Did We? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: BBC I’m most concerned about how Nigerians lost the second republic to General Buhari! While his becoming a ‘democratically imposed’ president has shown he never had any good plan for Nigeria, it wouldn’t be fair to him to put all the blames on Buhari. In the first instance, we were in a learning…

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FELA by Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: The Leadership When he changed his name from what he perceived to be a slave name, Ransome, to Anikulapo, we thought he did not know what he was talking about, but then events proved him right. The truth is that he has simply refused to die! When we consider the immense popularity AfroBeats…

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Welcoming Mr Buhari – Adewale Sobowale

I understand Mr Buhari should resume work on the sixth of February. That’s great, isn’t it? He is a famous man! If he wasn’t all the concern about his health wouldn’t have arisen. I was in a taxi yesterday. Lo and behold, a funeral motorcade approached us from the opposite direction. The person sitting next…

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That’s Him! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times It’s good to be good! Or should I say it’s good to have made a great impact? I can remember when Awo, as Chief Obafemi Awolowo was fondly called by friends and foes alike, was involved in charges of treason and subsequently imprisoned. I was then a skinny underpant wearing tot….

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Alaborun! Underwear!! – Adewale Sobowale

Gradually and rapidly, what should not qualify as even the exception is becoming the case in Nigeria. I’m referring to the insecurity that’s now an egbejoda, uniform, in Nigeria. The hungry vultures are rapidly becoming unfamished. If it’s not Boko Haram, it’s the modern herdsmen. Modern because in the not so far away days of…

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Why, Oh Why!!! – Adewale Sobowale

That Ogun State will become forty years tomorrow is now stale news. However, what I find unbecoming is the manner the State Government declared a public holiday. They said it was declared yesterday night. The government might have forgotten that most people do not enjoy constant power supply in Nigeria. Personally, I do not even…

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