Thoughts and Epiphanies of A Patriot
It was no surprise that First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan relished the emergence of her husband as the sole Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. She is a well-bred, loyal woman who had to be the natural runner up in joy at an occasion where her husband was the celebrant. But Patience is more […]
Those who don’t know what time it is may reach for former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s My Watch. But a quick caveat is fitting: The author is an exemplar of anachronism! He has had his day but he would not retire from contending with fade-out. Anything that can draw the spotlight to his corner is fair – […]
I would be ready to bet the solitary strand of silver on my scalp that if you were socialized well enough in this clime, you have had multiple occasions, in your adult life, to apply the conventional wisdom that says certain questions beget questions. You learned the tact of matching the question with a parallel […]
As one sits through the half hour bulletin and watches the TV screen renew itself with images of Death raking in a bumper harvest across the terrain – ISIS militants upgrading savagery with the playful slitting of throats of people who worship differently in Iraq and Syria ; the symbiotic war of attrition between Israel […]
Last time General Muhammed Buhari wept publicly, it was at the graveside of his third presidential bid. Recently, he had a close shave of crying. Ironically, it was at the resurrection of his ambition after nearly four years. General Buhari had gone, in the company of friends and fans, to the secretariat of his party, […]
I guess you have grown a cubit taller. You are leaner. You have fasted through half of this leap year. You should have gained the model’s photogenic physique by now. Little flesh on skeleton. I guess your face hasn’t over-tanned to some leathery wrinkled hide. It should still bear some resemblance to your last passport. […]
Dimgba Igwe, a rock star of Nigerian tabloid journalism and one of the nation’s finest columnists, set forth on a routine jogging exercise in his Lagos neighbourhood three Saturday mornings ago. And he died. A driver ran over the running Dimgba and accelerated away from his fallen bleeding victim. An innocent fitness work-out, the arms […]
