NYSC kidnap as metaphor for decline into beastiality, by Dele Sobowale
“NYSC kidnap: N950m ransom throws families into panic” – News Report, October 3, 2026. For the parents of 19 graduates traveling from Ibadan, Oyo State to Owerri, Imo State, there is nothing happy about the month of October. President Tinubu’s Independence Day address to the nation deliberately excluded insecurity among the matters on his national […]
Buhari and the South
“You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari, he said he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we have done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.” Jim Yong Kim, World Bank President.
What is it about oil that it reveals the worst in us?
I know this bravado management style runs contrary to the cleansing operations you engaged me to carry out at the inception of your administration.
Thank God for Atiku and Fayose
Power at the top is white hot. It is not for the timid. Leadership is also not for those contented to follow the crowd – usually of human sheep. With the 2019 elections only seventeen months away and the two major political associations – the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – in disarray, lacking leadership, Nigeria is in deep trouble.
The presidents we need from 2019
“The future does not belong to those who are content with today….timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects.”Late Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of President Kennedy, both killed by gunmen. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOATIONS, VBQ, p 71.
Restructuring is a dagger in the heart of polity – 2
The wretched nurseries of unceasing discord and the miserable objects of universal pity and contempt”. That was the way Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, one of the founding fathers of America described nations such as ours which were always hotbeds of political upheavals and conflict.
