Inspiring a generation – An Olympic dream
On the 27th of July, all eyes were on London. How could they top the Bejing opening four years earlier? The pride of England was at stake and boy, did we know it. Billions watched around the world when the Red Arrows jet formation flew across the stadium spewing the red, white and blue of the Union Jack. The Brits usually are known for their stiff upper lip and are not known to blow their own trumpet.
Shameless man
My father, Abul-Lateef Adisa Animasaun, worked for Chief Okupe for some years until he decided to go on his own. He handled cash and credit for the man that Nigerians knew wide and wide as Agbonmagbe. He was also known as Agbonmagbe Bank.
Agbonmagbe ran a good bank that the Western Regional Government bought it off him and then it became the Wema Bank. Till the end of the time of Chief Okupe, the chief and my father were good friends. My father would seek advice from him. My father died many years ago at 82.
God save this country
By May 29, a new President and new governors will have been sworn in. Of course, new legislators will be flying new flags. They would be in the Senate, the House of Representatives or the states’ Houses of Assembly. If everything goes as planned, that is.
The fighting for mandate to contest for the various parties is still going on. Thanks to the big boys who have wielded the big sticks.
Asiwaju has candour
Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has candour.
He is honest and straight-forward. And, that is what you get from a man who tells you to your face why he would prefer this man to that man.
The rascals according to Jonathan
The English know a rascal as a scoundrel. Nothing more. And you could think of him in any other way you know, not complimentary.
CBN & agricultural loan
I got a letter from Ghanni Nigeria Limited of 24, Taiwo Koya Street, Ilupeju, Lagos State. They are farmers and they are dealing with Riverside Microfinance Bank of Ado-Odo in Ogun State .
Changing position in the new year! (5)
As Almighty as God is, if you do not obey what He says, He cannot do anything for you. For example, if you feel too big to repent, how will God save you? It is true that God is Omnipotent, but He will not permit Himself to save you, until you humble yourself before Him and repent.
Who is Chukwuma Nwabara?
I doubt there is someone like Rev. Chukwuma Nwabara in Kubwa, Abuja. If he exists, he is trying to call attention to himself. He is probably using the same tricks like the little-known American priest who called attention to himself that he would burn the Qur’an.
Of course, he did not burn the Qur’an and America and the world listened. He came to the notice of the American President.
Baba Mogba – 1
Dele Alake, former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy went home to vie for the post of senator in Ekiti Central Senatorial District.
Need for transparency, internal democracy
Primaries of the parties will have peaked by the end of this week. It was a rehashed of the parties. From Port Harcourt to Kaura Namoda; from Lagos to Maiduguri there were uprisings: in Lagos and, in Abeokuta; in Ibadan and Enugu.
For Dora, the sky is the limit
Dora Akunyili turned a low profile job at the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to a high profile one. She also went on to hold her own at the Federal Ministry of Information. She was one of the best known ministers of the realm. Before that, she had wanted to be a Vice-President of Nigeria.
