How Niger Delta was underdeveloped by its leaders, by Dele Sobowale
“Niger Delta got $160bn in 27 yrs, yet remains underdeveloped – Aig-Imoukhuede” – VANGUARD, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026. “Every country has the government it deserves” – Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821. Thank God for Nigerians like Aig-Imoukhuede who occasionally seizes the opportunity to tell Nigerians the truth we hate to hear. He was the Keynote Address Speaker […]
Ministry of Humanitarian Resources metaphor for Buhari/APC, By Dele Sobowale
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies” – Dr John Arbuthnot, 1667-1735. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is close to the graveyard; mostly because Nigerians got sick and tired of the unfulfilled promises and outright lies the leaders of the party peddled for sixteen years. In a saner society, former President […]
Maryam Babangida 1948-2009, fourteen years after, By Dele Sobowale
“It matters not how a [woman] dies, but how [she] lives…” – Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 Johnson left many in teresting statements carved on stones. Among them was the one which startled me at first: “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” The second is the one above. Once you are alive, the only […]
Asiwaju Oluwole Oludaisi Aina of Iresiland, By Dele Sobowale
“When Fortune means to men the most good, she looks upon them with a threatening eye” – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Daisi was born to succeed; but, he suffered greatly first. Our paths crossed in North Brewery Limited, Kano, in 1981. I was a young Marketing Manager, who had dared to apply for that position from the […]
Tinubu renewed or delayed hope? By Dele Sobowale
“History does not repeat itself; man does” – Harvard Prof. Barbara Tuchman My heart sank after reading the summary of the 2024 Budget and the promise by the Tinubu government to create a $1 trillion economy in ten years. Now, I am inclined to believe that Nigeria will never become the global economic power we […]
Hamas-Israel war: Remember who started it, By Dele Sobowale
“Wisdom in people consists in the anticipation of consequences” – Norman Cousins, 1915-1990. Approximately five years ago, Lagos Island was in the vice grip of gang wars brought about by disputes over control of various sectors of our Island by unemployed and often violent youths. Several attempts were made by elders to bring about peace […]
