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Purchase of N5bn vehicles deepens Obasa, Meranda quarrel

March 11, 2025March 12, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Controversy has trailed the purchase of N5bn vehicles for 40 lawmakers at the Lagos State House of Assembly, deepening the feud between Speaker Mudashiru Obasa and erstwhile Speaker Mojisola Meranda. It was learnt that Meranda purportedly led the purchase of about 39 vehicles for the lawmakers during the period Obasa was removed as Speaker. However, […]

Obasa, Aláàfin Ṣàngó and the capture of Lagos, By Festus Adedayo

March 3, 2025March 4, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

On Wednesday, February 25, 2025, a very toxic but innocuous advertorial was published in the Punch newspaper. It was authored by a group which called itself De Renaissance Patriots Foundation. Entitled Systematic Marginalization of Lagos State Indigenes, and signed by Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (rtd.) and Yomi Tokosi, the advertorial explains the legislative gangsterism currently going on in Lagos State, […]

Obasa presides over Lagos Assembly plenary, situation remains uncertain

February 27, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Embattled former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, presided over a plenary session on Thursday with only four lawmakers in attendance. The session took place after security operatives allegedly forced open the chamber doors, granting Obasa and his loyalists access. As of 3 pm, the plenary was ongoing, but over […]

El-Rufai, Obasa and other godfather stories, By Lasisi Olagunju

February 10, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

It happened one sunny day in mid-May 2003. I was preparing to go to the office around noon when Tayo, the editor’s secretary, called me. “Mr Olagunju, don’t come to the office, Baba Adedibu is here looking for you. He came with his boys.” There were no two birds bearing ‘hawk’ in the skies of […]

Obasa: Lagos na wa!, By Festus Adedayo

January 26, 2025January 26, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Lagos State and the drama of its embattled lawmaker and ex-Speaker of its parliament, Mudashiru Obasa, appropriately answer to an idiom in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Insatiably curious about the mysteries of Wonderland, Alice had used the word, “Curiouser and curiouser” to express the mysteries of how she shrinks after drinking a potion. When […]

Of wildfires, Los Angeles, Obasa and other human stories, By Reuben Abati

January 14, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

“I hope your daughter is safe” “We thank God. We are all fine. But which of my daughters do you have in mind?” “The one in California. When I read about the wildfires that destroyed over six areas in Southern California, it was you and your daughter that came to my mind. I called you […]