Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow When did wealth become the determinant to rule in what generically is called Yorubaland today? Was there a word known as “Yoruba” at the time Oduduwa ruled Ile-Ife? Was Odua an Ooni? Reports in some journals are perverting the history of Ile-Ife […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Sometime in 1970, General Yakubu Gowon, in his true element of frankness, returned from a trip to Equatorial Guinea and told journalists at the airport of his wish of a Nigeria that would be a pride of Africa in all respects. Click here […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Internet has been awash with alleged improprieties of some South-west former office holders. Some are accused of land grabbing and financial irregularities. Others are said to have signed certificates of occupancy for lands after they left office. How one would wish these […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow President Muhammadu Buhari swore to uphold the constitution and laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria last May 29. On that same day he made a covenant with Nigerians to fight corruption and improve their living conditions. Buhari has not spent 100 days […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Success could be cruel because it destroys its beneficiary if one is not properly prepared to receive the new status. The aplomb and gaiety that accompany success inebriate the so-called lucky ones. It is not only artistes that fall prey to the grandeur […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Nigeria is full of claim jumpers who do violence to history for pecuniary reasons. It could not have been otherwise especially now that politics has lost its soul to mercenaries who change their parties as frequently as Marilyn Monroe changed her corsets, so […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Nigeria is regaining her due respect in the comity of nations after some decades in international political antipodes. The reception for President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House by American President Barack Obama, with such an unusual grandeur, tells the grade Nigeria now […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Nigerian security services are at the bar of public opinion now after their scathing performances in the last 16 years of constitutional rule. How far did they acquit themselves individually at the court of public justice according to the law? To some of […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Greeks spoke loud enough to tell the world that their land fathered Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. They reminded the world that they are no feeding-bottle people to be guided by so-called supra-national bodies whose assistance benefits the banks and the trading class. They […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Joseph Wayas beat Justice Atake with one vote to emerge as Senate president in 1979. Surprisingly, some Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN’s senators were rumoured to have voted for Wayas against their party’s directive. Gayus Bulama of former Gongola State, did not hide […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The phone rang at late noon and the caller was my colleague, the indefatigable nationalist, Prince Anthony Momoh. It was at an hour unexpected because Tony takes calls and rings at night. Without waiting for the usual collegial exchanges, he asked; “Where is […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Nigerians now have problems with standard and taste. Salihu Ibrahim, former chief of army staff’s description of the Nigerian Army of his charge fits the present character of the average Nigerian of today. He had said then that his force was where, “anything […] More
WhatsApp us