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Seyi Makinde scores own goal

I was privileged to know that senior advisors to Governor Seyi Makinde were in talks with top representatives of the dissolved Oyo State local government chairmen for a negotiated settlement of the impasse arising from the dissolution…

Meghan’s mugu and the Harrys around us

WHO owns the world: a man or a woman? This sexist question won’t ever be objectively answered because Yoruba will say, ibi to k’oju s’enikan, eyin lo ko selomiran (perspectives aren’t panoramic). Women in their wiles love playing the victim…

Amotekun: Yoruba e fun ra o!

MY verdict: 1 Corinthians 1:27. I will explain.No doubt, Operation Amotekun came into existence a paralytic, disabled from the womb by its promoters, touched down on the cradle, nearly a still-birth, surviving right now in an incubator,…

Can we exhume Oloye too?

MY verdict: Kwara State O to ge governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq is not a good administrator. I will explain.Hours after I landed in Lagos as the chief servant (pray, where thou hideth Babangida Aliyu)  over seven years back, Nigeria’s…

A song like Senator Uwajumogu

BEFORE his passing penultimate Wednesday, after collapsing in his bathroom, Imo senator, Ben Uwajumogu, had fought one of the bitterest political battles of this dispensation to be in the senate. Closest to his, is his kinsman’s, the…

The six-year single term gambit

EBORA Owu, Olusegun Mathew Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo, messed up Nigeria’s golden opportunity to rethink and retool her democratic credentials in 2006 with the morbid decision to play along with Ibrahim Mantu and his Senate gangsters, on the…

A President and his household enemies

WHATEVER anyone may say, kudos should be given to Major General Muhammadu Buhari, president of the federal republic for remaining stoic in public, despite the domestic civil war, raging inside his bedroom, since the early life of his…