Nigeria’s budget by Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Facebook The Yoruba have a saying: The elder who refuses to shout at the start of a misdemeanour, will only have themselves to blame when the anticipated result becomes glaring.     In his so-called “Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity,” the Nigerian President, Mr Bola Tinubu allocated 1.7 per cent or N826.5 billion…

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Crazy System! – Adewale Sobowale

A video clip has gone viral on social media about a lady who was alleged to have stolen a phone. Amongst other indignities, the lady was stripped naked and had pepper inserted into her private organs. I couldn’t believe the fact that that’s happening in modern-day Nigeria. But then, what’s modern about Nigeria? Is Nigeria…

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Perfect Cure! – Adewale Sobowale

I hereby tender my unreserved apology to Field Marshall Mohammed Buhari. I had seen no good in him due to his antecedents as military Head of State. I, therefore, refused to vote for him as a civilian president! I just felt his torpedoing an elected president disqualified him for the exalted post of a democratically…

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Prosecutors! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Punch Newspaper In the eighties, specifically 1983, when public buildings were getting burnt by insiders turned arsonists, Ray Ekpu, the celebrated journalist predicted that the NET building would be one of the next to be burnt. Presto! The building was burnt. That’s no news. The news is the fact that Ekpu was arrested….

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