Religionise good governance
Recent revelatory events reinforce the thinking that until Nigeria embraces good governance with religious zeal, or more exactly, as a religion, the country may be going nowhere. A striking pointer was...
View ArticleWhen doctors need physicians
Truth, however underdressed, will always be more magnetic than untruth, however overdressed. This truism will be put to the test in the governorship elections in Ekiti State on June 21 and Osun State...
View ArticleLucky, laundry manager
Even in the context of constant flux and the implication that everything is perpetually evolving, the latest contribution by Lucky Igbinedion, a former governor of Edo State, to the business of image...
View ArticleA king’s confident prophecy
If there are no complicating factors, or even despite the possibility that there could be, the campaign to have Akinwunmi Ambode succeed two-term Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola in 2015 may well...
View ArticleWhat about anti-state capacity?
So much has been expressed about the limitations of the Jonathan presidency and the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the context of so-called state capacity, especially concerning the...
View ArticlePoverty in the eyes of power
Speaking about poverty is understandably easier than experiencing it, especially when the speaker is rich and powerful. So, Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha may be forgiven for his apparent claim to...
View ArticleKing of cash
Possibly the most thought-provoking definition of money can be found in the hot book, The Richest Man in Babylon, by George Samuel Clason. The author said, “Money is the medium by which earthly...
View ArticleDr Walker’s example
Beyond the ceremonialism that highlighted the sensational return of two Benin bronze works removed from the ancient kingdom over a century ago, a creative reading of the subtext could be eye-opening....
View Article‘I was just angry that day’
No leap of the imagination can conclusively clarify the mind-boggling assault perpetrated by 21-year-old Tolani Ajayi against his 64-year-old father. It is enlightening that even Tolani himself is...
View ArticlePR for Pure Ridiculousness
It is laughable, not to say nonsensical, that the Goodluck Jonathan presidency, in an apparently desperate pursuit of image laundering, has reportedly contracted an American communications firm to...
View ArticleOsun: Between heroism and histrionics
It is telling that a radio debate organised for the candidates in the Osun State governorship election on August 9 turned out to be a one-man show after all. A statement by the Director of Publicity,...
View ArticleEbola and myopia
Perhaps the most striking and fascinating preventive calculation in the Ebola battle is the informal restriction of Prophet Temitope Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Lagos, who...
View ArticleCelebration of cerebration
It was a phone conversation as narrated by a witty personality who was being celebrated for his services to the world of letters. Ambassador Oladapo Olusola Fafowora, 73, was speaking on behalf of the...
View ArticleOne year of fatherlessness
God is my father Nature is my mother The Universe is my way Eternity is my Kingdom Immortality is my Life The Mind is my house Truth is my worship Love is my Law Form is my manifestation Conscience is...
View Article‘Gold medal for public service’
In the context of the reality that words have denotative value, it is worth contemplating the import of a particular letter of commendation and its remarkable testimonial quality. It was written by the...
View ArticleChris and Anita
Interestingly, a public notice published in newspapers obliquely concretised earlier reports of an impending legalised split between Rev. Chris Oyakhilome and his wife, Anita. The 50-year-old...
View ArticleAngel Ameyo
Wat does it mean to be characterised as angelic? Illumination came at the solemn Night of Tributes and Service of Songs organised to say a formal and final farewell to the departed Dr. Ameyo Stella...
View ArticleNaming the nameable
Although it sounded like incremental repetition, it added little to the state of things and ultimately proved to be effectively unuseful. If the ambition of Nobelist Wole Soyinka was to concretely...
View ArticlePresidential choreography
Beyond President Goodluck Jonathan’s unprecedented exclusive endorsement for re-election by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state governors, Board of Trustees and National Executive Committee, which...
View ArticleAmeyo’s apparition and Amosun’s ecstasy
It is imaginable that she was an unseen presence at the show, and possibly other ethereal beings were in attendance. “Why not now?” she might have wondered. Those in a position to answer the question...
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