Last Thursday, Kwara people evicted their ‘’Leader’’, Bukola Saraki, from the Eid-el Kabir prayer ground. They pelted him with rocks and sachets of pure water and taunted him with screams of ‘’Thief! Thief! Thief!’’ It was a spontaneous denouncement from folks who ordinarily should be star-struck by the Godfather’s presence. His
Month: September 2015
Dr. Bukola Saraki’s Self-Diagnosis
It’s blindingly obvious that the Bukola Saraki who was docked at the Code of Conduct Tribunal Abuja on Tuesday, 22nd September, 2015, is weakened, diminished and reduced to a hollow husk. His stint as Senate President has become politically untenable and morally intolerable. But, rather than embrace this fact of
Oluchi and Her Cannibal Country
Tomorrow, Friday, 18th September 2005, a needless burial will take place in Aku, Enugu State. Oluchi Anekwe will be lowered into the bowels of a moist, red earth. The barely 22 year old, first-class bound 300-level student of University of Lagos, electrocuted when a loosely hanging high tension wire fell
Nigerians Need Integrity Transplant
President Muhammadu Buhari threw the Western press a curveball with the lean holding he declared as his material worth. His means was incredibly small; a counterpoint to the fabulous fortune of the klepotcrats that run the rest of Sub-Sahara Africa. Washington Post called him "dirt-poor" –in an awed, honorific tribute. But
An Illiterate Proposes, Governor Fayose Disposes…
Last week, Ayo Fayose, the freak of nature that is the Governor of Ekiti State, perpetrated his most outlandish joke yet. He installed a self-confessed illiterate, one Olatunde Afolayan, in the vacancy of the caretaker chairman of Moba Local Government Area. And the joke stood! Fayose pulled the stunt at the inauguration