Candid Notes

She ‘married’ her best friend’s dad!

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.
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Memo to Senate Committee on Constitution (4)

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)

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)

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)

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 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.