Our last week intervention was on the unsavoury of political violence in Rivers State under the title “And Fubara Removed His SIM Card From Wike’s Phone.” In that discourse, I drew the attention of us all to the emerging, if not established, pattern of godfatherism in the land. To a certain [...]
A few years ago, a novelist played a critical role in my appreciation of powerplay among leaders of society with his cast of child characters lost on an island after a shipwreck. It is the novel titled Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a British novelist and playwright. The beginning [...]
No summary may better describe governance as a serious business than a 2012 LinkedIn publication by SanmiAdekola published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/governance-serious- business-part-i-sanmi-adekola/?trk=articles_directorywhere the writer observed that “Beyond the façade, governance is a serious business. Great leaders give the people what they need, average leaders give the people what they want. Society progresses [...]
On a number of occasions, I have had cause to interrogate the country’s electoral justice system in terms of both efficiency and result. In all the autopsy, not really diagnosis, done by me, I have found shortfalls/drawbacks in the electoral justice system. I recall that in some of my prior [...]
IT was Chidi Odinkalu that recently wrotean article titled, ‘Judiciary As A Lost Hopeof the Common Man’. The article whichtrended for a reasonable period in the socialmedia, was misconstrued in some quartersto be an indictment on the judiciary and, byextension, the judicial officers. I honestlydo not see it from that [...]
Within a month prior to the composition and inauguration of the Lagos State government cabinet, I had cause to proactively intervene twice in this column on the affairs of the State. The interventions, misconstrued in some quarters to be a criticism of the leadership of the State, was essentially to draw [...]
The past few days have been dominated by a strident call for justice for a young music star, Ilerioluwa Aloba otherwise popularly known as “Mohbad” or “Imole”. I must not pretend to have a good knowledge of the existence or the enthralling musical exploits of this great icon until a few [...]
Sometimes ago, I wrote a piece titled ‘Long Live the King’ ( See my column in the Daily Sun of 1th May 2023 https://sunnewsonline.com/long-live-the-king/ ). In that column, I drew our attention to various plagues besieging the traditional institutions in Nigeria, particularly in the south western part of the country. In that [...]
There is a Yoruba aphorism that says: Ida n ba ile ara e je, o ni oun n ba ako je. This literally translates to mean that the sword is destroying its own home but claims it is destroying the scabbard. It is a witty presentation of a case of [...]
Sitting quietly in the hotel lobby of Radisson Blu in Ikeja could be exhilarating and reflecting at times. As skimpily clad young ladies troop into the expansive space, seemingly oblivious of critical eyes of the elderly, the young men, in flirting gaiety abandon what modesty probably prescribes as all go about [...]