The Goggled One! – Adewale Sobowale

Let’s be thanking God for little mercies. Let’s thank Him for all things. I’m rereading Olusegun Adeniyi’s ‘The Last 100 Days of Abacha’. All the killings and attempted killings. The so- called phantom coup. The adoption by all the ‘five fingers of the same hand’, as late Bola Ige described the political parties of that…

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Too Close! – Adewale Sobowale

I had decided not to post anything about COVID 19 again. Especially, given Nigeria’s untidy management of the scourge. However, when a handshake moves to the elbow, it becomes a wrestle. The death of an old school buddy has made me shatter my shell. He attended the reputable Baptist Academy, Obanikoro in Lagos, where he…

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Killing Fields! – Adewale Sobowale

A number of sites exist in Cambodia where more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge during its rule of the country between 1975 and 1979. They are appropriately named the Cambodian Killing Fields. An estimated figure of between 500, 000 thousand and one million Rwandans were eliminated within 100…

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