Last night, I saw the video of an Ibadan based Fuji Musician whose son is also a member of the Oyo state House of Assembly. In the video, the Fuji Musician, who was also appointed by Governor Makinde as SA on kinni kan, I wouldn’t remember the exact portfolio assigned to the gentleman but I think it has to do with Culture, the fellow was boasting about how both himself and his son have been drawing salaries from Government. The gentleman was making the statement to show off and establish superiority over some colleagues. Fuji Musicians and superiority fights are…
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If the likes of Awolowo, Bola Ige, Lam Adesina and other notable Progressives who dedicated their lives and times to good governance through progressive ideas and ideals were to be alive today, they must have distanced themselves from and condemned, in very strong terms, the selfish and wicked principles of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Even in their graves, this great men who sacrificed their convenience, freedom and in many instances, happiness to build and sustain what we see and refer to as Democratic principles must be shifting, rolling and shuddering in their graves any time they look back and see…
On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretarybird, has remained with Nigeria ever since. It is a story of the affinity between sex and corruption. Son of Alake of Egbaland and a no-nonsense judge, Justice Adetokunbo Ademola, then of the Lagos Santa Anna Magistrate Court, presided over the matter. After the wotowoto of the prosecution and defence, Ademola sentenced a female welfare officer, Ayodele Potts-Johnson, to six months imprisonment, without an option of fine. Potts-Johnson’s crime was demanding and collecting bribes of the sums of #5.30s and 25s.2d. from two prostitutes,…
One by one, three Nigerian former military rulers, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, arrived at Babangida’s Hilltop Mansion in Minna, Niger State, last Sunday. So did former National Security Adviser (NSA), General Aliyu Gusau. The Minna meeting had every trapping of African witches assembling at the coven. Like owls, a pervasive symbol of African witchcraft, did they fly to and perch on their Minna assembly nest at nocturne? Yoruba attribute the kind of powers this trio had/have to witches. They eat the head from the arm and masticate the heart from the liver. In any case, age…
By 7.30pm tonight, it will be exactly the 37th posthumous anniversary of the killing of Jamaican reggae music lord, Winston Hubert MclnTosh, popularly known as Peter Tosh. Born October 11, 1944, if he were alive, Peter would be 80 years old next month. Thirty seven years ago, reggae music and indeed the world, lost Tosh, the iconic maestro, poet, philosopher and a staunch defender of African rights. Three gunmen, led by Dennis “Leppo” Lobban, one of Tosh’s ‘boys’ who he sustained as part of the communal Rastafarian injunction of brotherly co-existence, had stormed his house at Barbican Road residence, St…
Sigidi nsere ete, o ni ki won gbe Oun rodo loo we. When the effigy wants to perish, it will insist on being taken to the river for a bath. An effigy is made of mud. It is an object that, though, has hands and legs, but it is motionless. If the effigy now insists on having a swim in the river, isn’t that a perilous thought? Governor Seyi Makinde’s presidential ambition is no longer a rumor. Naturally, as a citizen of Nigeria who also possesses prerequisite qualifications, I agree that he has committed no crimes through his aspiration to…
I listened to a live Radio program on a leading local Radio station based in Ibadan this morning and I was glad I did. Some of us who have been dedicated to the duty of speaking truth to the happenings in Oyo state have been given names and asked questions about what special interest we have that is beyond that of the ordinary citizen of the state. We have been asked severally, if we have personal grudges against the Governor of the state or if we were just playing politics. I can understand most friends, who, out of genuine love…
No doubt, photographs evoke metaphors, imageries and diverse interpretations. Imagery was evoked in my mind as I read President Bola Tinubu’s remarks during his recent adventure to China. He spoke while addressing Nigerians living in that country. “Nigeria is going through reforms, and we are taking very bold and unprecedented decisions. For example, you might have been hearing from home in the last few days about fuel prices. But, can we help it?” the president said cavalierly like a cruel surgeon about to dissect a patient to whom he had neither empathy nor any iota of feeling. We had thought…
When a married man is unable to perform his duties on ” za oza room”, he’s deemed to be an Okobo, the impotent,in Yoruba Land. There is an interesting analogy about the Okobo. It goes like this, the Okobo, instead of doing the needful with his newly wedded bride, will choose to thread needles. ” Ohun a ni ki okobo bo, ko le boo, igba abere lo nbo lookun”. I saw a piece which centred on Governor Seyi Makinde’s recent News Letter. The title of the piece in itself aroused curiosities but I must admit that I didn’t have the…
Words, surely have tastes. No wonder when someone made a statement which is considered sour or unfitting of them, people wonder if they chewed the words before spewing them. The call for full Legislative Autonomy by the Nigerian Speakers Forum, as amplified by its Chairman and Speaker of the Oyo state House of Assembly is ridiculous to say the least. I have my issues with the Forum in general because of their willing submission to manipulations by the state Governors. They have been docile and powerless all this while, toeing whichever path their Governors chose, even if such a path…