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Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 6 May 2024) A young taxi driver sat on the bonnet of his car some years ago thoroughly frustrated by Nigeria’s unending petrol mess. A television reporter asked him to speak on his experience in that […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 13 November 2023) Everyone has a history; how you act and tell your story defines you. Ace comedian and celebrity, Helen Paul, trended wildly last week. Men and women with very difficult beginnings should seek out […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 6 November 2023) “We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it.” I do not know under what condition Bob Dylan wrote that song line. All I know is that it serves […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow An oba is put on the throne to keep “the bush at bay.” Collectively and individually, the successful oba is praised as “so’gbó di’lé/sò’gbé dì’gboro/ oba a s’ààtàn d’ojà – the successful king is he who turns forest to home; the one who […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 24 July 2023) Given today’s state of the nation, it is likely that both Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr. Peter Obi are thanking their stars that they were not the ones declared as our elected president […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 3 July, 2023) Immediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently waxed proverbial and made a Facebook post which sounded like a loud complaint: “The axe forgets but the tree remembers…They are the axe. We are […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 19 June 2023) In 1948, Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, thought of the best way to protect his country’s security information from invasive media toxins. He summed his strategy up in one short sentence: “Take […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 5 June, 2023) It was quite nice seeing President Bola Tinubu as he waltzed into the chambers where he met security chiefs last Thursday. “Morning,” he greets the chiefs. “Shall we sit or…” They murmur. His […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 29 May, 2023) There is a road in Canada that is officially known as ‘Road to Nowhere’. Road signs there say so. At the terminal point of that road is virtually nothing apart from an access […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 15 May, 2023) May Sudan not happen to Nigeria. This piece starts with prayers. It has to. “Everyone in Africa believes in God…It’s the only way we can survive. People leave home praying that there will […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 8 May, 2023) The one who hasn’t been hit by war calls himself a man (Eni ìjà ò bá níí pe ‘ra è l’ókùnrin). The word for ‘fight’ in Yoruba is ‘ija’; but ‘ija’ is much […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 1 May, 2023) It was almost a missed call; or, more appropriately, an ignored call because the telephone number was unusual – an eight-digit number. But, something told me: pick it, and I did. “Hello, is […] More
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