Ladi Adebutu and Iyabo Obasanjo can deliver Ogun(2), by Dele Sobowale
“But, along those roads, I learned that true wealth is not stored in vaults, but, in values, integrity, humility, service and faith” – Chief Kesington Adebukunola Adebutu, KJW, OON, CON, CFR, GCON Those words in his auto biography, LEGACY IN MOTION: THE QUIET POWER OF A NIGERIAN ICON, induced me to finish reading the book […]
Truth at last about Buharinomics from Tinubu, by Dele Sobowale
I inherited a country near bankruptcy – President Tinubu at Saint Lucia, July 3, 2025. It must have been divine coincidence. One of Buhari’s former Senior Special Assistants launched his book a day before – undoubtedly full of half-truths and plain lies about the wonders performed by the former President. Nobody expects an ex-official, who spent […]
PRESIDENCY 2027: If not Tinubu who else? By Dele Sobowale
“You can’t beat something with nothing” – American baseball team coach after his team lost 17 games in a row. Since governance has been suspended for active politicking in Nigeria until May 2027, we might as well stop deceiving ourselves and squarely face the issue of selection of our President from 2027 to 2031. In […]
Achebe/Awo war: A plea for sanity –2
“I must practice moderation and say that peace is better than the finest war in the world”, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 1762-1796. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 183).
Achebe/Awo war: A plea for sanity –1
I wept for Nigeria when the excerpts of Chinua Achebe’s MEMOIRS, were published in Nigeria. I instinctively knew that the season of media and social lynch-mobs had started. It is one of the inevitable, but unintended consequences of that book. Wounds which were gradually healing might once again be re-opened depending on how we handle the intellectual bomb handed to us. It is my strong belief that we should defuse it; for, if we fail, the results will be disastrous beyond our wildest nightmares.
