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 […]
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 […]
