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.
‘June 12′ on June 12
By Yinka Odumakin IF the leadership of the APC cared about the image of their party or have sufficient reflective capacity, they should have delayed the disqualification of Mr. Godwin Obaseki to June 13. My very good friend Azu Oshimili of Inspiration FM put a call to me on June 12 for a recorded interview. […]
June 12: Unfinished business
By Yinka Odumakin THERE are some books you didn’t read and so feel you never passed through the world; so also are some persons you failed to meet. And that is why I will always cherish that evening at the official residence of Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi as the Managing Director of Daily Times in 1990. […]
This Colonel Umar
By Yinka Odumakin IT is just occurring to me that children born around 1993 are now 27 years old and may not have full ideas of who did what during the nullification of the brightest chance to make a nation out of dysfunctional Nigeria. At a time when some officers were swearing that Aare MKO […]
The withering of Nigerian state
By Yinka Odumakin THERE was a Professor who taught Spring in a classroom all his life and one day came out to see what he was teaching out of the walls. Alas, he could not recognize it and said it must be some disorder in nature. It is only such Professor that would look at […]
Amaechi is so cold about it
By Yinka Odumakin WHEN Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi appeared before the Senate in 2015 to be screened for two portfolios, he submitted an interesting CV. He was a graduate of English but with his only working experience being at Palmo Clinic in Port Harcourt. It was not that because literature deals with all disciplines but for […]
No, Governor Wike !
By Yinka Odumakin TOTALITARIAN and arbitrary rule became part of the fight against COVID-19 on Saturday with lawyer-Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State pulling down hotels in the state. In a clear military-style, an order was issued on Saturday and the governor was personally on duty to supervise the demolition of two hotels in Rivers […]
In search of Nigeria’s rescuers
By Yinka Odumakin IF heavens did not raise men and women across Nigeria who will rise like one man to do what is necessary to rescue the sinking ship of this country, we can as well be composing the funeral oration of a country with a great potential that never manifested. I have had sleepless […]
Coronavirus and our fault lines
By Yinka Odumakin IT is not difficult for anyone who has done a diligent study of Nigeria to come to the immutable conclusion that what would kill the “impossible country” would not come from the fire of the enemy at the frontline but from the array of its fault lines. Fault lines are divisive or […]
Saint Kyari: A non-flattering tribute
By Yinka Odumakin I PRAYED that Allah grants repose to the soul of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari who died of COVID-19 complications last Friday. May He also comfort the family he has left behind. I knew Kyari in 2011 when I worked with Major General Muhammadu Buhari and he […]
The more things ‘change’ in Nigeria…
By Yinka Odumakin THE Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation went up in flames lately as those distributing cash around markets to unknown people have done a great job that is so difficult to account for. The fire chose the moment of the epic COVID-19 distraction and those in government know us well that […]
