The Chief Executive Officer of Bellagio Airline, Dr. Oludare Akande OON and top officials of the airline operator, on Monday met with Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde. The pictures:
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Nigeria of the 1950s and early 1960s had very many interesting personalities. Western Region had its fair share of such. One of them was a man named Suara Sobo Akande (Sobo is pronounced as Sorbor). He was a prominent transporter who held the transportation industry of the time by its jugular. An Ibadan man of the Opo Yeosa clan who lived in an area now known as Ring Road, Suara Sobo was wealthy and had a fleet of lorries in his pool. As a trade logo, Suara Sobo’s lorries always had monkeys chained to their entrance which excited and attracted…
Governor Makinde decided to give approval for the Installation and presentation of the Staff of offices to some Obas in Oyo state this week. The trio of the Alaawe of Aawe town, The Onifiditi of Fiditi and the Elempe of Tapa got reprieve from the Emperor. Sadly, Governor Makinde still keep the world guessing about the stool of the Olubadan. Neither did he think it is time for him to allow the ancient town of Oyo have the Alaafin. Governor Makinde must be enjoying the spectacle. The privilege to tell everyone that he is in charge. Unfortunately for the Governor,…
It was in 1992. My selection as a member of the ward Executive of the Social Democratic Party, (SDP) in Aborerin ward 4 was just ratified by the ward Executive. My selection was made possible by my first mentor in politics, Mr. Jacob Adelakun, the ward secretary at the time. Those were times when politics was politics. The Party was supreme in all sense of the word. The organisational structures of the two registered political parties, the SDP and the National Republican Convention, (NRC) were well defined. The Military Government of Gen. Aliyu Badamosi Babangida built Party offices in all…
Take it or leave it, the Northern part of this country have demonstrated times without number that It is more politically savvy than the South. I have not seen a Nigerian president who was not elected at the mercy of the North. The 1993 failed presidential election which would have produced the late Basorun MKO Abiola as president did look like this insinuation may not apply to all presidential ballots. I am of the firm view that the results of that election was a reflection of a general consensus orchestrated by the North. If you have any doubt, go and…
Nigerians have indeed suffered tremendously in the last one year. Not strictly the hunger tugging at our bellies. That pestilence of hunger was brilliantly conveyed by the whammy soundbite, “Ebi npa wa o” as Lagos Island people’s response to the president’s fleet of gleaming SUVs last year. As an aside, permit the pun, I think that national soundbite deserves a Grammy. Lacerating words from those who rule us even rub salt on our hunger injury. They make Christians race for their bibles to read the famous and incredulous story of King Rehoboam, Solomon’s son and successor. Some young men had…
The moin-moin thinks it is wise. It hides part of itself within the folds of éwé eeran, the green-turned-bronzy leaves encasing it. Hungry Man unfurls the leafy wraps, using his fingers or spoon as a rake, scraping out the moin-moin clinging behind the leaves: ibi pelebe la ti ń mú òlè je, the Yoruba say. Moin-moin eating starts peripherally, not centrally. The etiquette for consuming moin-moin and agidi is written in native intelligence. If you finger, spoon, knife or fork móín-móín and èko headlong, you lose premium on quantity. Moin-moin eating is like an orchestra performance – building suspense in…
I read the statement of the former Senator Adesoji Akanbi where he lamented what he perceived as the maltreatment of Oyo state by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Soji Akanbi is the founder and coordinator of the Coalition Movement for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, (COMBAT), one of the support Groups that worked for the emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as presidential candidate of the APC and later as president of Nigeria. Soji Akanbi’s contribution to Tinubu’s aspirations is unflagging and not in doubts. An analyst and Senior staff TV Continental, a Television station allegedly owned by Tinubu gave credence to the…
Governor Seyi Makinde’s handshake has gone beyond the elbow in the way he has been trampling on the cherished custom of ascension of the Olubadan Stool. Those who have been overtly or covertly supporting the Governor to cut his nose in a bid to spite his face are doing him and his legacy no good. Oyo state Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy affairs yesterday announced that the Governor had approved the nomination of the Olubadan designate and stopped at that. That information is stale and doesn’t sit well with anyone apart from the Governor and those who think he…
The late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi had amassed formidable enemies for himself in the field of politics, the students Associations, the Civil service and the elites. In his party, the APC, the nomination of Bayo Adelabu as Its gubernatorial candidate resulted in an implosion that rocked the party to Its very roots. The late Governor also had unresolved issues with the Labour Union in the state as a result of arrears of unpaid salaries, gratuity and allowances. The issue he had with the students of tertiary Institutions in the state climaxed during an altercation between the Governor and the students…