I was just informed a few minutes ago of the withdrawal of the appointment offered me as the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan Ahmed Lawan. I had hitherto enjoyed every of the diatribes provoked by the appointment. I was told it was the most…
Joseph Sanusi Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu…he was born on the 3rd of September, 1915 and died on the 25th of March, 1958, certainly lived like a meteor and his rise was meteoric. He was Ibadan’s most prominent politician of his time. He was born in Oke-Oluokun, Ibadan, to Sanusi Ashiyanbi Adeyege Adelabu and his mother was…
Did Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State realize that, in his first official pronouncement on May 29, 2019 stopping the payment of N3000 by school pupils, he had unwittingly provoked a strong ideological sentiment which had been bottled overtime? Discussions on this issue have polarized indigenes and residents along divides of ideology, class and beliefs….
My grandfather used to say: “If you look at a tree long enough, it will move.” We see what we want to see. Psychologists tell us that nothing controls our lives more than our self-image. We live like the person we see in the mirror. We are what we think we are. If you don’t…
A crystal clear difference! Class can never be bought! Post-Ajimobi Government Achievement Review number 1 Governor Ajimobi first assignment when he resumed Office in 2011 was to make sure that lives and properties were safe and secured. First Assignment of Seyi Makinde was inviting businessmen/Women for a talk. Here is my point: No investors or…
Alhaji Lamidi Adelabu was the Balogun Musulumi of Oyo State. He had a big mosque in his expansive Molete residence in Ibadan which was hardly free of activity on any given day. Adedibu’s engagements in the mosques were complemented by prayer sessions observed by visitors and political associates who thronged the residence daily. Yet, there…
Florence Ajimobi was born in Benin City on the 5th of April, 1959, to the Hajaig family of Lebanon, but she grew up in the ancient city of Ibadan. 2. She is a graduate of Secretarial Studies and Management from The Polytechnic Ibadan. 3. She got married to Abiola Ajimobi in 1980, and the marriage…
Dateline: Saturday, March 29, 1997. Ebun Olojede Street, off Festac 1st Gate, Amuwo, Lagos. The mood at the traditional wedding/introduction ceremony just got upbeat as the bride after the usual motions of customary courtesies and bestowal of blessings by her family and the groom’s, smilingly took her seat beside me on the special nuptial chairs…
•By Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan Many people were stunned by his defeat in the 2014 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State. Some could not even figure out why a man who was and still is, an epitome of leadership finesse could be denied a second term by the same people he laboured to serve. While in…
I quoted “APC FIGURE” because Otunba Alao-Akala is an ADP candidate who signed an agreement to support APC in the just concluded 2019 gubernatorial election._ Few days to the Oyo Guber elections, the National Leadership of the APC, having realised the great damage done to the popularity of APC by Gov. Abiola Ajimobi during the…
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