Independence address, endless promises no specifics
By Dele Sobowale Bayo Onanuga, the Senior Special Adviser to the President, accused critics of writing their responses without reading Tinubu’s address. That is certainly not true about me. In fact, the address was read to me by Uncle Sam, the Publisher of Vanguard, in his house – while asking for my comments on a […]
FUEL SCARCITY AND BAD LEADERSHIP
By Dele Sobowale “As a people normally gets the government it deserves, so a society normally receives the punishment it asks for.” Robert Ardrey in SOCIAL CONTRACT. Anarchy reigns in the Nigerian fuel sector today. Nigerians were warned in 2018 when President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo launched their re-election campaign on the dubious platform of […]
FG employees, contractors, creditors headed for rough times
By Dele Sobowale “Tis is not the eating, tis not the drinking that is blamed; but, the excess.” John Selden, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ p 52. President Buhari’s government as well as those depending on it for their monthly stipend are in for difficult times in the last five months of this administration. For […]
We are in big trouble and no leader in sight
By Dele Sobowale “One third of the world economy will enter recession –IMF. Report, January3, 2023. “World Bank downgrades Nigeria’s growth forecast to 2.9%. Report, January 12, 2023 While most of the world’s Presidents and Prime Ministers are now deeply worried by the projections from the IMF and the World Bank about inevitable global recession […]
Buhari, Emefiele, and cabal plot to seize CBN
By Dele Sobowale “In the absence of the cash, there must be the lash.”Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, Black American Nationalist. It is always sad when what would have been a great career ends in petty politics. It is a matter of cash. The attempt to arrest theGovernor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN by the […]
When presidential best is not good enough
By Dele Sobowale “We are big in size and population, facing many challenges, but in many areas, we are trying. In seven-and-half years, I have done my best” – Muhammadu Buhari, December 14, 2022, USA Poor Buhari, his last five and half months in office will certainly deflate his ego; based on self-deceit. When he […]
