“Life is one long process of getting tired” – Samuel Butler, 1835-1902. The famous English writer lived 67 years and spent about ten of those suffering from very painful gout. I was 32 when his observation came to my attention; and it was immediately included in my collection of quotations. For someone who had known only […]

“Universities across the world rely not only on tuition fees and government/private subvention but also on sustainable financial vehicles such as endowments. An endowment fund ensures financial stability provides long term support for academic excellence, and strengthens a university’s competitiveness. Professor Lawrence I Ezemonye, Vice Chancellor, Igbinedion University, Okada. “Numerous are the streams that lead […]

“In all matters, one must consider the end” – Jean De La Fontaine, 1621-1695. “A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies”– Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900. Every active and deliberately controversial politician in a deadly political environment has two lives to protect – his real life and his political life. Occasionally, the two lives […]

“It takes twenty years [or more] to make a REPUTATION and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that; you will do things differently”- Warren Buffett, 2022. “To murder one’s reputation is a kind of suicide; a detestable and odious vice”-  Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, in TOM JONES. Former Governor of Ekiti State and Federal […]

“The most moral man is not the one who restrains from evil, but he who does good” – Prof. Emevwo Biakolo, 1991, in The Guardian, 1991, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 164. Most Nigerians who have read quotations from the VBQ might be living under the impression that all the entries were from foreign lands […]

“A political party deserves the approbation of the American people only as it represents the ideals, the aspirations and hopes of Americans. If it is anything else, it is merely a conspiracy to seize power” – US President Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969. I strongly believe that a Nigerian political party deserves to be called one only if […]

“God could not be everywhere and, therefore, he made mothers” – Jewish proverb.

Sir (Chief) Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion,…

“Silence is golden when you can’t think of an [intelligent] answer” – Mohammed Ali, 1942-2016.   Buhari’s death has exposed more horrors about the real attitude of those who held the highest posts in his government – which was largely a failure based on lies and hypocrisy. Last week, my column addressed Garba Shehu’s confession that he […]

“Every government is run by liars; and nothing they say should be believed…” -I. F. Stone, 1907-1989. I was halfway through with the article intended for this week when two things happened. Former President Buhari, 1943-2025, passed on in a London Hospital; where he undoubtedly had gone to save his life. Unfortunately, the man might have […]

I inherited a country near bankruptcy – President Tinubu at Saint Lucia, July 3, 2025. It must have been divine coincidence. One of Buhari’s former Senior Special Assistants launched his book a day before – undoubtedly full of half-truths and plain lies about the wonders performed by the former President. Nobody expects an ex-official, who spent […]