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“An army marches on its stomach.” — Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821; Vanguard Book of Quotations, p. 14, available online Right now several millions of Nigerians’ stomachs are empty; and movement has virtually stopped. Unfortunately, it is not only the scarcity of food and high prices which are slowing us down, scarcity of all the things which […]
Continue ReadingPhilip Shaibu, the Edo state politician who was Deputy Governor in that state until yesterday afternoon, would seem to have failed woefully to learn certain basic lessons of power. He has said that he is a victim of an act of injustice and that he would fight to the very end. He may have been […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has lambasted the Tinubu-led government for consistently attributing Nigeria’s economic challenges to ex-President, Muhammad Buhari. Taking to his X handle in a series of posts on Monday, Dalung argued that if Tinubu’s administration devoted the same resources and effort used during elections and tribunals to tackle […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria’s younger generation should be positively disruptive to get power now. Leadership is very important both in the private sector and military, adding that the younger generation will never get power if they do not get it now, Obasanjo said. The youth should run for elections in […]
Continue ReadingKings don’t die. They depart to ancestral underworld in vaults known to the Yoruba as aja ile. The mountainous confetti of praise heaped in the trail of the departed Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, is bigger than the entire Oyo kingdom because Iku Baba Yeye was larger than life itself. What’s Iku Baba […]
Continue ReadingI have severally made the point on this column that for us to make any meaningful progress in this country, we must, despite the risks, tell truth to both power, and ourselves. One of the weaknesses I have observed in the current administration is that those closest to the president, and are, therefore, in a […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has sacked two of his ministers, the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, announced this on Wednesday. He said the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar has been redeployed to the Ministry of Agriculture while the […]
Continue Reading“My paternal great grandfather (my grandfather’s father), Rev. Emmanuel Adelabi Kayode, was an Anglican priest. He was educated by the Christian missionaries and the Anglican Church and he studied theology at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leonne which was at that time a satellite campus of the United Kingdom’s Universty of Durham. In 1892 […]
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