On Apologies! – Adewale Sobowale

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. I was then a…

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Not Yet Uhuru! – Adewale Sobowale

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 many proofs of undemocratic…

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Buhari’s Train! – Adewale Sobowale

So Buhari could go and commission a railway service in Lagos? He’s probably too old to remember he cancelled the metro-line project embarked upon by Alhaji Lateef Jakande when he toppled the Shagari government in 1984.The project handlers were said to have gone to court and it was alleged that the Lagos state government had…

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