Aso Villa voices and follies
There are times when the reverse appears more profound than the original. This is the case with the fascinating quote by Walter Lippmann: “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom.” Perhaps more...
View Article‘We must complete our eight years’
Days to the country’s potentially reforming presidential election rescheduled for March 28, the language and logic of compulsion coming from the camp of President Goodluck Jonathan deserve...
View ArticleProblem beyond the polls
Two days after the country’s presidential poll, the immortal lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth are relevant : “When the hurlyburly’s done – When the battle’s lost and won.” Against the background of...
View ArticleAmbode’s ‘CHELSEA UNITED’
Why would anyone want to leave a winning path? This is the key question for the electorate ahead of the Lagos State governorship election expected to hold on April 11. The question perhaps requires no...
View ArticleOutsiders inside
How did it happen that three Igbo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in Lagos State won elections into the House of Representatives in the March 28 polls? How did the winners defeat Yoruba...
View ArticleThe writer’s wrestle
A few days ago, my eyes were drawn to email on “the book no one would publish.” It was one of the “eclectic excerpts” delivered regularly to my email address. After reading it, I felt like sharing it....
View ArticleHow does it feel to be Shekau?
IT is thought-provoking that Abubakar Shekau, the elusive leader of Nigeria’s Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, has a place among “The World’s Most Influential People” listed by TIME. The identified...
View ArticleShettima on my mind
FOR the first time, I decided to reproduce a previously published article. With the country’s general elections concluded, I reflected on the incoming state governors, particularly Kashim Shettima of...
View ArticleHow long will APC rule?
For a party that emerged through a marvellous merger just two years ago and on the verge of ruling-party status at the federal level, it may seem premature to contemplate the life expectancy of the All...
View Article‘Collective madness’
Ironically, Nigeria’s luminary of letters, Nobelist Wole Soyinka, lost the election for the prestigious poetry chair at the University of Oxford for non-poetry reasons. His defeat by British poet Simon...
View ArticleSupremacy is supreme
DOES superiority necessarily mean the same thing as supremacy? This is the thought-provoking question prompted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s word choice when he addressed members of the National...
View ArticleHello homo
FOR those who insist on the exaggerated idea that the recent pro-homosexuality decision by the United States Supreme Court possibly marks the beginning of the end for mankind, it must be said that the...
View ArticleProblem beyond the polls
Two days after the country’s presidential poll, the immortal lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth are relevant : “When the hurlyburly’s done – When the battle’s lost and won.” Against the background of...
View ArticleAmbode’s ‘CHELSEA UNITED’
Why would anyone want to leave a winning path? This is the key question for the electorate ahead of the Lagos State governorship election expected to hold on April 11. The question perhaps requires no...
View ArticleOutsiders inside
How did it happen that three Igbo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in Lagos State won elections into the House of Representatives in the March 28 polls? How did the winners defeat Yoruba...
View ArticleThe writer’s wrestle
A few days ago, my eyes were drawn to email on “the book no one would publish.” It was one of the “eclectic excerpts” delivered regularly to my email address. After reading it, I felt like sharing it....
View ArticleHow does it feel to be Shekau?
IT is thought-provoking that Abubakar Shekau, the elusive leader of Nigeria’s Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, has a place among “The World’s Most Influential People” listed by TIME. The identified...
View ArticleShettima on my mind
FOR the first time, I decided to reproduce a previously published article. With the country’s general elections concluded, I reflected on the incoming state governors, particularly Kashim Shettima of...
View ArticleHow long will APC rule?
For a party that emerged through a marvellous merger just two years ago and on the verge of ruling-party status at the federal level, it may seem premature to contemplate the life expectancy of the All...
View Article‘Collective madness’
Ironically, Nigeria’s luminary of letters, Nobelist Wole Soyinka, lost the election for the prestigious poetry chair at the University of Oxford for non-poetry reasons. His defeat by British poet Simon...
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