From begging to banditry: Revolt of the almajiris, by Dele Sobowale
“No revolution is the fault of the people but the fault of the government” – Johann Goethe, 1749-1832, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ. A revolution is underway in the Northern states of Nigeria. The downtrodden, constituting 99.9 per cent of the population, hitherto docile beggars, saying “rankadede” to the privileged 0.1 per cent are sick and […]
Rivers emergency declaration is a national ill-wind, by Dele Sobowale
“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies” – Robert Greene, author of 48 LAWS OF POWER. I pray that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, aka, BAT, will live much longer. Irrespective of whether he secures a second term or not in 2027, there was one meeting and a decision arising from […]
Trump, Musk, Power, Money and Madness, by Dele Sobowale
“Power and money of course do drive people crazy. So why shouldn’t people gain power and wealth through being crazy?” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005. America is in the grips of two absolutely crazy men who have acquired power and wealth by being screw balls. The entire world, America included, will pay a heavy price for the […]
Nigeria and the curse of oil, by Dele Sobowale
“Failure is not fatal; but, failure to change might be” – John Wooden. Nothing substantiates the Pareto Principle better than the structure of the Nigerian economy which is composed of the vital few organisations and the trivial many. According to Pareto principle, twenty percent of our activities account for eighty per cent of our results. Four […]
Lagos and the slide to anarchy, by Dele Sobowale
“In every community, there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek power” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005. The chaos experienced in Lagos State government goes beyond the ordinary political disturbance nations occasionally experience. […]
Pa Adebanjo, Clark just reset retirement age, by Dele Sobowale
“Old age is now a moving concept” – American Sociology Professor, 1967. It was in my third year as an undergraduate, when taking a course on demographics, that Professor Epstein made the remark to introduce us to demographics – defined as “the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which […]
