Off the cuff? – Adewale Sobowale

Having watched the Iwuanyawu video clip severally, my thoughts are, The man definitely didn’t speak off the cuff ! Somewhere in the speech, when he mentioned “Yoruba,” he stopped the sentence and said, “They are political rascals.” As I said, I watched the video with rapid attention and severally too. A Yoruba will be right…

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Faye is Senegal’s new president!

Opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye has become Senergal’s new President. Fay, a newcomer popular among the youth, promised to govern with humility and transparency on Monday. Faye’s main rival has called him to concede defeat. He thanked President Macky Sall and other candidates for respecting Senegal’s democratic values. He said, “In electing me, the Senegalese…

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Italy detains NGO doctors!

Doctors Without Borders, the Swiss charity group, has vehemently denied the allegations by Italy that its rescue ship, the Geo Barents, failed to comply with instructions as the organization protested another detainment issue by the Italian Coast Guard. The rescue vehicle was ordered to be held for 20 days after disembarking its latest group of…

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Court! – Adewale Sobowale

I gather the petrol distributor has been sentenced to jail. She’s to remain behind bars for twenty seven months. While praising the justice system for doing the needful, I would have thought it better for justice to have some comical effects. For instance, if she couldn’t serve as petroleum minister, why not as a gas…

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…Takes A Bastard… – Adewale Sobowale

At the rate the Yoruba people are going, the number of bastards will eventually be much more than those born genuinely! Well, should ‘genuinely’ even be the right word? Why? So many proponents of Oduduwa or Odua or Yoruba or, even, Lamurudu Republic are ‘short fused’ (remember that phrase?) when others differ from their opinion….

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Results! – Adewale Sobowale

I love people who are reflective. People who are reflective don’t act impulsively. Rather, they think of the consequences of their actions before embarking on them! Nigerians have generally voted in Mr Buhari for another four years. Whether or not the election was as a result of deep thought does not matter now. We have…

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