Hmm…! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: BBC It’s no longer a secret that the late Timothy Adegoke, a master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State is dead. He died at the Hilton Hotel and Resort in Ife where he had lodged after his arrival from Abuja. My sincere condolences to the family and friends of…

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28 Days… – Adewale Sobowale

Lekki Toll gate, Lagos Mmm… Nigeria is just cool. I mean for crime, misgovernance, and every other type of problem that won’t make a nation prosper. Ok, 28 days after some idiotic soldiers went to attack some defenseless protesters in Lekki, everyone has been ‘calm’. The national assembly, as long as their remunerations are not…

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Iyaz Adua! – Adewale Sobowale

There’re some friends in whose presence you don’t need enemies. Such is the guy I’m profiling today. I got to know him at Abe’gi, an expansive spot in Abeokuta where we keep up with current affairs. A newspaper distributor is at hand and for those of us who I’ll describe as staff members, we don’t…

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Bubu Oyoyo! – Adewale Sobowale

I learnt Mr Buhari went back to Nigeria yesterday. Incidentally, yesterday happened to have been the day of gubernatorial elections in the two Nigerian states of Kogi and Bayelsa. I wouldn’t bother with who or who didn’t win the elections. I bet the electoral body wouldn’t have finished with the business of vote counting anyway….

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