By Dapo Falade Reading through the piece by one Maroof Asudemade, titled “Misfortunes of Senatorial Representation in Oyo South: KK-D to the Rescue”, as reported in some online publications, the initial reaction should have been to ignore him and his jaundiced write up. This is informed by the popular saying that you don’t join to…
I have been silent for quite sometime because, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has told me that, for the next election, coming up in 2023, he will not pick any candidate for any position (may his soul rest in peace). The late governor equally said everybody will go for primary elections, who ever wins the primary will…
Without any equivocation, His Excellency, Alhaji Lam Onaolapo Adesina ranks among the greatest progressive politicians of note in the country. My initial encounter was in the year 1999, when we were preparing for election. I hailed from Ido Local Government, arguably the strongest base of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Southwest due to the fact…
I did say in my last State of the Nation intervention essay published in October in most of Nigeria’s leading newspapers and worldwide in the social media that while God expects the state and its institutions of administration to attend to secular matters, He is nonetheless interested in fairness, equity and justice as man discharges…
Nebuchadnezzar used selection and had a successful government.Most countries use election, and their failures are evident. Selection produced strong, healthy, enlightened, versatile, gifted, talented, refined and eloquent leaders in Babylon. (Daniel 1:4) Elections have largely produced rich, fake, myopic, and selfish people around the world. Democracy is crazy because the majority carry the vote. What…
Obi Cubana and the Oba Burial | By Reuben Abati The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give them a befitting burial. They liken this to the same manner when fire dies out in the hearth, it…
•Let them hate me, as long as they fear me – Caligula, Roman Emperor (37 to 41 AD) All through history, even with the advent of modernism, despots who hate the power of free speech always have their own version of repressive ancient monarchies’ abenilori. These were the ones entrusted with the task of beheading…
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude. i. The Yoruba elite and area-boy…
By Wole Balogun The recent outing in Abuja that featured the arbitration by the Nigerian Senate’s Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, chaired by the distinguished Senator Ayo Akinyelure of Ondo Central Federal Constituency, over the contending issues between the Governing Council of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), and the embattled esthwhile Registar of…
A mischievous WhatsApp message placed below has been going viral on some WhatsApp group platforms, spreading a blatant lie that Dr (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi was dancing with Chief Bayo Adelabu on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of her husband, late Senator Abiola Ajimobi. What’s more appalling is the fact that many people…
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