By Tunde Odesola The waves washed the blue whale ashore at midnight, an abomination that daybreak must not see. Sadly, not a thousand hefty men can secretly push the big fish back into the receding sea; what is left is a lie to tell that the shore was a better habitat for the fish than […]
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By Sufuyan Ojeifo Captain ‘Hosa Okunbo is 64 years today (January 7, 2022). If he were to be here with us, would he have celebrated his Especial Day with pomp and ceremony? Perhaps, yes; perhaps, no. His decision as to the scale of celebration would have been shaped by exigent circumstance(s). But to be sure, […]
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By Olukorede Yishau On Tuesday, we all got another piece of evidence that we are deceiving ourselves as a nation. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was at an estate in Magodo to intervene in a crisis that has seen policemen from Abuja, the nation’s seat of power, lay siege and make the new year start […]
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By Omirhobo The constitution of a country is a contract that legally binds it’s people and their government. Like every other contract, a constitution is valid only if it is consensual amongst the people of a country and essentially devoid from misrepresentation, mistake, duress, undue influence and illegality. Looking at the Nigerian 1999 constitution, can […]
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Magodo The anxiety and fear generated between members of the Shangisha Landlords Association on the one hand and members of the Magodo Residents’ Association (MRA) on the other over the ownership of landed properties on the highbrow Magodo area of Lagos State are totally uncalled for and should have no place in a lawful society. […]
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Archbishop emeritus, ‘South Africa’s moral conscience’ and Nobel Peace Prize winner dies at 90 When he won the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, it was a significant endorsement of his non-violent approach to anti-apartheid activism. It was a measure of his stature that he had previously been nominated for the award in 1981, 1982, […]
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By Chud Uchegbu On December 28, while many were reveling in Christmas festivities, President Olusegun Obasanjo, as he used to be, was at his desk writing a letter to Chief Edwin Clark, acclaimed leader of the Ijaw nation. Obasanjo’s letter was in response to allegations against him contained in a Chief Clark’s earlier letter titled […]
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By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie The inquiry Sonny Okosun made four decades ago in his song “Papa’s Land”, remains a task. “We want to know who owns the land,” he sang. Today, we still need to ask ourselves that question: Who owns the land? It has once again come to fore in former President Olusegun […]
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By Tunde Odesola As the new year unfurls its carpet of promise and hope, it won’t be nice to stain the carpet, so early, with footprints from the dunghill of sufferings created last year by the President Buhari-led administration. Therefore, I won’t dwell on Buhari and his government in my inaugural article of 2022. There […]
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In this file photo taken on April 23, 2014 Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu gestures during a press conference about the first 20 years of freedom in South Africa at St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town . – South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died on December 26, […]
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