A fight to the finish in Osun, by Rotimi Fasan
In concluding my piece here two weeks ago on the Osun State governorship election that is scheduled to hold on Saturday this week, I had suggested that Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke had successfully skirted around the political landmine represented by the federal might that could have been deployed against him to threaten his chances in […]
Coward of the county
THE involvement of the name of Innocent Idibia (Tu Face or 2Baba) in the mobilisation towards the just-concluded #OneVoiceNigeria protests against bad governance and its painful offshoots on the people the country helped hype the event.
On justice Ononghen
THE late American humorist, Art Buchwald said about the ‘law’ that “the more complicated lawmakers make it, the more work it generates for lawyers”. Had the ‘Ten Commandments’ been written by a lawyer, he said, “Moses could never have carried them on a stone tablet”. It would have been so voluminous, Moses would have had to haul it “down from Mount Sinai on to the Rock of Gibraltar”. Besides, such ‘divine judicature’ sullied by the pedantic pen of man, would also have been so verbose, Moses himself would have had to require an encyclopedia or concordance of ‘words’ and ‘phrases’ to decode.
All the noise about megawatts
THE subject for today is Electricity. When it comes to considering whether this is a lesson in Physics or English Language, the latter will be easily preferred, given the fact that this writer has two left hands on issues of electricity.
When protest meets protest
A responsible government may in this situation in which we have found ourselves pay attention to the narratives coming from its supporters and critics
Why can’t Osinbajo be President?
In most developed societies, it would be near impossible for the President to be incapacitated for a prolonged period of time without the transfer of powers becoming total and complete
