Browsing: Femi Adesina

The President notices everything, even the seemingly insignificant. One day, I was in a Yoruba native dress, with a cap, which was rather big for my head, product of a tailor who was too generous with his fabric. When the President saw me, he said: “Adesina, this cap is too big.”

An official of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) had called him to say our sister, Foluke, a Professor of Dramatic Arts, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, had been involved in an accident along the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. Of the four people in the car, two were certified dead

The then Lieutenant Colonel Buhari had been described thus in a confidential report by H.W. Kulkam, the Chief Instructor of the College: “Tall, slim, and well-turned out, Buhari is a quiet, unassuming and honest individual.”

Adesina said the subsequent attribution of the supposedly “low number” of female ministerial nominees to President Buhari’s alleged shyness around women is therefore baseless and a figment of the imagination of the said Samani, who was falsely described as the Senior Special Assistant (Political Matters) to the President