Forty-Eight billion naira! That’s a heck of a lot of money! That’s how much asset Governor Seyi Makinde declared recently. That’s novel. Forty-Eight billion naira is novel in Oyo State.…
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You get accidentally knocked down by a car in the middle of Ibadan…knocked down hard into unconsciousness…what do you think bystanders would do (or can do) to help save your…
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“This is not about Atiku Abubakar. It is about democracy, rule of law and the future of Nigeria. Let no one be deceived about the ultimate objective of these anti-democratic…
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When he was governor of Lagos State, Raji Fashola was notorious for collecting tolls. The joke used to be that if he constructed one foot of road, he would charge…
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Not knowing how to quit the stage when the ovation is loudest is one of the banes of African presidencies. Once they become celebrated as heroes, the power, allure, perks…
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With all due respect to all of the 2019 Oyo State gubernatorial candidates who are not from the Oke-Ogun area, it is the turn of Oke-Ogun to produce the next…
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You go in for severe headache. Without checking your pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature; without taking fluid samples and testing them, they diagnose you with Typhoid fever.…
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You probably saw the video the other day…of Nigerian army personnel in an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), being pelted with stones, bottles and all other kinds of projectiles by a…
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“Listen! We have done this and we have done it! That’s it! Nothing is going to happen! All that you are seeing right now…all those people shouting all over social…
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Your Excellency Sir, There are no better ways to say this: The release of that Eid-el-Fitri message to us through the BBC Hausa outlet, in Hausa language, convinced even those…
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(1). A woman called her cousin in a neighboring country. Her cousin was single and living alone. She was my friend. “I am flying down to spend the weekend with…
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Saraki took to Facebook recently to lament that a clique may have hijacked the government of Muhammadu Buhari. Hear him: “What has become clear is that there is now a…
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Abi na Avengers dem dey call una? How many ears you get? Wetin you dey take the ears do? Listen to me very carefully as I talk some sense into…
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One Governor rules his State like the Greek King Sisyphus who was notorious for his imperious, self-aggrandizing, bullish style; the other governs his State like a Mujaheed, perpetually waging a…
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Your APC government has increased the official pump price of fuel from N86 to N145. No. You can’t be serious. That was one of the illegal, fuel scarcity prices. Oh…
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All of a sudden, Nigerians are clamoring for made-in-Nigeria goods. Until this month, few Nigerians outside of Nnewi, Anambra State had heard of Innoson Motors, even though the company’s automobile…