By Dele Sobowale “Were it left to me whether to have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter” – Thomas Jefferson, US President, 1743-1826. All Nigerians alive today and old enough to be conscious of our predicament as a nation are beginning to […]

By Dele Sobowale “A political party deserves the approbation of [Nigerians] only as it represents the ideals, the aspirations and the hopes of [Nigerians]. If it is anything else, it is merely a conspiracy to seize power” – US President Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, November 7, 1956. Is there a political party in Nigeria today called […]

In many ways, each of them is worthy of consideration by the Yoruba people. But, each time I meet a Yoruba person, female, male, young or old, and the question is asked: What do you think the Yoruba people gained from being in APC?, the answer invariably is: “Nothing”.

By Dele Sobowale “You reap what you sow.” A foreigner just arriving in Nigeria, and learning about the six zones of our political system, must assume that Yorubaland is the second most favoured zone under the All Progressives Congress, APC. A casual glance at the list of occupants of elected and appointed officials would seem to […]

By Dele Sobowale “There are two forces in the world; the sword and the pen. In the end, the pen will overcome the sword” -Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821. That was true, and is still a fact, of the civilised world. But, this is Africa, the Dark Continent; and this is Nigeria, the biggest of all dark races on […]