In a statement signed by its Chairman of Council, Chief Tola Adeniyi, the Alliance said Sunday Igboho remains an undisputed hero of the Yoruba people today, and that his actions are in accordance with the self-determination clause in the United Nations Charter.
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Egbon Tola Adeniyi and I have come a long way. I have been exposed to his writings since the 1970s and he has been part of the shaping of my intellect since then. His writings, in flawless prose, were and are still a delight to me and his numerous readers.
The great thing about being Chairman of an event such as this is that you need not say anything other than “welcome, let’s begin”, and to declare it closed at the end. This is more so because we have a book reviewer.
The body in a statement by its Convener, Chief Told Adeniyi, said the outcome of the police investigation and the narrative of the cause of the mayhem are miles apart
Could such moments be occasions for jocundity or cheer? Could moments when once powerful and influential individuals are being disgraced and humiliated because of alleged misdemeanours be of celebration and chest beating?
All powers belong to Olodumare, the Almighty Adiitu, and the Supreme Essence known by several million names and certainly with…
I was however dumbfounded on that occasion when some of the greatest of the greatest [please pardon the student unionism cliché] Nigerians, the eminent of the eminent were all crying “If THEY will allow” and you wonder what Nigeria has been turned into. And I asked myself “who the hell are these THEY that had all the powers to stop what most enlightened minds in Nigeria had always clamoured for?
I realised that writing on the challenges of visionary leaders is not likely to sit well in the minds of many readers at this point in time. It is serious suffering and provoked lamentations that have taken centre stage in the personal experience of virtually all Nigerians. Before I left Akure and Ekiti about two weeks ago petrol was selling at 125 Naira per litre. On my way back to Ibadan my friend Professor Oluwole Osonubi took me to a Gas station where our drivers spent close to 2 hours to scrape some litres of petrol at 130 Naira per litre
I was at the Church service for the funeral of my former boss Mr Kola Bamgbelu’s father and had my nostrils confronted by the heavily perfumed, gaily dressed women whose well packaged and padded buttocks were bulging through the pews they sat on
Whenever you open the pages of any World History book, what stare you in the face are horrible stories of early homicides, the unending wars in the city states of Sparta, Athens, Rome, Carthage, Thermopylae, Ijaye, Owu, Ishamuro, Dahomey and Benin among several others
The issue here is not about similarity in names or anything to do with the princely background of the two Adeniyis. The issue has to do with what some Nigerians have come to regard as the frequency of judgments which do not appear to be in consonance with the mood of the nation. But I ask, are judgments supposed to reflect the mood of the nation?
A mind according to Wikipedia which I am quoting copiously in this column “is the set of cognitive faculties that enables consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, and memory—a characteristic of humans, but which also may apply to other life forms
Unless miracles happen or mankind puts on its most creative cap and wobble through the maze of the man made calamities resulting from senseless global wars, the dwindling oil prices and the self-induced economic destruction of virtually all countries, the world would be left crying pitifully on its knees throughout 2016
Two years ago I announced on the pages of the City People Magazine that I was in love with Dame Patience Jonathan. There were no pretences about my declaration. I followed it up with reasons for my falling in love. It was the aftermath of her public declaration that she was indeed ill and that she almost passed out on a number of occasions
Yet the country is at war! For years the pen soldiers who were throwing their pen daggers at Nigeria have had a field day. It was a one sided battle. The warriors were fighting and conquering and plundering while their opponent Madam Nigeria was sleeping and snoring. In the one sided war, Nigeria had her eyes plucked out, her dull brain pulled out, her limbs shackled, and all of her soldiers were taken captive
The word love as it is used by the so-called lovers is most intricate and intriguing. A word that is…
Prior to the recent national elections, Nigeria was on a life support. And she is still on a life support but with a dedicated doctor standing by. Nigeria cannot now afford a political crisis or flexing of muscles by political gladiators. Nigeria got to this sorry state through the activities of politicians in military uniform and in agbada. And quite frankly, expectations were high that with the recent elections, the era of political jobbery was gone
As Nigerians celebrate Nigeria’s so-called Democracy Day this May 29, and the man of the hour takes over the baton from Jonathan, I will be celebrating Ago-Iwoye the city that nurtured me from cradle to adolescence, hence this piece in commemoration of my official 70th birthday is dedicated to Olodumare, my incomparable parents and the city of my birth
The group that virtually emptied our national treasury and feared that the coming of President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, may hand over to them long jail sentences in addition to coughing up their ill gotten wealth, would do everything humanly possible to eliminate whatever stood in their way of continued lavish enjoyment and the prison
Most of the so-called media managers had no clue whatsoever about what media management was all about. In fact the simple rudiments of communication were lost on most of them. Quite a number of those who were paid huge sums of money to launder the image of their employers hardly understood what constituted image talk less of what constituted laundering