Demoncrazy! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Punch The move by the Lagos State Government to ban okada and tricycles from fifteen local governments in the state could have been better if government had really put the interests of the various stakeholders in mind. In the first instance, the government, through its commissioner for information and strategy allegedly insisted that…

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On The Substance? – Adewale Sobowale

Mr Raji Fashola recently said the Buhari administration has done more than the United States in the provision of infrastructure. As the ill performing minister of works and housing, he should know. All the roads in Nigeria have been tarred. Even the roads to farms and village roads. All houses have electric power supply. Those…

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1960! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: BBC How many Nigerians have noticed that the further we are from October 1, 1960, the more poverty-stricken our society is? And, I’m talking of poverty in all ramifications! Let’s look at Indonesia and Japan, for instance. In what stage of development were they at Nigeria’s independence? Where are they now? I remember…

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Too Bad! – Adewale Sobowale

I never knew things have gone this bad in Nigeria. They have even gone baddest, if you’ll excuse my ibon, as we used to call grammatical errors in those good old days. I learn they are called AK47 these days! It is stale news that the Oga in this country, Mr Muhammad Buhari,is abroad for…

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Horse riders! – Adewale Sobowale

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and his Inter Reformers Band released a bumper album in 1973 titled, Ketekete, The horse, the man and his son. The summary of the title song is that, there’s nothing one can do to satisfy fellow men. That Dr Olusegun Obasanjo has written a letter to Mr Muhammad Buhari is no…

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