Hajja Bintu Konto: Meet Labour Party’s vice presidential candidate for 2027 election
Hajja Bintu Konto's impressive record of service, particularly in conflict-affected communities across Northern Nigeria, has earned her respect
Whither Nigeria: 6 months to election, where are the presidential aspirants?
ARGUABLY, Nigeria has never had it so bad. Seven months to a presidential election, the aspirants are not known.
Bizarre: A prophet who hasn’t had a bath for 13 years!
How would you react if you heard there was a sane man who hasn’t taken a bath for more than 13 years and is not smelling? Impossible, you might exclaim. may be odd, but it is true. It is the oddity of this story and curiosity that compelled Saturday Vanguard to take a two day trip to Ibadan, Oyo state, in search of this man: one prophet Wale Olagunju, the presiding Bishop of Divine Seed of God Chapel Ministries in Ibadan, Oyo State, who has neither taken a bath nor had sex with his wife since 2001! Testimonies regarding his authenticity abound, but this is from the prophet’s mouth:
For failing to bribe policeman with N200 I was sentenced to death
A shaft of pain knifed through his facial contours as he recounted the grisly experiences he had in prison for more than 23 years.
National confab and ‘feeding bottle federalism’
NOT unexpectedly, the on-going National Conference has been caught in the web of the curse of “Feeding bottle federalism” and it is my prayer that the stalemate be broken by the time this piece is published.
Dancing on the graves of Abacha and the Yar’Aduas (2)
THE phrase “resource control” derived from this manifesto. When the government resorted to crude force to suppress the agitations, the Ijaw groups re-invented the Adaka Boro formula of armed struggle. By the time the elected governments assumed office in 1999, the stakes had been raised to include kidnapping of expatriate oil personnel for ransom and damage of oil facilities.
