Ali Baba and a midnight honour
The celebrated British author, Jeffrey Archer, on July 4, 1993, published a bestseller titled Honour Among Thieves. The novel takes…
Category: Commentary
The N10.5b constituency Ponzi in Rivers
Let’s begin with a famous admonition of Jesus in Matthew 7:1-6. He says “Do not judge or you too will…
Gov Radda: The fog on our radar
Imagined! A sitting governor ferociously laying empty claims to stealing rights? You too wonder aloud? But it did happen! Yes.…
An Imam and humanity’s true definition
A Muslim friend, at the weekend, drew my attention to a 58-second video of how Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) responded to…
Ibadan is Oyo
Monday Lines 1 On Monday, 25 March, 1946, Chief I. B. Akinyele, Chief James Ladejo Ogunsola, Messrs D. T. Akinbiyi…
EFCC: Time to release Salami’s report
Is there a bombshell report indicting the current leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of commission of humongous…
Trump and the ruin of Kurunmi
To the north of Ibadan, on the way to Iseyin, is a village perpetually wearing mournful, forlorn looks. You must…
Rivers: Lessons from Nasarawa
“I am in politics to baptize politics and make it pure”—Rev. Fr Moses Adasu. The last time a Nigerian governor…
If morning shows the day…
By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 Two momentous events, nay three, closed Year 2025 and flung…
Black is White, Foul is Fair, Wrong is Right
Monday Lines 1 A trending video shows Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, interrogating his national football team after their recent loss…
Lateef Fagbemi, Malami and the curse of history
So Nigeria’s arguably most powerful man just two years and seven months ago, who hulked over the Muhammadu Buhari administration…
Don Pedro and beautiful Benin
A few years ago, a telecommunications outfit set out to erect a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) at the back of…
Gov Makinde, his sons and his ‘friends’
Monday Lines 1 “Beware the quiet man; for while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And…
Babafemi, JAMB spokesman and the deepening “Afenifere” confraternity
My birth dad died in 1990. 15 years later, precisely August 2005, God gave me a new dad. In the…
Before Tinubu metamorphoses into another Donald Trump…
By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0803 251 0193, 0807 552 5533 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has threatened to resort to the…
My man of the season
Christmas is two days away. This is a season of celebration. It is a time we celebrate relations, friends and…
Gumi and his terrorists
Monday Lines 1 During the Kiriji War of the nineteenth century, a grim parable of war came and became a…
Tinubu delivers for Dangote but…
Christmas surely came early for walking-wealth, Aliko Dangote. He asked for a scalp, the President gave him two heads. The…
ADC Palaver: A memo to Tinubu against staging a coup on military tradition
By Yushau A. Shuaib Mr. President, sir, I hope this open letter will not be misconstrued, as happened about six…
Man-of-the-people, man-of-himself
Whatever Comrade Adams Oshiomhole lacks in height and body volume, he makes up for in mischief. If you are not…