Ortom and his 23 cars’ ‘bonus’, by Dele Sobowale
“As I talk to you, after I left office, vehicles that were given to me legitimately by government, this government went and seized them in a manner that was not befitting” – Former Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State Last week, former Governor Donald Duke of Cross River declared that military rule was, in many […]
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 […]
When a book threatened the author’s life, by Dele Sobowale
“If you hope to live a few years, buy shares. If for thirty years; plant a tree. If forever, write a book” – Japanese words of wisdom. To this I would like to add: “or have a book written about you.” One of the tragedies of African history can be traced to the fact that […]
