Obasanjo, Osoba, AD, and 2003 old men stale stuff, by Dele Sobowale
“The loser at the hazard, when the game breaks up/ Sadder, sorrier lingers on alone Replays each throw and drinks of wisdom’s cup” – Aligheri Dante, 1265-1321, in Purgatory. For me, this is one of the most painful articles I have ever had to write in 39 years of writing for VANGUARD. In a fight between […]
Arrest and detention of justices: A legal and moral dillema confronts us
The same Justice Brandeis had been credited with saying that “Difficult cases make bad law.” The raid on the houses of Justices last weekend is perhaps the most difficult case most Nigerians have ever had to comment upon. For me, it was a heart-breaker – the sort of thing you wish would never happen. Yet, you also know that unless the veil of secrecy covering corruption in the judiciary is lifted, there will not be much progress on corruption elsewhere. Unless Nigerian courts, once again, become the hope of the common man we will get nowhere.
Why budgets fail in Nigeria
The Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, was conceived by the international community, through the World Bank, WB, and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, as a planning tool designed to enable governments to consider several programmes which cannot fit easily into an annual budget.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at crossroads politically
This time last year, he was the toast of Nigerian politics; the man who had stitched together the contraption called the All Progressives Congress, APC, almost single handedly, to score the first major upset of a sitting African President. No exaggeration of his political sagacity and his brilliance and strategist was regarded as excessive. He was the all-conquering hero and Buhari was just the tool for the realisation of his ambition to rule Aso Rock.
EFCC and ex-President’s wife in cat and mouse game
Karl Marx, the author of immortal “Communist Manifesto”, which set the world ablaze in the 19th and 20th centuries, wrote about more than economics. He was also a brilliant historian. His observation about individuals and history is pertinent when we turn our minds to the current legal confrontation between the former President’s wife and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Sunmi Smart-Cole: Artist behind a camera at 75
Professor Soyinka’s comment can be found at the back of an album which must be a rare collection of artworks presented as photography. It takes one to know one; and Soyinka, an incomparable artist himself, is the sort of person to appreciate genius in an artist operating in another medium. The album is titled SUNMI’s LENS – medium BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE; and I have a copy on account of despair and idleness.
