NYSC kidnap as metaphor for decline into beastiality, by Dele Sobowale
“NYSC kidnap: N950m ransom throws families into panic” – News Report, October 3, 2026. For the parents of 19 graduates traveling from Ibadan, Oyo State to Owerri, Imo State, there is nothing happy about the month of October. President Tinubu’s Independence Day address to the nation deliberately excluded insecurity among the matters on his national […]
Tinubu, you are forgetting Lagos, by Dele Sobowale
“Charity begins at home.” Dear President Bola Tinubu, from records available to me, you have always claimed Lagos Island in Lagos State as your home. If that is true, your visit to Lagos during the Yuletide in December did not reflect it. You came with a battalion of soldiers – mostly non-Lagosians – like a conqueror; […]
Tinubu and Nigerians on death row, by Dele Sobowale
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors for men to take their exits” – John Webster, 1580-1652. This article could easily have been titled SCARCE DRUGS, HIGH PRICES KILLING NIGERIANS PREMATURELY and it would just have been appropriate. But, since the end of everything is death, we might as well confront the issue head […]
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 […]
