June 12! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: PM News Today is another June 12. Out of the June 12s I’ve managed to witness on mother earth, that of 1993 remains the most unique. That was when a great crime was committed in my fatherland. ‘Before our very eyes’, – borrowing the title of a book- the presidential election which Chief…
On Apologies! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Daily Trust It’s no longer a secret that the president of Nigeria, Mr Muhammad Buhari apologised to Nigerians and particularly the family of late Chief MKO Abiola for stealing the presidency, for detaining people unjustly and for murdering people. When I heard the news, my mind flashed back to over forty years ago….
Not Yet Uhuru! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Punch Nigerians love holidays. If there’s something, at least out of nothing the Nigerian government succeeds in, it’s massaging the bruised ego of Nigerians by supplying them with enough holidays to last till eternity. Or how else can we describe having June 12 as a democracy day in a country(?) with so…
Crazy Demon! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Vanguard There must definitely be two Obasekis in the APC gubernatorial race of Edo State in Nigeria. If not, I don’t see why the governor of the state could be disqualified due to educational qualifications. I say this with every sense of responsibility. Was it not with the same qualifications he rode into…
Buhari’s Train! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Cable So Buhari could go and commission a railway service in Lagos? He’s probably too old to remember he cancelled the metro-line project embarked upon by Alhaji Lateef Jakande when he toppled the Shagari government in 1984.The project handlers were said to have gone to court and it was alleged that the…
