How Niger Delta was underdeveloped by its leaders, by Dele Sobowale
“Niger Delta got $160bn in 27 yrs, yet remains underdeveloped – Aig-Imoukhuede” – VANGUARD, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026. “Every country has the government it deserves” – Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821. Thank God for Nigerians like Aig-Imoukhuede who occasionally seizes the opportunity to tell Nigerians the truth we hate to hear. He was the Keynote Address Speaker […]
US bombing Sokoto: FG on the horns of dilemma, by Dele Sobowale
“I am beginning to wonder how many fools it takes to make the term ‘My Fellow citizens‘” – Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850 in LOST ILLUSIONS. President Tinubu enjoys my fullest sympathies right now. The Christmas Day bombing carried out by American forces, which was envisioned as a step in the right direction, has unleashed more problems […]
PDP House built by Ekwueme demolished by Obasanjo, by Dele Sobowale
Two bald men fighting over a [toothless] comb.” Reading that Alhaji Turaki and Sule Lamido were fighting over who would be Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to me, was the funniest joke of the year. It sounded like a tragic story of two elderly women laying claim to a baby during the World […]
PA DOMINGO AMIDU (1915-1998): Baba Ite, Founder, Waka Club 1945, by Dele Sobowale
“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ p 183. Nigerian clubs are modern versions of taverns in Great Britain long before the eighteenth century – places men, and occasionally some […]
I stand by President Tinubu against foreign Intervention (2), by Dele Sobowale
“Allow an untenable situation to persist for a long time; and, suddenly, there are no good options left” – Arthur Burns, Chairman, US Federal Reserve Bank, 1987 Contrary to my expectations of an avalanche of negative reactions to the first part of this article, there were very few; and the majority admitted that most Nigerians, now […]
I stand by President Tinubu against foreign Intervention, by Dele Sobowale
“Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past” – US President Harry Truman, 1884-1972. President Harry Truman became President when Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, died. Truman inherited the Second World War, WWII; and ended it in a manner that still shocks the world today. He ordered two atomic bombs to […]
