Up NECO! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Leadership Sometime in August, the National Examinations Council (NECO) invited examiners to mark the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination theory papers. The examinations were held in May/June. The examiners went to the marking centres from far and near. Most of them were not after monetary gains but they wanted to be more abreast…

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ET TU, BRUTE! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: LinkedIn This post’s inspiration is from an earlier one by the wordsmith, Odolaye Aremu. One other thing about the man is his graciousness in owning a free range asylum. I’m proud to belong to this asylum of thinking people! On March 15, 44 BCE, the popular emperor Julius Caesar was attacked by a…

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Trudeau survives another confidence vote!

Photo credit: Daily Guardian Canadian Prime Minister has survived another parliamentary confidence vote, the second in less than a week.  Reuters reports that the opposition parties have vowed to keep his Liberal government alive. In the House of Commons, Lawmakers voted 207-121 to defeat the official opposition Conservative Party’s bid to topple Trudeau. After almost nine years in…

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Nigeria Is 55 – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Guardian Let’s roll out the drums and celebrate.Oh yes, why shouldn’t we? Our naira is now greater than the dollar.Our oil is now worth two hundred dollars per barrel.We now grow our own food.We export rice to China.Palm produce to Malaysia.Every farm has irrigation.Every able bodied man is employed.The sick and old…

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Beekololari! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times In the light of the propagandist of ex president Jonathan, one Reno Omokare’s long criticism of Omoyele Sowore, I just can’t help remembering the late Dr Beekololari Ransome Kuti. Like most adults know, he was a child of two progressive parents. His father was the popular Principal of Abeokuta Grammar School…

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