This is the week of the Local Government Election in Oyo state. It is a week we have all been looking towards. Some are looking towards Saturday, 27th April with hope of a new dawn, some with scepticism and many with fear and apprehension. You can not blame anyone. People’s attitudes are usually determined by the history or account of their past and in this regard, the Electoral umpire, the OYSIEC doesn’t smell like roses. ” Going back to Egypt” is a dreaded statement in Christiandom. To a Christian, Egypt signifies slavery, hunger, deprivation, oppression and death. Egypt represents a…
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The West African Examination Council, WAEC have released Its ranking of states for the year 2023. Oyo state, according to the list sits at number twenty six behind states like Kogi, Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kano and even Boko Haram ravaged Borno state! In the South West, Oyo state is ranked second to the last ahead of Osun state. The unenviable position Oyo state finds itself in the WAEC ranking does not come at a surprise to many of us, it only serves as confirmation of what we have been saying all the while. In the days of Lam Adesina,…
Native Brazilians arrest monkeys with what is called Cumbuca. They make a hole in a gourd that is big enough to accommodate the hand of a monkey. The gourd is then affixed to the ground of the place monkeys infest. Placed inside the gourd is usually a banana for the attraction of the monkey. The monkey then hops down the tree and aims to grab the banana. Expectedly, the monkey will foolishly hold on tight to the banana, his hand closed. With this, the monkey cannot take the banana out and will not leave his place of imprisonment. He will…
The Chairman of the Oyo state Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC, Aare Isiaka Olaguju have been going from one Media platform to the other, promising free, fair and transparent Local Government Election on 27th of this month. He has equally met with different stakeholder, assuring them of the Electoral Bodies’ readiness to ascert Its Independence and deliver a credible election. He took similar steps in 2021. Whether the Senior Advocate of Nigeria will deliver on the promises this time around is another kettle of fish. On the other hand, the Governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde was in Ido Local Government…
Governor Seyi Makinde was in Ido town, headquarters of the Ido Local Government to campaign for himself today. Local Government Election have been slated for April 27 of this year and the Governor is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that he is declared winner by OYSIEC. Do I sound confusing? Definitely not. Governor Makinde is the contestant for the position of Local Government Chairman in the 33 Local Governments in Oyo state. Reason? The Governor doubles as the State’s Chief Executive as well as the de facto Chairman of the 33 Local Governments while the 33 clowns parading themselves…
Whether real or imagined, none of the metonyms for “Lagos boy” is complimentary. The “Lagos boy” moniker once came up in the late 1980s. Commodore Olabode George, then Military Governor of Ondo State, had just been removed from office after spending two years. The African Concord magazine then did a post-mortem of his turbulent rule. Newly purchased boats for the coastal part of the state were alleged to be second-hand. By then, for analysts writing about the George years, rigor-mortis hadn’t set on another uproarious component of his time in office. It was his wife, Feyi George’s “Queendom.” So she…
Makinde’s Penchant For Sad Theatrics Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state is one strange individual. Apart from his love for double speak, his penchant for making costly jokes from extremely terrible situations is legendary. On Saturday , 13th April, 2024, he was in Ogbomosho to attend the burial ceremony of the late mother of the former Minister for Youths and Sports, Sunday Dare. Governor Makinde made sure the occassion did not go without him making some funny remarks, some, hilarious and some, unfortunate. It is funny and petty that the Governor, while trying to make a point about the need…
Makinde’s Acquisitions Of Public Spaces For The Privileged. It is the Law in Nigeria. Governments, be it Federal or the state can acquire any land when there is need for it. However, a caveat is attached to the power of Government to proceed on such acquisitions. The acquired space must be put to use for public good. Now, when you look at the “phrase public good”, it suggests that the acquired space must be put to use by Government in the interest of the general public regardless of status. Let us now make a critical analysis of what projects of…
Local Governments in Oyo state have gone comatose under the suffocating grips of Governor Seyi Makinde. The selected errand boys impersonating as “local Government Chairmen* are mitigated failures and they can’t help it. He who pays the piper will surely dictate his choice tunes. Governor Makinde in 2021 employed every means possible, including illegal dissolution of validly elected Chairmen, disobedience of court orders and violence to put them in the local Governments as Chairmen. The people of Ibarapa East and Ido Local Governments will not forget in a hurry, the violence visited on them by Governor Makinde in 2021. I…
In the 19th century and even before, Bobriskys were lynched like common criminals. Their sin was their considered unusual sexuality. Until then, homosexual activities were classified as “unnatural crime against nature” while sodomy got punished with, sometimes death. In comparison, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, famously known as Bobrisky, has suffered one of the mildest fates. Between 1877 and 1950, over 4000 of such lynching occurred. As recent as April 2017, Kenne McFadden, a black transgender woman who didn’t have experience of swimming, got drowned when she was pushed into the San Antonio River in Texas on account of her “nauseating” sexuality.…