She ‘married’ her best friend’s dad!
OPEN marriages work when one partner, usually the wife, turns a blind eye to her husband’s shenanigans. In most cases, the husband is usually careful not to push his luck by always flaunting his trophies. In a few cases, however, wives have been known to forgive the humiliation of a serial adulterer all in the name of love and a sad excuse of hanging on to the marriage.
Season of mean men
By Yinka Odumakin HUMANITY has never been in want of depraved and very mean humans who are so drained of its essential ingredients. One of the most inconsiderate statements ever made in history was the phrase “let them eat cake” first attributed to Marie Antoinette in 1789, supposedly having been uttered during one of the […]
Still on Nigeria’s clash of civilisations
By Yinka Odumakin This country has witnessed raw deals that Hisbah is capable of meting in violent violation of the Constitution and the further enforcement of anarchy the zealots are capable of rolling out as outlaws THE Nigeria Broadcast Commision is currently tongue-tied over a letter wrirten by the Sharia Board in Kano (Hisbah) to […]
This ‘non-negotiable unity’
By Yinka Odumakin MAY God bless the soul of the late Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, a very deep and learned man. Hardly anyone ever sat with him without something to take away. When he had just 48 hours more to live, he phoned to indicate that he wanted to see me. I was in Ibadan that […]
Scorpions and frogs of Nigeria
By Yinka Odumakin I WAS talking of how comprehensive incompetence of some of our compatriots who lack ability to lead is doing much damage to this country, and may sentence it to death if we don’t reset the country quickly. The wonder in the piece was the likely dangers we face with those who went to […]
Comprehensive incompetence killing Nigeria
By Yinka Odumakin I HAVE a brother that is always warning every now and then that one should always be wary of mingling with incompetent people as they can cost you everything. Incompetence can be defined simply as lack of ability. This deficiency has led to disastrous consequences for Nigeria, especially as those who lack […]
The foodlums they call hoodlums
By Yinka Odumakin I will never forget Mrs Sutton at Oduduwa College, Ile -Ife where she dropped that unforgettable one in a literature class: no one is born inherently bad but the society produces its own characters. The Singaporean lady was a delight to listen to. That is the message the Nigerian, largely intellectually- challenged […]
Black Tuesday and this impossible country
By Yinka Odumakin The Punch newspaper had an interview with me on January 12, 2019 on the “occupy Nigeria “ movement that we held for five days in January 2012. It was an opportunity to recall details of events of the five days that shook Nigeria to its foundation and make some forecasts which had […]
#ENDSARS: Quarter-To-Midnight In Nigeria
By Yinka Odumakin The cerebral Professor of Political Science, Bolajji Akinyemi, did something beautiful about the UN disaster clock during the June 12 political crisis in 1993. He talked about the measuring rod of the temperature of a disaster-prone country. The clock is put at a quarter-to-midnight when the country is fully at the edge. […]
Zamfara and Nigeria at crossroads
By Yinka Odumakin The great political philosopher and polemicist ,Leon Trotsky, once talked of a professor of spring who was teaching the subject in a classroom for years. He came out one day and was face-to-face with spring, but he denied it, saying it must be some disorder in nature. So, it is with Nigeria […]
Zamfara and Nigeria at crossroads
By Yinka Odumakin The great political philosopher and polemicist ,Leon Trotsky, once talked of a professor of spring who was teaching the subject in a classroom for years.He came out one day and was face-to-face with spring, but he denied it, saying it must be some disorder in nature. So, it is with Nigeria that […]
Edo election and our unconstitutional players
By Yinka Odumakin The September 19 Edo gubernatorial polls was not just about electing a governor but more of stopping a major affliction that has put democratic order under siege in our county: the rule of godfathers . When I called my brother and friend who was the symbol of that struggle three days after […]
Offa robbery and the aftermath
By Yinka Odumakin THE Offa robbery of 2018 and the irresponsible way Nigeria has handled the aftermath is one more good reason why those criticising former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka that Nigeria is tottering towards state failure should shut their traps. One of the key symptoms of a failed state […]
Constitutional negotiation we need
By Yinka Odumakin IT must be fully clear to the Senate now that the whole idea of leaving leprosy to deal with eczema which it has concentrated on in the last 20 years is not very popular with Nigerians. A profound initiative by a former president and his colleagues in calling leaders of socio-cultural groups […]
Matawale brings the North we want
By Yinka Odumakin UNTIL the late intervention of reasonable lawyers from the North, some fellows were going to break the Nigerian Bar Association into two for responding positively to the pressure of Open Bar Initiative to disinvite Governor Nasir El-Rufai to the recent Bar Conference. Their argument was that a man who operates on the […]
Adieu, Walter Carrington
By Yinka Odumakin A FORTNIGHT after celebrating his 90th birthday, former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Walter Carrrington, peacefully exited this world on August 11, 2020. His Nigerian wife, Arese, said in a family statement: “It is with a heavy and broken heart but with gratitude to God for his life of selfless humanity that I […]
