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: […]
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 […]
