By Tunde Olusunle I’ve just watched a four-minute video clip of Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor, commissioning a humongous haul of 14 road projects in one day in Aba, the major commercial hub in the state. My interest was not in the ceremonial cutting of tapes and ribbons at every turn during the exercise….
Several years ago, I joined a group of my classmates in the secondary school. I was with the group briefly. It was brief because I’m naturally a loner! I value my solitude. While with the group, I showed some of my books to the members. While some of them were showing signs of approval, a…
You have to set forthat the genesis of a new day like dawn,a spirit forming within you till you let it halve you,till you let it have you,all that are fully grown,good feelings you never can tell. Till you let it make you, the theatre for its dramatic performance and everyone, the spectators for this…
Never again will I join in blaming Baba Adan for not taking Nigerians seriously when they say there is hunger in the land. Barely a week ago, Obi Cubana shut Abuja down for his fiftieth birthday. The party was so big that most people didn’t notice that the birthday of the world’s wealthiest black man…
The journalist who asked Mr Buhari what Nigerians should be expecting from his administration is definitely a spoilsport! Haba!! If you look at his antecedent, he’s most likely to be from the opposition. How can anyone ask such a sickening question from a man who’s just recuperating from an undisclosed illness? Is he not a…
Photo credit: Premium Times Oh yes! Police go arrest taya! I noticed a popularly controversial singer, or is it a controversially famous singer(?) has been running from pillar to post pleading with the EFCC and people who know some people who know those in power that he shouldn’t be arrested because the money he’d been…
Things now differ in Nigeria from when T.M. Aluko wrote his “One man, one matchet” which was published way back in 1964. “One man, one matchetOne woman, one stickOne child, one stone.” Mr Aluko, we’re sorry sir. We regret the fact that we’re disappointing you. We’re no longer in the “stone” age! We’ve certainly moved…
