Dangote Refinery is not the salvation we expected, most certainly, it will not crash fuel price as expected

“Against excellence in another [person], there is no way of defending ourselves except love.” Johann Goethe, VBQ, p 51. This is the third time I have fallen in love with an artist/philosopher long before meeting him. The first and ever abiding one was Uncle Sam; the second ever green Victor Attah. This one coming so […]

“No peace can last or ought to last which does not recognise and accept the principle that governments derive all their powers from the consent of the governed” – US President Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 185. Kaduna State, until a few months ago, was grouped with Katsina, Niger, Benue and […]

“How can productivity work in a place where you have ten people clustering an office, no electricity, trek to about 11-storey building. Labour punches the button to work no matter what” – Dr Tommy Okon, Trade Union Congress, TUC Dr Okon has captured only a fraction of the miseries of millions of “employed” Nigerians. Before reaching […]

Apparently, her divine elevation to the position of First Lady had not diminished her penchant for reaching out and helping the less- privileged

“I didn’t come to look for money and exploit the situation; I came to work. I asked for the votes, and Nigerians gave them to me” – President Bola Tinubu, September 20, 2024. Small correction is needed before getting to the heart of the matter. Nigerians gave candidate Tinubu 33 per cent of their votes; 67 […]

 “Thank you, Dele. Nobody in the last three years has given me so much money as this. The last time one of our old friends gave me money was about three days ago. He gave me 500 naira; and then told me to ‘go and see Dele.’ He gave me your address. I have been […]

“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 You were probably one of those who eagerly awaited the completion of the Dangote Refinery while labouring under the illusion that it will crash the price of fuel nationwide. Welcome to […]

“I hate ingratitude more in a man more than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any other taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood…” – Shakespeare, 1564-1616, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, p 89, online. Mr Bolaji Jolayemi, a trader, is one of the rarest types of Nigerians I have ever encountered in my […]

“8 cleanest states in Nigeria: Akwa Ibom State, Ebonyi, Cross River, Enugu, Delta, Edo, Plateau, Abuja” – Tribune online, August 27, 2024. Even before reading the list of eight, I knew that Akwa Ibom State would come first. Obong Victor Attah, a former Governor of AKS, as well as the Father of Modern Akwa Ibom […]

For ten years, Nigeria had paraded itself in the borrowed robes of biggest economy in Africa,irrespective of how long, every lie has an expiry date

There will always be tomorrow. I learnt that fact from one of the most popular musicians in the 1960s.

“Truth shall make you free; but, first, it shall make you miserable” – Anonymous, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 253. VBQ is available online: Facebook and You Tube. Free Reading. One of the most difficult assignments I have set for myself is to write an annual tribute to General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, given […]

“Men make history, but, not just as they please.” Karl Marx, 1818-1883, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p93 President Bola Tinubu has made history, but, today, it is not the history for which he would want to be remembered. Unfortunately for him, because journalism is the first rough draft of history, nothing recorded today will […]

“Deaf people can do anything hearing people can do except hear” – King Jordan, first deaf President of Gallaudet University, 1988 By the time you read this article, at least two protests would have been underway in response to pervasive hunger and hardship nationwide. Ironically, those protesting against the Federal Government issued the first threat […]