By Dele Sobowale “The only kind of courage and honesty which are permanently useful to good institutions anywhere are those shown by men [justices] who decide all cases with impartial justice, on grounds of conduct and not on grounds of class” – US President Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919. Long before that, another US President, Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, […]

By Dele Sobowale “The greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising each time you fall.” Chief Obafemi Awolowo,     ,VBQ,VBQ p 55 I am sure most people must by now have assumed that the VANGUARD BOOKOF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, has no Nigerian entry; that it is all about foreign insights. But, Awolowo’s observation on success […]

By Dele Sobowale “Man by nature is a political animal” – Aristotle, 343 BC. From personal choice, I have stayed out of Nigerian politics. Only occasionally have I actively participated in the political process – Awolowo’s campaign in 1979, Buhari’s in 2011 and 2015 and the campaign for Christian Governor in Lagos State 2010-2015.  Despite my strong […]

By Dele Sobowale “Better late than never”. That is the age-long consolation for procrastinators who frequently forget or are unaware of the damage unwarranteddelay does to ideas and programmes. After spending the better part of the last two and a half years advocating for Igbo Presidency, I was just on the verge of throwing in […]

By Dele Sobowale “He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make their words good. Confucius, 551-479 BC, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ p 162. Dear Prof, accept my sincere  congratulations on your victory for three reasons which will be discussed shortly. But, first I must commend your tenacity for vying a third time […]

By Dele Sobowale ‘Anambra election won’t hold if Kanu isn’t released – IPOB’. The ultimatum has  been issued by the  Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) through its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in Awka, Anambra State last weekend. As with most non-negotiable demands, it leaves the intended recipients with only two options: comply or […]

By Dele Sobowale “If I join APC or PDP, I have gone to take care of myself. But, the vision I have for the people, I do not think these parties are able to accommodate it; I don’t think they are able to execute it.” Kingsley Moghalu, ex-Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. I […]

By Dele Sobowale “As the world decarbonises, the shift away from oil, gas and coal will pose risk to the value of wealth of countries that are already abundant in  non-renewable energy (for example Nigeria and Angola); but also that of countries with recent oil and gas discoveries (Mozambique, Kenya and Senegal). The risk of […]

By Dele Sobowale Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster” – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, in Beyond Good and Evil. These days, each time the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, is in the news, I weep quietly. The leaders of what started as an honourable struggle for justice […]

By Dele Sobowale “The rate of change in our time is so swift; that an individual of ordinary length of life will be called on to face novel situations which have no parallel in the past.  The fixed person for the fixed duties, who in the old society was such a God-send, will, in the […]