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The Nigerian Bar Association’s dis-inviting of Nasir El-Rufai from debasing its platform at its last conference due to the pressure of open bar initiative that a man who has outright disregard for the rule of law is not a good teacher for lawyers on the subject is a good example of constructing amoral finishing post […]
Continue ReadingDr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, Nigerian activist and widow of the late spokesperson of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, has given birth to a set of twins. The twins, a boy and a girl, were delivered at a United States of America hospital on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. Yinka Odumakin died from Covid-19 related complications at the Lagos […]
Continue Reading“Yinka could not have died now. That was not the plan. Yinka had only achieved 1% of what he planned to do. This was not our understanding…” That was the outpouring of a completely unbelieving and shattered Joe, on receiving the news that her husband of over two decades was no more. That Joe and Yinka were […]
Continue ReadingThe late Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, was buried at his Moro home town in Osun State on Saturday amid tears by family members and friends and outpouring of tributes by associates. Odumakin’s remains were committed to mother earth at his residence on Ewuru Street after a funeral service coordinated by the founder of Sword of […]
Continue ReadingA long time spokesman for the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, has died of COVID-19. It was learnt that, Odumakin died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital isolation centre. Mrs. Joe Okei-Odumakin, his wife and colleague in the struggle to see a better Nigeria, has confirmed his death. It has been gathered […]
Continue Reading“What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections. So they recruited the youth and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force. “After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns; the […]
Continue ReadingIn the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends – Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King uttered the above statement at the peak of frustrations with many blacks not speaking up against segregation against blacks in racial America. You can guess what your enemies would say […]
Continue ReadingThis is a 2019 piece which is repeated in the light of the events of the last one week – another mass kidnapping, fuel price hike and its denials; NSA’s bombshell and the attempt to help him deny what he said. It was by chance that I stumbled on Gambia TV a few days back […]
Continue ReadingThis must be a distressful season for Professor Wole Soyinka as Nigeria journeys through its peculiar season of Kongi and the madmen. The Prof has spent almost a lifetime teaching in the classroom as well as national and international fora to know well enough that some people are uneducable. I am still deciphering the “leap […]
Continue ReadingThe late Pa Abraham Adesanya once told us how he boldly looked at Chief Obafemi Awolowo at an Action Group caucus and said, “it seems some of our ministers are seeing life more abundant as a motto for their children alone with the type of cars they are riding.” Awo was silent for a minute […]
Continue ReadingIt’s only those who are too daft to read societies at anomic drift that would not be able to decode that Nigeria as presently constituted is nearing its last days the way Yugoslavia, USSR and other once-upon-a-time countries exhausted their possibilities and became history. If Nigeria fails to restructure as has been strongly canvassed and […]
Continue ReadingIt was the very day protesters violated Capitol Hill in America over allegation of rigged polls that the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) in Nigeria pronounced death sentence over the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Bishop Hassan Kukah, who has a double jeopardy of being a prominent indigene of Southern Kaduna, a community that has been at […]
Continue ReadingDear Bishop, When I met you in Calabar three years ago at Southern Senators Retreat, you were still as fresh as the very Father Kukah I met in Lagos in the dangerous days of Sani Abacha when fear reigned over the land. Those were the years the Catholic church whose secretariat you headed led us […]
Continue ReadingChief Ayo Adebanjo was practically in tears he called me on Thursday to ask if I came across a political address given by Pastor Tunde Bakare on Sunday. I could not lie to a 92- year old man and I admitted I saw it. He then asked why I didn’t let him have it as […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigeria Broadcast Commission is currently tongue – tied over a letter written by the Sharia Board in Kano (Hisbah) to Cool FM Radio to stop using the term “Black Friday” in Kano stare. In the rest of Nigeria, only the NBC has the right to regulate the activities of broadcast organisations until the dual […]
Continue ReadingMay God bless the soul of the late sir Olaniwun Ajayi, a very deep and learned man. Hardly ever sat with him without something to take away. When he had just 48 hours more to live, he phoned he wanted to see me. I was in Ibadan that day and the urge was to look […]
Continue ReadingI was talking of how comprehensive incompetence of some of our compatriots who lack ability to lead is doing much damage to this country and may sentence it to death if we don’t reset quickly. The wonder in the piece was the likely dangers we face with those who went to hold a sectional meeting […]
Continue ReadingGbese (debt) is not a thing to be proud of in my neck of the wood. An onigbese (debtor) does not command much respect in any gathering. In fact, he goes through the inner way if he sees his creditor afar. But my country is so shameless when it comes to owing money that it […]
Continue ReadingNon-speakers of Yoruba language should pardon me for this week’s headline. It simply means remember the son of whom you are but it is sweeter in my native tongue. The ‘Chief Commander’, Ebenezer Obey has one of his evergreens in that line in which he admonishes proper-borns not to ever forget their roots no matter […]
Continue ReadingDear Chief Tinubu, The backpage of your The Nation of Tuesday 12 March where one of your Rottweilers under the FORGED name “Segun Ibirogba” wrote “Odumakin’s anxiety over vanishing feeding-bottles” has un-paused the button on this serial. I have always wondered why these intellectual almajiris around you always attack me under fake names. It is […]
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