We are so pis-ed off with the national assembly that we want to run them out of town. Particularly the members of the senate! Yes, we are right. In the first instance, we did not vote them in. OK, we did not know this is how they will behave. They have played a fast one…
‘Confusion Break Bone’ is an album recorded by the irrepressible and irresistible Abami Eda, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. It was released in 1975. I don’t think of anything else to describe feelings in the camp of Mr Ademola Adeleke apart from a state of confusion. The electoral body, INEC had declared him to be a loser in…
With the continued spread of COVID 19, it’s now more than obvious that human knowledge is a huge joke. We first said it was due to the Chinese eating raw those things which we regard as despicable. But did the commonest of senses not prevail on us that any repercussion could only have affected the…
Let’s face facts, are we serious? My question stems from the fact that our president has gone for medical tourism in the UK. How much will his trip cost the commonwealth? Given the fact that when the president of a ‘developing’ (read as ‘underdeveloped’) nation travels, he goes with all the human and material paraphernalia…
Nigerian politicians keep on springing surprises. They keep on being sources of marvel to the outside world. To Nigerians, whether they are inside or outside the country’s shores, they are beyond being shocked by the politicians. They all know that, isaluwala ologbo, ati keran je ni. That is, the performance of ablution by a cat…
Not many people might know he was approached to be President to assuage what they saw as the injustice done to the south west due to the regretful annulment of June 12. But he was honest enough to know he couldn’t serve as a good party man. While he and others were at the fortress,…
Saying Nigerian politics is interesting is an understatement of the year. Yes, daddy!Thank you, daddy!! Those are the new mantras! I guess they’ll solve the multifaceted problems confronting the nation. In a country where our well-known religious fervency has reached the level of indoctrination, is it any surprise that a presidential candidate, rather than seeking…
