Condolences to a class act, by Donu Kogbara
Many years ago, I used to go to the Mayr Clinic, a spa that overlooks a beautiful lake in Carinthia, a mountainous part of Austria. It’s a perfect place in which to rest, eat sparingly, focus on your health, go for long walks, inhale fresh Alpine air and be pampered. The Mayr is a modest […]
Time we had a retirement age for politicians, by Muyiwa Adetiba
As the heat generated by the presidential contest between incumbent President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, his predecessor was spreading across the globe, I asked an old friend based in Atlanta USA, whom she was going to vote for. I wasn’t quite prepared for her answer which was short but decisive. ‘Neither’ she said. “Why” […]
Aiyedatiwa for Ademulegun, by Emeka Obasi
Flight Lieutenant Emanuel Adebiyi Thomas was the first West African to be commissioned as an officer of the Royal Air Force. On January 12, 1945, he died in a plane crash in Brecon Beacons, South of Wales. His bones lie in Barth Cemetery, Somerset, England. Governor Lucky Aiyedetiwa of Ondo State is a January 12 […]
ODEGBAMI: Allen Onyema – lifting ‘Dream Team’, Keshi, Amusan and Ajunwa!
In the midst of all the ongoing brouhaha that has held Nigerian football by the jugular for some weeks, there are some cheering news, some bright stars in the darkness! I can understand why his passion for sport is irrepressible. He was an all-round athlete in his student days at the Federal Government College, Ughelli, […]
Backstory of Osun Poll, and What’s Next for Adeleke, by Azu Ishiekwene
The money that politicians didn’t spend in Osun during the August 15 governorship election was the money they didn’t have and couldn’t steal. All kinds of figures have been bandied about, in hundreds of millions and billions. It’s difficult to say if these are over- or underestimations. But damn, it was some cash! Credible sources suggest […]
Concerns about the Ogoni dialogue process and the proposed resumption of oil production in Ogoniland, by Donu Kogbara
Chief Lesi Maol is the President of KAGOTE, the Ogoni equivalent of Afenifere, Ohanaeze and the Arewa Consultative Forum. Maol, a highly successful businessman and generous philanthropist who has donated billions to worthy causes in Rivers State, also happens to be a member of the Ogoni Dialogue Committee (ODC), which was inaugurated by the Federal […]
