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: […]
Government College Ughelli at 80: Call for celebration, by Dele Sobowale
“Every institution is the lengthened shadow of one man” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882. The philosopher, known as “the sage of Concord”, made no attempt to distinguish between good and bad institutions – those that serve the nation well and advance social progress; and those which lead to destruction. Most people alive in any era […]
Biodun Shobanjo at 80 Africa’s Oglivy, by Dele Sobowale
“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.” Edith Wharton. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville, Biodun Shobanjo has already been described as the Father of Advertising in Africa” by one of those who gathered last week to honour him after turning […]
Pa Afe Babalola (SAN) has my sympathies, by Dele Sobowale
A legal victory, if secured in his life time, might be outweighed by social repercussions which nullify the results, it might be a pyrrhic victory
GCU as metaphor for how Nigerians ruined govt colleges, by Dele Sobowale
Numerous are the streams that lead to social prosperity; but all of them spring from the same source and that is public education. Gaspar Jovellanos, 1744-1811. The British established five Government Colleges – Kings College, KC, Lagos, Government College, Ibadan, GCI, Government College, Umuahia, GCU, and Government College, Ughelli, GCU — to complement the efforts […]
Honour Attah with street names, by Dele Sobowale
“No man was ever honoured for what he received, but for what he gave”— Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, 30th US President. It was twenty years ago, when the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, launched his book titled RESOURCE CONTROL. I was deeply honoured to have been asked to write the Foreword to that […]
