State police: Idea whose time has come
The national conference has just entered its most critical stage. This is when all the reports, serious and unserious, minority and majority, submitted by...
Between Buhari and AIT: Will the morning tell the day?
Last week was one of those unpredictable weeks. You wake up to face the day and you don’t know how and what the day...
This blame-game is becoming boring
It was Laurence Peter who once said that democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get...
Come on! Who set this bush on fire?
On February 27, 1966, the venerable Allah-De (Alade Odunewu), Nigeria’s high priest of quality journalism, wrote a piece in the Sunday Times with the...
There is something Obasanjo and Jonathan are not telling us
Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired General and former president of Nigeria, is not yet through with President Goodluck Jonathan. He is still spitting fire. It...
Politicians don’t speak; they abuse
In a tiny book, Politics Companion, there is the story of an American satirist, Ambrose Bierce, who wrote an incomparable book called The Devil’s...
Matters miscellaneous: Football, Ebola and politics
In a sudden twist of events: Nigeria is declared free of the Ebola Virus Disease; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, finally...
Excuses, blame game and the rest of us
Sooner than we assume, the APC will exhaust its bags of excuses. The blame game currently choking us to suffocation will also end. When...
Short of ideas? Go Afghanistan
Going Afghanistan is a journalism jargon made popular by the celebrated columnist, the late Dele Giwa. It’s a safer way to escape the boredom...
For Azu, just like the pine tree, it is not yet over
His latest baby is a magazine called The Interview. The content is not all about torturing questions and regrettable answers. It offers more than...
