Category: Column

If Tinubu Were Today’s Opposition Leader I would have agreed that protests would happen on August 1, 2024, if the graph had been plotted by Godfather Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But…

Supper For Nigeria’s Àkébàjé Every home has at least one spoilt child. Such a child is known as an Àkébàjé among my people. The Àkébàjé Omo cries for meat when…

Tinubu, ECOWAS And Its Rebellious Boys I danced on Sunday when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was re-elected as Chairman of ECOWAS. I rejoiced because his re-election will give him an…

Nigeria Nor Be Kenya “Kabiyesi, the message which I bring you today is the message of all the women who have left their stalls, their homes and children, their farms,…

Hunger For Us, Jet For Them “Good morning, sir, what do you think about the southwest governors’ forum and their recent collaboration efforts? Let’s leave Tinubu for a week or…

Between Our Govt And New York Times The New York Times in its June 11, 2024, edition described Nigeria as a nation of 200 million citizens who are skilled at…

Distinguished Senator Cow And His Human Rights As the sitting president in 2016, General Muhammadu Buhari told the Emir of Katsina that “It would be foolhardy for someone to just…

The King Has No Friends Marcus Brutus, the villain of William Shakespear’s epic drama, Julius Caesar, poetically defines the emergence of dictators thus: …But ‘tis a common proof, That lowliness…

One Kano, Two Emirs There can be only one Oba (king) in a palace. That was how our forebears arranged our traditional settings. The saying in Yoruba that Oba kìí…

My Pension, Your Pension In The Hands Of ‘Lagos’ Lagos does not have restraints when it comes to spending money. His first name is Nínál’owó (Money is meant to be…