Malami: Time to probe properties forfeited under Buhari, by Dele Sobowale
“If you shut up the truth and bury it underground; it will but gather to itself such explosive power, that the day it burst through, it will blow up everything in its way” – Emile Zola, 1840-1902, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 255 In 2014, a series of articles were published on this page titled: […]
The last supper, by Dele Sobowale
“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 […]
Dangote Refinery is here; why are we unhappy? By Dele Sobowale
“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 […]
We thank Governor Sanwo-Olu — Bolaji Jolayemi
“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 […]
AKS, eight cleanest states and South-West, by Dele Sobowale
“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 […]
A tale of five Nigerian councils, by Dele Sobowale
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
Will your business survive at N2,000/US$? by Dele Sobowale
There will always be tomorrow. I learnt that fact from one of the most popular musicians in the 1960s.
Tribute to General Babangida (retd) at 83, by Dele Sobowale
“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 […]
When dream turns to nightmare, by Dele Sobowale
“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 […]
PROTESTERS: Two deaf groups shouting, by Dele Sobowale
“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 […]
Labour leaders agree to deepening poverty, by Dele Sobowale
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his word good” – Confucius, 551-479 B.C., VANGUARD B00K OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 162 A picture, indeed, is worth a thousand words. The photograph published on Friday, July 19, 2024 by the media told the entire story. President Tinubu was smiling broadly; all the Labour […]
