The president’s disappointing October 1 message, by Adekunle Adekoya
NOT a few Nigerians, especially me, expected that there would be something to hold on to when the President made his speech commemorating our National Day, October 1, yesterday morning. As a newspaperman, I read the message more than three times, looking for that strand of a message that could give hope that at the […]
The death of travel
By Kunle Adekoya THE word, travel, describes an activity. It is a construct, which when it passes through our sensory frontiers, becomes an experience. For those of us who are non-native speakers and users of the English language, travel is also a noun, a transitive verb, and an intransitive verb as well. The commonest type […]
Apongbon Bridge fire: Has governance broken down?
By Adekunle Adekoya WEDNESDAY morning, residents of Lagos, and the rest of the world woke to the news of a fire outbreak under the bridge at Apongbon, on Lagos Island. The Apongbon bridge, actually the landward extension of Eko Bridge flies over the intersection of Broad Street and Apongbon Street, and is a beehive of […]
Crises, when govt fails to honour agreements
By Adekunle Adekoya At the moment, nothing seems to be working in the country. Well over a month ago, what seemed to be an isolated incident has ballooned into a major crisis that is threatening the nation’s economic jugular. Mid-February, a power outage occurred when two units at the Egbin Power plant suffered damage as […]
Defections and special purpose politics
By Adekunle Adekoya There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) In the July 9, 2021 edition of this column, I wrote about political parties being special purpose vehicles — a gathering of strange bedfellows coming […]
Milking and bleeding Nigeria
By Adekunle Adekoya Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” — Song by The Brain Cell I feel very depressed, utterly despondent, totally dejected that some people can be thinking of certain things. One of such things was a bill that proposed life pension for the top four leaders of the National Assembly. For clarity, […]
