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.
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 […]
Extreme poverty deadlier than Coronavirus
By Yinka Odumakin EXTREME poverty is now showing us that it is worse than Coronavirus in Nigeria the global secretariat of poverty. The first thing the Federal Government did when it imposed lockdown on some areas in the country was to send troops out for enforcement as it knew that the vulnerable people it leads […]
Religion worse than Coronavirus
By Yinka Odumakin NIGERIANS are deeply God-believing people and the country would have been one of the best places to live in on earth if this were undergirded by a well-planned and organised society. I saw this brilliant young girl on Channels TV shortly after the Lagos State put a ban on the gathering of […]
Olusegun Obasanjo (2)
By Yinka Odumakin …Continued from last week I DO know and appreciate that many Nigerians have made and are making sacrifices for this country. But let me, as an individual who has made some sacrifice for Nigeria and who will make more if required for the unity, equity, development and progress of Nigeria, say here and […]
We have a little window to avert self-determination
By Olusegun Obasanjo WHEN former President Olusegun Obasanjo spoke at the first memorial of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Founder, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun in February, he dropped heavy bombshells that the Presidency has not responded to till date, but which won’t go away. I bring readers of this column excerpts from that wonderful speech. LET […]
Monologues as dialogues in a disunited Nigeria
‘THE Great Debate For National Unity: Federal Character, Restructuring and Rotation of Presidential Powers in Nigeria” put together by Igbo Leadership Development Foundation at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja last Thursday was designed as a dialogue among representatives of ethnic nationalities in the country, but it tuned out a session of monologues and a showcase of […]
Memo to Senate Committee on Constitution (4)
By Yinka Odumakin WE have spent the last three weeks examining the major contentious issues in our Constitution and recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. I have read the el-Rufai committee’s reports and its recommendations are similar in so many respects. The 2014 reports have over 600 recommendations which were adopted unanimously as the ballot […]
Memo to Senate Committee on Constitution (3)
By Yinka Odumakin Constitution: A CRITICAL look at the political structures in Nigeria today shows a lot of anomalies and the 2014 National Conference did a lot to bring some sanity. The recommendations are quite far-reaching to change the abnormal that has become our new normal: 5.12 Political Restructuring And Forms of Government FEDERALISM: Conference […]
Memo to Senate Committee on Constitution (2)
Revenue: I STARTED this series last week with a plea to the Constitution Review Committee to consider the 2014 National Conference reports as the solutions to the myriad of problems confronting Nigeria are contained therein. We have made some progress between last week and now as the committee has openly declared that it would look […]
Memo to Senate Committee on Constitution (1)
By Yinka Odumakin Senate: SHORTLY after General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the June 12, 1993, presidential election, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi did a piece in which he used the disaster clock at the UN to warn about the dire situation the unjust diktat had put Nigeria. The clock is a measuring device for imminent explosion in a […]
The snoring church wakes up?
THE significance of Nigerian father of faith, Pastor E. A. Adeboye on spiritual Aluta last Sunday should not be lost on us and “somebody” should “shout Halleluyah” that it had taken Boko Haram to wake up the snoring church in Nigeria.
