Skits literally crack ribs with laughter. The line separating fact from fiction or faction (fact and fiction) in skits is paper-thin. An instance was a skit cobbled together in Addis Ababa on January 11, 1976 at an OAU Extraordinary Session on Angola. This high-octane skit was documented by General Joe Nanven Garba in his Diplomatic Soldiering (1987). Garba was a Langtang-born Federal Commissioner for External Affairs under Murtala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo. Self-titled ‘Field Marshal’ Idi Amin Dada, the notorious Ugandan despot, was then the OAU chairman. It was at that conference that General Muhammed delivered his famous and powerful…
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There will be a serious issue with local Farmers in Oyo state very soon but I will come to that later. I was guest on some local Radio stations in Ibadan recently and the experience is revealing and thought provoking. I had the privilege of featuring on another station today to discuss issues bothering on the State of the Nation. We discussed issues and problems facing our Nation and the responsibilities of Governments at all levels with a view to also suggesting solutions. I must credit the press, most especially, on Air personalities within Ibadan for the fresh zeal to…
The piece titled ” A Harrowing Trip To Eruwa” has elicited diverse response. There are those who felt the piece was a direct confrontation to the Speaker, Oyo state House of Assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin. Some die hard partisan politicians felt it was a sponsored job which is meant to discredit the PDP in favour of the APC. Interestingly, many of our people in Ibarapa embraced the write up as a timely intervention and many also volunteered information which I must confirm were out of my personal knowledge before I wrote the piece. I must put it on record that my…
Undoubtedly, the political matrimony between President Bola Tinubu and Northern Nigeria is at Talaq stage. Talaq is the Islamic unilateral repudiation of a marital union. There are no sobs, no wails. No dabbing of the face with a handkerchief. But, the dusts provoked by the matrimonial dislocation hang notoriously in the sky. Even bystanders miles away can see them. The marriage is only 15 months old but the couple’s patience for each other is rope-thin. As our elders say, right in the presence of the kolanut seller, irreverent worms slide inside his pods. A matrimony celebrated with pomp and ceremony…
When a Yoruba man gets a job in the Civil service, regardless of whether it is at the Local Government, state or the Federal level, there is a prayer commonly prayed for such person: ” oko, Oba, ati ada Oba ko ni sa e lese”. Oko in Yoruba translates as a hoe and Ada means a cutlass. You will wonder the correlation between this farm instruments and the civil service. In Yoruba Land, Oko Oba and Ada Oba are symbolically used in prayer for someone in the civil service because this are farm instruments that could inflict wounds on the…
The stupidest thing I have read or heard in 2024 is that the North is fighting President Bola Tinubu because they do not want a Southern President. That is as stupid as a man believing that his own mother is a witch who wants to kill him. If your mother wanted to kill you, you would not have survived infancy. Killing a child is the easiest thing a mother can do undetected if that were her goal. Preventing Bola Tinubu from becoming President is the easiest thing Arewa could have done if that were her goal. The Bola Tinubu Presidency…
The piece titled ” Prophet Beelzebub’s Animus And The Oyo Project” by Sulaimon Olanrewaju afforded me the opportunity to see through the mind of the official spokesperson of Governor Makinde. For the benefits of non Christian readers and those who might not be familiar with the Holy Bible, Beelzebub is a Demonic Lord, Prince of Darkness, Fallen Angel who fell from the Grace of God as a result of his refusal to bow to Adam, the first Man made by God. Beelzebub was coursed by God as a result of that disobedience. In short, Beelzebub is Satan Himself. Interestingly, Sulaimon…
I read the rejoinder by Governor Makinde’s Chief Press Secretary, Sulaimon Olanrewaju where he re-echoed the unforced error committed by the Chairman of Saki West in a viral video. Sulaimon Olanrewaju was reacting to a story by the Oyo state APC. The Chairman of Saki West had told some youths within his Local Government that he is serving the Governor of Oyo state and Sulaimon just reinforced that when he admitted that Local Government Chairmen in Oyo state pledged their loyalty to the Governor of Oyo state during an intriguing ” closed door” meeting where the 33 Local Government Chairmen…
It is no longer news that Oyo state Local Government Chairmen have decided to opt out of the Association of Local Governments in Nigeria, (ALGON). It is also not news that the reasons behind their actions are as a result of Governor Seyi Makinde’s disapproval of the judgment of the Supreme Court which granted Financial Autonomy for the 774 Local Governments in Nigeria. Governor Makinde’s position against independence of Local Governments in Nigeria is public knowledge even before he won a second term in office. He has hinged his antagonism to the current system which recognizes Local Governments as third…
I read the piece by one Fola Adeyanju titled ” Ladoja’s Acceptance To Wear Beaded Crown: A Victory Song Over Makinde’s Nay Sayers and I thought why would Governor Makinde allow the high office he presently occupies to be dragged by neophytes and mediocres? Fola Adeyanju is another busy body who will not allow the bereaved to wail but will choose to wail louder and roll on the floor. High Chief Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, the Otun Olubadan of Ibadan Land granted an interview on Fresh FM yesterday,where he did told the World that for reasons, only the sensible minds could…