard-headed on the frontline. As planted in his name, Akeredolu, he was a small man who nurtured himself to bigness on life’s battlefield. He was not my friend. Apart […]
Continue ReadingDuring the crisis that followed late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s medical trip to Saudi Arabia in 2009, a number of prominent Nigerians advocated that the proper thing was for him to resign from office. Those who canvassed this ‘principled’ position at the time enjoyed not only media limelight but also public adulation. One was a certain Rotimi Akeredolu, the current Governor […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, reportedly abandoned by his wife and children, is currently bedridden in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Nigeria, and is unable to sign official documents, top sources in the government told Sahara Reporters. Akeredolu is a second-term governor under the All Progressives Congress and his tenure will come to […]
Continue ReadingAs part of the celebrations to mark the 62nd independence anniversary of the country, the Governor of Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Saturday, set free 16 inmates from the National Correctional Centre in Ondo. This was contained in a statement signed by the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, who is also the […]
Continue ReadingIn Lawuyi Ogunniran’s Yoruba play, Ààrẹ-àgò Aríkúyẹrí, we see how a happy polygamous family is ruined by the indiscretion of the family head. Ògúnrìndé Ajé, the Ààrẹ-àgò Balógun of Ibadan, man with three wives, throws a party to worship his ‘ori’; he lines up his wives in a singing and dancing bout; the second wife […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum Rotimi Akeredolu has again weighed in on the widespread insecurity witnsessed across the country. Delivering a keynote address at the opening of the ongoing Attorneys-General of the 36 States, the Ondo state Governor noted that police is overwhelmed. Akeredolu who disclosed that the police blamed non-availabilty of vehicles for their inability to […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Ekiti state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and his Ondo state counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, paid a visit to the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, in London on Wednesday, August 25. Muiz Banire, former national legal adviser of APC also visited him not long ago. Tinubu has been in the UK for […]
Continue ReadingIn the past few weeks we have been treated to how degraded Nigeria has become, we have also witnessed the manifestation of a contrary trend. The latter was the retrieval and reassertion of the spirit of federalism by the Southern Governors Forum. Ordinarily, elected public officials do not deserve a special applause for doing the […]
Continue ReadingIn June 1948, Sir Adeyemo Alakija, President of Egbe Omo Oduduwa, was in Ile Ife with other leaders to inaugurate the Egbe. At that event with the organisation’s founder, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Alakija spoke strongly to the imperative of a ‘big tomorrow’ for the Yoruba race. “This big tomorrow,” he said, “is the future of […]
Continue ReadingArakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu who was last Saturday, re-elected as Governor of Ondo state, has received his certificate of return alongside his Deputy, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Presenting the certificate of return to Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa, Ondo Resident Electoral Commissioner Ambassador Rufus Akeju urged the Governor to continue to provide basic services, basic amenities and infrastructure for the […]
Continue ReadingTo forestall violence and bloodletting, candidates of political parties participating in the coming Ondo State Governorship election have signed a peace accord. During the Peace Accord signing ceremony which held in Akure, Ondo State capital on Tuesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the pact was to ensure a violence-free election. Among those who […]
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