Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the retired General and head of the 1985-93 military junta who styled himself  ‘President’  has again intruded into our national consciousness. On Thursday, February 20, 2025, the General who was disgraced out of office 32 years ago,  unleashed  an unguided missile he called an autobiography. Titled: ‘A Journey In Service’, it was a failed […]

The Africa Union, AU, 38th Summit from February 15-16, 2025 promised to be challenging as the body had to elect a new Chairperson for the African Union Commission, AUC, which is its engine room. The Commission is the AU Secretariat and its Chair, its chief executive officer. In the last eight years, that seat had been […]

Ayo Adebanjo, 96, was a path through which Nigerian politics could be traced. The politics of the country was mainly about the ruling elites in military fatigue or civil dress ruling at the centre, and conscientious patriots opposing from the sidelines or working from the margins. Adebanjo belonged to the latter.  At 14, in 1943, he […]

There was a popular song when I was a child titled ‘Come and see American wonder.’ It was not so much about the celebration of the perceived wonders of the United States, US. It was more about the incredulous things emanating from ‘God’s own country’. Some of us thought that as far as the US was […]

Portable is the stage name of Street-Hop rapper, Habeb Okikiola Badmus.   He is crass   in appearance and, ill-mannered    with apparent gaps in thought. Exhibiting outlandish behaviour, he divides his hair into parts each with a loud colour that gives the appearance of a cockerel head. The tattooed Portable who styles himself as the leader of […]