An MKO Obelisk – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Vanguard The greatest honour we can give the late Chief MKO Abiola is to keep Nigeria one. We should respect each other. We shouldn’t have degrading mindsets about whichever ethnic group or tribe. We should know that we have fantastic Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba just like we have terrible ones of each stock….

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Little Mercies! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times We need to thank God for little mercies. Many people had been alarmed that Children’s Day and Democracy Day would have been an avenue for Nigeria’s chief executives and their first ladies to waste whooping sums of money on needless celebrations. But, thanks to COVID 19, the monies have been saved…

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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…

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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….

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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…

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